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India vs Australia, 3rd Test, Day 1
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editor on 16 January, 2008 06:45:00
 
# Rahul Dravid's   93 is his third score in the 90s against Australia; his
previous two innings were 92 at Melbourne and an unbeaten 91 at Sydney during
the 2003-04 series.
# Dravid has now registered ten scores in the 90s (3 against Australia, 2 each
against the West Indies  , Sri Lanka   and England   and one against Zimbabwe),
emulating Australia's Steve Waugh's dubious distinction.
# Dravid became the second Indian batsman after Mohinder Amarnath (90 in Dec
1977) to be dismissed in the 90s at Perth.
# Virender Sehwag   has not scored a half-century in his last nine innings. He
last posted a fifty against the West Indies (65) at Basseterre in June 2006.
# Sachin Tendulkar   posted his second fifty-plus score at WACA - his highest
at this venue is 114 off 161 balls in February 1992.
# Sachin, with his knock of 71, became the first ever batsman to record 50
fifty-plus innings on foreign soil - 22 hundreds and 28 fifties in 132 innings.
# Sachin's 49th half-century is his ninth against Australia. He became the
first Indian to register 10 fifty-plus innings in Australia - 5 hundreds and
five fifties.
# Sachin, with 314 runs (ave.78.50) in five innings is now the leading
run-getter in the series. Matthew Hayden   (307) and Andrew Symonds   (302) have
recorded 300-plus in this series for Australia.
# Rahul Dravid has extended his world record for being involved in 71 century
partnerships.
# Dravid's 10th fifty against Australia is his 51st in Tests. He has now posted
75 fifty-plus innings - 24 centuries and 51 fifties.