Following are the statistical highlights of the third day's play in the first Test between India and Australia in Melbourne on Saturday.
# Matthew Hayden completed 8,000 runs in 92 Tests -- 8003 runs at an average of 53.00. He is the fifth Australian player and the 18th in Test annals to have amassed 8000 or more runs.
# Allan Border (11174 in 156 Tests) heads the chart for Australia, followed by Steve Waugh (10927 in 168), Ricky Ponting (9515 in 113), Mark Waugh (8029 in 128) and Hayden (8003 in 92).
# Phil Jaques (66 & 51) for the second successive Test, has recorded 50-plus in each innings of a Test match. With six successive fifty-plus innings - Jaques has equalled an Australian record for most 50-plus innings.
# Harbhajan Singh (3/101) produced his best performance in Australia, bettering his 1 for 101 in the second innings of the 2003-04 Brisbane Test.
# Harbhajan, with Ponting's wicket, has completed his 250 wickets. He is the fourth Indian bowler to have captured 250 wickets or more in Test cricket. Anil Kumble (591) tops the table, followed by Kapil Dev (434), Bishan Singh Bedi (266) and Harbhajan Singh (251).
# Michael Clarke (73) posted his 7th fifty - his third against India.
# Kumble, with Clarke's wicket, took his tally to 49 (ave.29.40) in 10 Tests in 2007. Both Muralitharan (49 in 8 Tests at 22.30 runs apiece) and Kumble share the record for most wickets in 2007.
# With Jaques' wicket as 'caught and bowled', his 31st in this fashion, Kumble has equalled Muttiah Muralitharan's record of 31 'caught and bowled' dismissals.
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