Statistical highlights of the fourth and final Test between India and Australia at the Adelaide Oval on Monday.
# Brett Lee has registered his career best bowling performance in a Test series -- 24 wickets at 22.58 runs apiece. He had twice captured 20 wickets in a series, both times against England in 2005 and 2006-07.
# Sachin Tendulkar tops the batting charts with a tally of 493 runs in four Tests at an average of 70.42. A look at the top batsmen and bowlers.
Leading run-getters:
| Batsman | M | I | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | 100 | 50 | SR |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 4 | 8 | 1 | 493 | 154* | 70.42 | 2 | 2 | 65.64 |
| Matthew Hayden | 3 | 5 | - | 410 | 124 | 82.00 | 3 | - | 62.21 |
| Andrew Symonds | 4 | 7 | 1 | 410 | 162* | 68.33 | 1 | 2 | 72.31 |
| VVS Laxman | 4 | 8 | - | 366 | 109 | 45.75 | 1 | 2 | 53.19 |
| Michael Clarke | 4 | 7 | - | 316 | 118 | 45.14 | 1 | 2 | 53.65 |
| Michael Hussey | 4 | 7 | 1 | 292 | 145* | 48.66 | 1 | - | 47.71 |
| Virender Sehwag | 2 | 4 | - | 286 | 151 | 71.50 | 1 | 1 | 64.26 |
| Ricky Ponting | 4 | 7 | - | 268 | 140 | 38.28 | 1 | 1 | 57.63 |
Leading wicket-takers:
| Bowler | M | Overs | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Best | 5WI | SR |
| Brett Lee | 4 | 186.5 | 542 | 24 | 22.58 | 5/119 | 1 | 46.7 |
| A Kumble | 4 | 181.3 | 689 | 20 | 34.45 | 5/84 | 1 | 54.4 |
| M Johnson | 4 | 168.1 | 530 | 16 | 33.12 | 4/86 | - | 63.0 |
| RP Singh | 4 | 117.5 | 507 | 13 | 39.00 | 4/68 | - | 54.3 |
| Stuart Clark | 4 | 146.0 | 395 | 14 | 28.21 | 4/28 | - | 62.5 |
| A Symonds | 4 | 91.0 | 247 | 9 | 27.44 | 3/51 | - | 60.6 |
# Australia's triumph by 2-1 is their sixth series win against India in Australia, retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
# The last drawn Test between India and Australia was played in Chennai in October 2004.
# Anil Kumble lost his first Test series as skipper. He had registered a 1-0 series win against Pakistan in India last year in his first series as captain.
# Virender Sehwag (151 off 236 balls) recorded his third century against Australia, his 13th century overall and his first in the second innings.
# Sehwag has produced seven centuries on foreign soil in 32 Tests and six in 22 Tests in India.
# While batting in the first innings, Sehwag has averaged 64.18 -- 3466 in 54 innings, including 12 hundreds and 9 fifties. His second innings average is 28.67-- 975 runs in 37 innings, including one century and four fifties.
# Sehwag has amassed 1000 runs against Australia in 11 Tests -- 10 Tests for India and one for ICC World XI innings.
# Sehwag, for the first time in his career, has recorded a hundred and a fifty in the same Test match.
# Sehwag (63 + 151) became the third Indian batsman to post a hundred-plus and a fifty-plus at Adelaide. Vijay Hazare (116 and 145) was the first to achieve the distinction in 1947-48. Rahul Dravid had made 233 and 72 not out in 2003-04.
# Sehwag has taken his Test batting average to 50.00 -- 4441 runs at an average of 50.46, including 13 centuries and 13 fifties in 54 Tests at a strike rate of 74.89.
# Sehwag's last nine hundreds have been 150-plus.
# Tendulkar's tally of 493 is the third best by an Indian in a Test series in Australia. Dravid had top scored for India with 619 at an average of 123.80 while VVS Laxman had missed the feat by six runs -- 494 runs at an average of 82.33, both in the 2003-04 series.
# Thanks to Ganguly's below average performance in the last four innings (9 and 0 at Perth and 7 and 18 at Adelaide), his batting average in the series fell below 30 (29.37) -- 235 in eight innings, including two fifties.
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