Gautam Gambhir's wicket was Brett Lee's first Test wicket in India.
Tendulkar (when on 4) completed 500 runs at Bangalore. He now has scored 500 plus runs on 6 different Indian venues - Chennai (736), Mumbai (734) Nagpur (679), Kolkatta 637, Delhi (528) and now Bangalore (509). Among the Indians Sunil Gavaskar too has scored 500 plus at 6 different Test venues. In fact Gavaskar had scored at least 500 runs on every single venue he played on Indian soil.
Sachin Tendulkar, during his brief innings of 13, became the highest run-scorer on Indian soil, taking his run-aggregate to 5,069 at an average of 54.50, including 16 centuries and 21 fifties in 64 Tests. He thus surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's tally of 5,067 runs at an average of 50.16 in 65 Tests.
Rahul Dravid (51) made his 53rd fifty in Test Cricket - his 11th against Australia.
The fifty was Dravid’s only second at his home ground in 12 innings. Interestingly both his fifties have come against Australia. In 2004-05 he had made 60 off 188 balls.
Mitchell Johnson (4-62) produced his best figures against India, bettering his 4 for 86 at Perth in January this year.
VVS Laxman registered his second duck against Australia - his tenth overall in Test Cricket.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (9) is yet to score a fifty against Australia in 9 innings. His highest against Australia has been 38 at Perth in January this year.
The wicket of MS Dhoni was Michael Clarke’s 17th in Test cricket. Interestingly 11 of them have come against India alone. He has the figures of 6 for 9 (at Mumbai in 2004-05), 3 for 5 (at Sydney in 2007-08),1 for 39 (at Adelaide in 2007-08) and 1 for 35 in this game.
Harbhajan Singh (54) registerd his first fifty on Indian soil.His previous highest in India was 42 against Australia at Bangalore in 2004-05.
The 24 byes conceded by Brad Haddin are the maximum by any Australian keeper in India. The previous record was on the name of Adam Gilchrist who conceded 19 byes in first innings of Chennai Test in 2000-01.
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