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Stats - Australia make it 9-0 in pink-ball Tests

9-0 With a 275-run win over England in the second Ashes Test in Adelaide, Australia extended their perfect record in day-night Tests, winning all nine they have played so far. Australia played six of those of nine at the Adelaide Oval, including two against England.

23 Test defeats as captain for Joe Root, the most for an England captain, surpassing Alastair Cook's 22 losses. Eight of those 23 defeats came in the Ashes, the joint-third-most for a captain.

12.56 Jos Buttler's strike rate during his 207-ball 26. Only two batters had a lower strike rate in a Test innings while facing 200-plus balls (where balls faced data is available). Hashim Amla struck at 10.24 during his 244-ball 25 against India in 2015, while Jack Russell scored an unbeaten 29 off 235 at a strike rate of 12.34 against South Africa in 1995. Buttler's strike rate of 11.71 across both innings of the Adelaide Test is the second-lowest for any batter when facing 200-plus deliveries in a Test.

1.69 England's run rate in the fourth innings. It is the fifth-lowest in a Test innings of 100-plus overs since 2000. The top four slowest Test innings in this period have all been played by South Africa. The Adelaide Test saw England's slowest Test innings since The Oval 1998 when they scored 198 runs in 120.4 overs at a rate of 1.39 in the second innings against Sri Lanka.

379 Total balls faced by England's players batting at No. 7 or lower. Since 2010, only once a team's No. 7 and lower batters have faced more deliveries in the fourth innings of a Test. Coincidentally, it was England only whose lower order battled for 459 balls against Sri Lanka at Leeds in 2014 in yet another unsuccessful attempt to save the match.

56 Test wickets for Nathan Lyon at the Adelaide Oval, the joint-most for a bowler at the venue. Lyon equalled Shane Warne's tally.

4859 Runs as captain for Root in Test cricket. He now holds the record for the most Test runs as an England skipper, eclipsing Cook's tally of 4844. In the next Test, Root will also equal Cook's record of leading England in the most number of Tests.

52 Wickets for Mitchell Starc in day-night Test matches. He is the first bowler to complete 50 wickets in day-night Tests. Lyon is second on that list with 34 scalps.