Here are the statistical highlights of the fourth day's play between India and Australia in the Sydney Test.
# Ben Hilfenhaus is the leading wicket-taker after the first two Tests, claiming 15 wickets at an average of 18,06.
# Hilfenhaus' excellent figures of 5 for 106 are his second instance of five wickets in an innings - his second in successive Tests. He had claimed 5 for 75 against India in the Melbourne Test.
# Hilfenhaus (8/157) has recorded his best bowling figures in a Test match, eclipsing the 7 for 114 against India at Melbourne in December last year.
# Ravichandran Ashwin's 62 off 76 balls is his highest innings overseas, surpassing the 31 at MCG in the first Test of the present series.
# Michael Clarke has received the Man of the Match for the fourth time in Tests.
# India (400) have posted their highest second innings total at SCG, bettering the 261 in January 2000.
# India, for the second time, have recorded 400 or more in the second innings in Australila - their highet is 445 at Adelaide in January 1978.
# India have posted a total of 350 or more six times at SCG. India have amassed 600 runs or more at this venue twice.
# India have crossed a total of 300 for the first time in twelve Test innings away from home.
# Sachin Tendulkar became the first Indian player to amass 200 runs in the present rubber, aggregating 226 runs (ave. 56.00) in four innings, including two fifties. He is the only Indian batsman to register two fifties in the series, his scores are 73, 32, 41 & 80.
# Sachin took his tally at SCG to 785 at an average of 157.00 in only nine innings, including three hundreds and two fifties.
# Sachin's batting figures against Australia are superb after 33 Tests, aggregating 3377 runs at an average of 60.30, including eleven hundreds. In Australia, his record is reasonably good, averaging 58.26 - 1748 runs in 18 Tests, including six hundreds and seven fifties.
# Tendulkar (80 off 141 balls) has extended his record for most half-centuries (65) in Tests. The said innings is his 15th against Australia.
# Sachin's tally of 26 innings of fifty or more, including 11 hundreds, in 33 Tests is the second highest against Australia, behind the 27 in 41 Tests by Jack Hobbs.
# Gautam Gambhir (83 off 142 balls) has recorded his highest innings in Tests in Australia. The said innings is his third highest against Australia, next only to the 206 at Delhi and 104 at Mohali in 2008-09.
# Gambhir, in seven Tests against Australia, has totalled 591 runs at an average of 42.21, including two hundreds and two fifties.
# Gambhir's aforesaid innings is his first fifty in ten innings away from home - his last fifty on foreign soil was 64 against South Africa at Cape Town in January 2011.
# Gambhir's 83 is his 19th half-century in Tests.