Statistical highlights: India v Australia, 2nd Test, Day 1

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Statistical highlights of Day 1 in the second Test between India [ Images ] and Australia [ Images ], in Sydney [ Images ], on Wednesday.

# Adam Gilchrist [ Images ] emulated Rahul Dravid's [ Images ] feat of appearing in most consecutive Tests (94) since making his debut. After his Test debut against Pakistan at Brisbane [ Images ] on November 5,1999, Gilchrist has played 94 games in a row.

# Gilchrist's 94 Test appearances in succession for Australia since making his debut is a record by any player for one country, eclipsing Dravid's 93 consecutive appearances for India. Actually, Dravid had played one Test for World XI at Sydney in 2005-06 during his sequence of 94 Tests.

#  Phil Jaques got his first duck in Test cricket and missed becoming the fourth player to record seven successive fifties, held jointly by Everton Weekes (WI), Andy Flower [ Images ] (Zim.) and Shivnarine Chanderpaul [ Images ] (WI).

# Andrew Symonds [ Images ] (137 not out) posted his second Test century -- his career-best is 156 against England [ Images ] at MCG in 2006/07.

# Symonds's previous highest at SCG was 48 against England in 2006-07, while his previous best against India was 44 in the Melbourne [ Images ] Test last week.

# Brad Hogg [ Images ] (79) posted his career-best score -- his maiden fifty, eclipsing his previous highest of 35 not out against India at Melbourne last week.

# The seventh wicket partnership of 173 between Andrew Symonds and Brad Hogg is an Australian record against India, eclipsing the 108 between Steve Waugh [ Images ] and Shane Warne [ Images ] at Adelaide in 1999-00.

# The aforesaid stand is also a seventh wicket record at SCG, obliterating the 160 between Richie Benaud and Graham McKenzie for Australia against South Africa [ Images ] in 1963-64.

# Ricky Ponting's [ Images ] 39th fifty in Tests is his fifth against India.

# Ponting extended his record for most runs at SCG to 1281 at an average of 80.06, including five centuries and five fifties in 13 Tests.

# Both Harbhajan and Anil Kumble [ Images ] have now dismissed Ponting seven times. Only England's Darren Gough has dismissed him eight times -- most times any bowler has dismissed Ponting.

# Adam Gilchrist, after posting 104 at Bangalore in 2004-05, is without a fifty in his last ten innings against India.

# Sachin Tendulkar [ Images ], for the fourth time in his career, has held 3 catches in an innings -- his previous three instances being against Pakistan at Karachi in 2005-06; vs West Indies [ Images ] at Bridgetown in 1996-97 and vs. New Zealand [ Images ] at Bangalore in 1995-96.

# Australia's 376 for 7 is the second highest score in a day's play against India, next only to their 400 for five on the first day of the 2003-04 Adelaide Test.

# Australia's aforesaid total is also the second highest score in a day's play at SCG, next only to their 494 for 6 against South Africa on the first day of the 1910-11 Test.

# Rudra Pratap Singh (4/108) produced his best bowling performance against Australia, bettering his 1 for 50 at Melbourne last week.

# For the third time in his career, R P Singh claimed 4 wickets in an innings -- his previous two instances being 5 for 59 vs. England at Lord's in 2007 and 4 for 89 against Pakistan at Faisalabad in 2005-06.