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Stats - King haul caps Australia's historic Women's Ashes whitewash

Australia pose with the Women's Ashes trophy AFP/Getty Images

16-0 - Australia bagged the multi-format Ashes series 16-0, to sum up their dominant summer. They whitewashed England across three ODIs and three T20Is, and won the historic day-night Test at the MCG inside three days to take the maximum possible points in the series for the first time since its inception in 2013.

440 - Australia's total at MCG in their first innings was their third-highest total at home. Interestingly, both of their highest scores in the Ashes at home have come in pink-ball Tests. The previous being 448 for 9, when both the teams met for the first-ever day-night Women's Test at the North Sydney Oval in 2017.

This was also the eighth instance of Australia scoring over 400 in Test cricket, going past England and India's seven each.

Innings and 122 runs - Australia's margin of victory over England in the first-ever pink-ball Test at the MCG. It is also the third-biggest margin of victory for Australia following the innings-and-284-runs win against South Africa last year and the innings-and-140-runs win against England in 2001.

270 - Australia's lead at the end of their batting innings at the MCG, the second-biggest first-innings lead for them in Test cricket. The best for them was when they achieved a lead of 499 against South Africa at the WACA last year, which also remains the biggest by any team in the history of women's Tests.

23 - Wickets taken by Alana King across the seven games of the Women's Ashes, the most by a bowler alongside Ash Gardner who also picked up 23 in the previous Ashes in 2023.

9 - Wickets shared between King and Gardner in the final innings of the MCG Test. It is only the second time spinners have taken nine or more wickets in an innings for Australia. The last time it happened was in the previous Test here at the MCG in 1949, when Betty Wilson, Una Paisley and Amy Hudson shared the spoils.

1 - Annabel Sutherland became the first woman to score a Test match century at the MCG. In the previous two matches played here, in 1935 and 1949, England's Betty Snowball had the highest score of 83 not out at the iconic venue.

3 - Sutherland equaled the record of Wilson and Jill Kennare to have the most centuries for Australia in Test cricket. She now has three centuries in her last six Test innings, and becomes only the second woman after India's Sandhya Agarwal to have three or more hundreds under the age of 24.

150 - Sutherland also became the first woman in Test history to have scored 150-plus scores in consecutive innings en route to her 163 at the MCG, with her previous Test innings being the mammoth 210 at the WACA last year. She is just the third cricketer to have multiple 150-plus scores in Test cricket after Karen Rolton and Heather Knight.

4 - Beth Mooney's maiden Test match century made her only the fourth woman after Knight, Tammy Beaumont and Laura Wolvaardt - and the first Australian - to have centuries in all three international formats of the game. She has three ODI and two T20I tons apart from her first in Tests.

6 - Nat Sciver-Brunt's half century in the first innings at the MCG, means she now has a fifty in each of her last six Tests, making her the first player to achieve this feat in Women's Tests. Three have come against Australia, two against South Africa and one versus India in 2023.

5 for 143 - Sophie Ecclestone became the first female visiting bowler to get their name up on the MCG honours board. But it came at an expensive cost, as she conceded the second-most runs by a bowler in a women's Test whilst taking a five-wicket haul. Ony former Pakistan skipper Shaiza Khan has a more-expensive five-for, conceding 167 runs for her six wickets in 2004 in what is still the country's last Test played.

It was also the fourth occasion of Ecclestone conceding over 100 runs in a Test innings, the most for any bowler. New Zealand's Jackie Lord had done so three times over the course of her Test career.