m It was on November 10, 2000 that Sourav Ganguly led India in a Test for the first time, vs Bangladesh in Dhaka. Incidentally, he has ended his Test career on the same day, eight years later.

m M.S. Dhoni became the first Indian captain to win his first three Tests as captain.

m Australia’s last series loss by a two-Test margin was against the West Indies in Australia in 1988-89. West Indies won 3-1 on that occasion.

m Australia had won their last nine series in a row. They last lost a series to England in England in 2005.

m Harbhajan Singh became the highest wicket taker of 2008 by dismissing Shane Watson. He now has 55 wickets, followed by South African Dale Steyn, who has 52 wickets this year.

m Jason Krejza became the fifth Australian to win a Man of the Match award in his debut game. Others are: Kepler Wessels, Peter Taylor, Michael Clarke, Stuart Clark and Jason Krejza.

m This was Australia’s 700th Test match and they had never lost a centenary Test match from 100 to 600.

m Ricky Ponting became the fifth player to be run out on more than 10 occasions in his Test career. Allan Border (12), Matthew Hayden (11) Gary Sobers (10) and Carl Hooper (10) are the others in the list.

m It was the fifth time that Ponting has been run out as the captain of the side. However, the captain with most run out dismissals is New Zealand’s Stephen Fleming, who was dismissed six times as captain. However, Ponting now holds the record of most run out dismissals among Australian captains. Bobby Simpson and Alan Border were dismissed this way four times each.

m Sachin Tendulkar became the 27th cricketer to take 100 catches in Test cricket. He is also the fifth Indian to do so.

m On 50, Hayden also completed 1000 runs on Indian soil. He is only the third visiting player to score 1000 or more in India. The others being West Indian Clive Llyod (1359 runs) and Gordon Greenidge (1042 runs).