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The Australia national cricket team toured India in the 2004–05 season and played a four-match Test series, during October and November 2004, against India, Australia winning the series 2–1 with one match drawn, their first series win on Indian soil since their 1969–70 tour.
Shane Warne was the first to take both 600 and 700 Test wickets, in 2005 and 2006 respectively. [16] [17] Warne's haul of 96 wickets in 2005 is the highest total in a calendar year, ahead of the 90 wickets taken the following year by Muralidaran, although he played fewer innings. [18]
Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960–61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
West Indies' Courtney Walsh is the first fast bowler to take 500 Test wickets. He is sixth on the list of bowlers with most wickets, with 519 wickets. James Anderson of England is fourth on the list with 600 wickets as of January 2021. [108] [109] [110]
Highest partnerships by wicket [14] Runs Wicket Players Match Date 244: 1st Bob Simpson (225) & Bill Lawry (119) Australia v. England: 28 Jan 1966 361: 2nd David Warner (335*) & Marnus Labuschagne (162) Australia v. Pakistan: 29 Nov 2019 341: 3rd Eddie Barlow (201) & Graeme Pollock (175) South Africa v. Australia: 24 Jan 1964 386: 4th
The first Test hat-trick was recorded on 2 January 1879, in only the third Test match to take place, by the Australia pace bowler Fred Spofforth, nicknamed "The Demon Bowler", [2] who dismissed three England batters with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The most recent Test hat-trick was taken by Gus Atkinson in December ...
The test was tightly contested, setting up a fifth (final) day in which the match could have been won by either team, but was most likely to be drawn. The match featured centuries by batsmen on every day of the match. Three four-wicket hauls were achieved and Brett Lee achieved a five-wicket haul in the first innings.
The first was the final Test of the 1999–2000 series at Antigua Recreation Ground where the West Indies ran down the target of 216 runs in the final inning and the second happened in the opening test of the 2021 series at Sabina Park where the last wicket pair scored the last 17 runs to chase down 168.