Statistical highlights of the second day's play in the fourth Test between India and Australia, in Adelaide.
# India (526) posted their highest innings total at Adelaide, surpassing their 523 in 2003-04. This is the third occasion when India have recorded a total of 500-plus at the venue. In 1985-86, India had made 520.
# India became the first team to post three totals of 500-plus against Australia at Adelaide.
# Adam Gilchrist, with Anil Kumble's dismissal, established a world record for most dismissals -- 414 (377 catches + 37 stumpings) in 96 Tests.
# Gilchrist, with Harbhajan's dismissal, had equalled Mark Boucher's record of 413 dismissals (394 catches + 19 stumpings) in 109 Tests.
# Harbhajan and Kumble put on 107 runs for the eighth wicket. The pair became the first to be associated in a hundred run partnership for this wicket-position against Australia at Adelaide, bettering the 96-run partnership between Eddie Paynter and Hedley Verity for England in 1932-33.
# Overall, the aforesaid stand is India's third best against Australia - the top two being 129 between Sachin Tendulkar and Harbhajan Singh at Sydney in 2007-08 and 127 between Syed Kirmani and Karsan Ghavri at Mumbai in 1979-80.
# Of the three eighth wicket partnerships of 100-plus for India against Australia, Harbhajan figures in two.
# Kumble has been associated in a 100-run partnership four times - 3 times for the eighth wicket and one for the sixth wicket.
# Harbhajan's 63 is his second fifty against Australia - his fourth overall. All his four fifties have been recorded by Harbhajan away from home as under:
Runs Balls S.Rate Opponents Venue Series
66 71 92.96 Zimbabwe Bulawayo 2001
63 92 68.48 Australia Sydney 2007-08
63 103 61.16 Australia Adelaide 2007-08
54 37 145.95 England Nottingham 2002.
# Harbhajan's tally of 135 (ave.27.00) is his best in a Test series, surpassing his tally of 102 (ave.34.00) in two Tests against Zimbabwe in 2001.
# For the first time in his Test career, Harbhajan has recorded two fifties in successive Tests/in a series.
# For the first time in his Test career, Harbhajan faced 100 balls (103) in an innings. In the 2007-08 Sydney Test, he had faced 92 balls to score 63.
# Five players have recorded 50-plus in an Indian innings -- Sachin Tendulkar (153), Virender Sehwag (63), Harbhajan (63), VVS Laxman(51) and Kumble (87). This is the sixth occasion when five or more fifty-plus innings have been recorded by India in an away Test -- the previous five instances being -- 6 vs England at The Oval in 2007; 5 vs Sri Lanka at Colombo, SSC in 1998-99, 5 vs. Bangladesh at Mirpur in 2007; 5 vs. England at Trent Bridge in 2007 and 5 vs Australia at Sydney in 2007-08.
# Kumble (87) registered his highest Test score as captain - his first fifty as captain.
# Kumble's innings of 87 is the second best by an Indian captain at Adelaide. Mohammad Azharuddin had made 106 off 162 balls as captain at this venue in January 1992.
# Kumble's innings is his third best score, next only to his career-best 110 not out against England at The Oval in 2007 and 88 against South Africa at Kolkata in 1996-97.
# Kumble's first fifty against Australia is his fifth in Test cricket.
# Kumble (205 balls), for the first time, has faced 200 balls in a Test innings. During his career-best knock, he had faced 193 balls.
# Interestingly, both Kumble and Sachin have faced the same number of balls (205) in India's innings.
# Sachin Tendulkar (153) became the fourth Indian to register an innings of 150 or more at Adelaide, joining Rahul Dravid - 233 in 2003-04; Sandeep Patil - 174 in 1980-81 and Sunil Gavaskar - 166 not out in 1985-86.
# Sachin's 153 is his 17th score of 150-plus. Only Brian Lara (19) and Don Bradman (18) have recorded more 150-plus innings than Sachin.
# Away from home, Sachin has recorded 9 innings of 150-plus. Steve Waugh and Brian Lara has recorded 10 each.
# Sachin has taken his tally to 480 (ave.80.00) in the current series - the most by any batsman so far.
# Kumble and Ishant Sharma put on 58 runs, India's second best stand for the 10th wicket at Adelaide, next only to the 94 between Sunil Gavaskar and Shivlal Yadav in 1985-86.
# Ishant (14 not out) recorded his second best score -- his best is 23 at Sydney in the second Test of the series.
# For Australia, Brett Lee has been the most successful bowler in the series so far - 22 wickets at an average of 21.27, followed by Stuart Clark - 14 (ave.25.57) and Mitchell Johnson - 14 (ave.35.50).
