Only Chris Broad has bettered Dawid Malan for England in Perth...
Friday 15 December 2017 11:33, UK
Benedict Bermange has the numbers on a joint milestone for Alastair Cook, James Anderson and Stuart Broad - and why England should be confident of victory in Perth...
Alastair Cook, Stuart Broad and James Anderson are playing their 100th Test together, just the third group of three players to achieve that feat and the first not to include Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.
Dawid Malan and Jonny Bairstow's partnership of 237 is England's highest fifth-wicket partnership against Australia, beating Denis Compton and Eddie Paynter's 206-run stand at Trent Bridge in 1938. It was England's joint-third best fifth-wicket partnership of all time:
Only Chris Broad has made a higher score than Malan for England in Tests at the WACA:
Chris Broad, 162 in 1986/87
Dawid Malan, 140 in 2017/18
David Gower, 136 in 1986/87
Jack Richards, 133 in 1986/87
Brian Luckhurst, 131 in 1970/71
Bairstow's innings of 119 is just the fourth century by an England wicketkeeper in Tests in Australia.
Jack Richards, 133 in 1986/87 (Perth)
Jonny Bairstow, 119 in 2017/18 (Perth)
Matt Prior, 118 in 2010/11 (Sydney)
Alan Knott, 106no in 1974/75 (Adelaide)
Only one side has ever scored more than 400 in their first innings in a Perth Test and lost the match - India scored 402 in 1977 and went on to lose by two wickets.
England lost their last six wickets for 35 runs from 51 deliveries - that is their fifth-worst batting collapse from a position of having been 368 or more for the loss of four wickets.
England in their five innings in the series so far:
Wickets 1-5 - average 40.2 runs per wicket (1005 runs / 25 wickets)
Wickets 6-10 - average 14.2 runs per wicket (355 runs / 25 wickets)
On 10 of the previous 12 occasions that Steve Smith has passed fifty in Australia's first innings of a home Test he has gone on to score a century.
Batsmen have been unbeaten in the nineties on 225 previous occasions in Test cricket. On 185 of those occasions (82 per cent) they have gone on to complete their century.
