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Stats Analysis

The second quickest Test ton by a keeper

Stats highlights at the end of the second day of the first Test between Australia and Pakistan at Dubai

Bishen Jeswant
Bishen Jeswant
23-Oct-2014
Sarfraz Ahmed has scored 508 Test runs in 2014, more than any other keeper-batsman in this period  •  Getty Images

Sarfraz Ahmed has scored 508 Test runs in 2014, more than any other keeper-batsman in this period  •  Getty Images

80 Number of balls in which Sarfraz Ahmed got to his century, the fourth fastest by a Pakistan batsman. The record is held by Majid Khan who scored a hundred off 74 balls against New Zealand in 1976. Shahid Afridi has scored two 78-ball hundreds. Across countries, this is the 18th fastest century in Tests (where balls-faced data is available).
1 Number of wicketkeepers who have made a faster Test hundred than Sarfraz. Adam Gilchrist scored a 57-ball hundred versus England at Perth in 2006. Safraz's innings was the 12th time a wicketkeeper posted a 100-plus score at a 100-plus strike rate in Tests, with seven of those being by Gilchrist.
5 Number of consecutive 50-plus scores by Sarfraz. The Pakistan record is six consecutive innings, jointly held by Zaheer Abbas, Mohammad Yousuf and Misbah-ul-Haq.
6 Number of consecutive 50-plus scores for David Warner. His last six Test scores are 75*, 145, 135, 66, 70 and 115. The record for the most consecutive 50-plus scores is seven, jointly held by Andy Flower, Everton Weekes, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Kumar Sangakkara.
454 Number of runs that Pakistan posted in their first innings. This was their second highest score against Australia in the last 20 years. The only time that Pakistan scored more was when then posted 580 for 9 declared, at Peshawar, in 1998.
25 Number of years since all five of Pakistan's batsmen from Nos. 3 to 7 made 50-plus scores in a Test innings outside Pakistan. In all, Pakistan have done this four times.
97 The partnership strike rate during Pakistan's sixth wicket stand, of 124 from 128 balls, between Asad Shafiq and Sarfraz Ahmed. This is the fourth quickest 100-plus partnership, in terms of strike rate, for any wicket, for Pakistan.
7 Number of 100-plus opening partnerships for Australia over the last two years. No other team has more than three. Australia have three such stands in 2014, which is also the highest for this year.
67 Number of wickets cumulatively taken by the Pakistan bowling attack at the start of Australia's innings. The Australian attack had taken 619 wickets by the end of Pakistan's first innings.

Bishen Jeswant is a stats sub editor at ESPNCricinfo @bishen_jeswant