Statistical highlights: India vs Australia: 2nd Test, Hyderabad

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Fourth day's highlights:

# India's triumph by an innings and 135 runs is their second biggest win over Australia in Tests - the biggest being by an innings and 219 runs at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in March 1998.

# The aforesaid win is India's sixth biggest in Tests - the biggest being by an innings and 239 runs against Bangladesh at Dhaka in 2007.

# Overall, India have won four Tests against Australia by an innings - one each at Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Sydney.

# India have won 22, lost 38 and drawn 23 (Tied 1) out of 84 played against Australia - winning % 26.19.

# For the first time in Test cricket, a team has lost by an innings after declaring voluntarily in the first innings.

# In the 1981 Leeds Test against England, Australia had declared their first innings at 401 for nine innings and lost by 18 runs.

# Mahendra Singh Dhoni, as captain, has won all six Tests against Australia in India.  Australia have lost six successive overseas Tests to a captain for the first time.

# Dhoni is the only Indian captain to have recorded six wins against Australia in Tests.

# Dhoni, with 22 Test wins out of 45 (winning % 48.88), has set an Indian record for most victories as captain, bettering Sourav Ganguly's tally of 21 victories in 49 (winning % 42.85).

# India have taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.

# Australia's 131 is their joint seventh lowest total against India in Tests - their lowest being 83 at Melbourne in February 1981.

# After failing to take a wicket in his last four innings - second innings against England at Nagpur, both the innings against Australia at Chepauk and the first innings at Hyderabad, Ishant Sharma has claimed his first wicket in the present series.

# Shane Watson has averaged 19.25 in the present series - 77 runs in four innings.  In his last twelve Test innings, his only fifty is 83 against Sri Lanka at Melbourne in December 2012.

# Watson, as a batsman, has produced mediocre performance since January 2011, aggregating 688 in 26 innings (14 Tests), including four fifties.  During the said period, his overseas average is just 23.78 - 452 runs in 19 innings (ten Tests).

# Michael Clarke is averaging 59.29 in first team innings and 42.63 in second team innings.

# Despite his failure in the second innings, Clarke is averaging 69.18 as captain - his run-aggregate being 2560 in 40 innings (23 Tests).

# For the first time an Indian bowler has clean bowled Michael Clarke in both the innings of a Test match - the bowler being Ravindra Jadeja.  The only previous instance when a bowler had clean bowled Clarke was Dale Steyn - Cape Town in March 2009.

# Ed Cowan (44) has recorded his highest score in seven innings - his last Test fifty being 56 against Sri Lanka at Hobart in December 2012.

# Ravindra Jadeja's match figures of six for 66 are his career-best in a Test match.

# Ravichandran Ashwin's tally of 81 wickets (ave.28.93) is the most by an Indian bowler after 14 Tests.  Only two bowlers have bagged more wickets after 14 Tests than Ashwin - T.Richardson (England) - 88 and C.T.B. Turner (Australia) - 83. 

# Ashwin's third five-wicket haul (5/63) against Australia is his eighth in Tests.

# In five Tests against Australia, Ashwin has claimed 27 wickets at an average of 32.11.

# Ashwin has completed 50 wickets in a winning cause - 53 (ave.19.67) in seven Tests.  His tally includes seven instances of five wickets in an innings and two instances of ten wickets in a match.

# The two leading wicket-takers in the first two Tests in the present series are Ashwin (18 at 16.77) and Jadeja (11 at 19.00).

# Cheteshwar Pujara has received his second Man of the Match award - his first against Australia.  Both his double century knocks have earned him the Man of the Match awards.


Man of the Match: Cheteshwar Pujara for his brilliant double-hundred, which helped set the stage for the win.
Brief scores:
At the end of Day 4: Australia 2nd innings 131 all out in 67 overs (Ed Cowan 44, R Ashwin 5/63, R Jadeja 3/33)
At the end of Day 3: India 1st innings 503 all out in 154.1 overs (C Pujara 204, M Vijay 167, MS Dhoni 44, G Maxwell 4/127, X Doherty 3/131); Australia 2nd innings 74/2 in 32 overs (Ed Cowan 26*,  S Watson 9*, R Ashwin 2/42)
At the end of Day 2: India 1st innings 311/1 in 93 overs (M Vijay 129*, C Pujara 162*)
At the end of Day 1: Australia 1st innings 237/9 decl. in 85 overs (M Clarke 95, M Wade 67, R Jadeja 3/33, B Kumar 3/53); India 1st innings 5/0 in 3 overs (M Vijay 0*, V Sehwag 4*)

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