Stats Analysis

Clarke batting like Brearley (but not winning)

Stats highlights from the second day at Trent Bridge as England closed in on the Ashes

S Rajesh
S Rajesh
07-Aug-2015
Chris Rogers notched another half-centuryChris Rogers notched fifty in a century opening standBridge, 2nd day, August 7, 2015

Chris Rogers and David Warner became only the fifth opening pair to put together two century stands in the second innings of an Ashes series  •  Getty Images

5-35 Ben Stokes' bowling figures, his second five-for in Tests. His best is currently 6 for 99 against Australia in Sydney in 2014.
16.71 Michael Clarke's average in this series; it is the second-lowest by a batsman-captain in an Ashes series since 1965 (minimum six innings). Only Ricky Ponting did worse in 2010-11, averaging 16.14 in eight innings. In all Ashes series, there are only five instances of captains having lower averages when batting in the top seven. In fact, Clarke's batting average isn't dissimilar to Mike Brearley's in the two Ashes series he captained in: in 1978-79 he averaged 16.72 from 12 innings, while in 1981 he averaged 17.62 from eight innings. England, though, won both those series.
18 Number of times, in his last 33 Test innings - starting with the 2013-14 Ashes - that Clarke has been dismissed for less than 20. He has gone past 40 only six times during this period. Before the 2013-14 Ashes series, Clarke had a career average of 52.08; it has now slid down to 49.30.
331 England's first-innings lead, which is their eighth-highest against Australia since 1940. Three of their higher leads came in a single series, in 2010-11 in Australia. (Click here to see England's highest leads when they batted second, and here for their leads when they batted first.) It's also their second-highest lead in a Test at Trent Bridge, after their 401-run lead against Pakistan in 1954.
69.09 David Warner's Test average in the second innings against England: in 12 innings he has eight 50-plus scores. In the first innings he averages 19.50, with only one 50-plus score in 12 innings.
5 Number of opening pairs who've put together two century partnerships in the second innings of an Ashes series. Chris Rogers and David Warner became the fifth such pair, adding 113 here and 114* in the second innings at Lord's. Before them, the only pairs to achieve this were Jack Hobbs-Herbert Sutcliffe (1926), Len Hutton-Cyril Washbrook (1946-47), Geoff Boycott-John Edrich (1970-71), and Michael Slater-Mark Taylor (1994-95). Out of nine second-innings century partnerships for the opening wicket for Australia in England, Rogers and Warner have contributed three.
26 Runs scored by Steven Smith in his last four Test innings: 7, 8, 6, 5. At Lord's he scored 273 runs in two innings.
42.66 Stuart Broad's batting average in Tests at Trent Bridge. In ten innings, he has been dismissed for less than 24 only once.
106.33 Joe Root's Test average at Trent Bridge. He has scored two hundreds in four innings - 154 not out against India last year, and 130 in this Test.
6-111 Mitchell Starc's bowling figures, his best in Test cricket, surpassing 6 for 154 against South Africa in Perth in 2012. This is his fourth five-for, but in three of those he has gone at more than four runs per over. These are also the fifth-best figures by an Australian bowler at Trent Bridge.

S Rajesh is stats editor of ESPNcricinfo. @rajeshstats