17 - This was England's 17th consecutive Test in Australia without a win. They last won a Test in Australia at the SCG in January 2011. England have lost 15 matches since and drawn two. They are now level with West Indies and Pakistan for the longest streak without a win in Australia. Only New Zealand have had a longer winless streak (18).
511 - Australia scored 511 in their first innings at the Gabba without any player scoring a hundred. It is only the sixth 500-plus team total in Tests without any batter getting into the triple-digit scores.
The highest team total in Tests without a hundred belongs to Sri Lanka - 531 vs Bangladesh in Chattogram in 2024. For Australia, the highest such total is 520 for 7 against West Indies in 2009.
6 - This was only the sixth time in Test cricket that all 11 batters in a Test innings scored in double-digits. The highest score in Australia's first innings was Mitchell Starc's 77 and the lowest was Brendan Doggett's 13. The only such occasion for Australia before this came in Colombo in 1992 when Mike Whitney's unbeaten 10 was the lowest score of the innings.
420 - Starc finished the second Test with 420 wickets in his Test career, surpassing Wasim Akram (414) for the most scalps by a left-arm fast bowler in the format. Among all left-arm bowlers, only Rangana Herath (433) is ahead of Starc.
16 - Tests Joe Root has played in Australia and he is yet to win one there. He went past Kapil Dev's tally of playing the most Tests in an away country without a single win. Dev played 15 Tests in Pakistan which resulted in 10 draws and five defeats.
In total, this was the 14th time Root ended up on the losing side in Australia. Only Alastair Cook and James Anderson have lost more Tests in an away country (15 each).
200 - Overseas Test defeats for England. They have lost 101 Test matches in Australia now. In the rest of the world (barring England), they have lost 99 matches combined.
2 - Starc is only the second bowler to take a wicket in the opening over of a Test innings in four consecutive innings - Jamaica, Perth (twice) and Brisbane. Sri Lanka's Dhammika Prasad was the first to do so, picking up a first-over wicket in each of the four innings of the last two Tests, against India in 2015.
6 - Starc is also the sixth fast bowler to pick up a six-wicket haul in three consecutive Tests. The list includes George Lohmann (in 1896), Tom Richardson (1895-1896), Imran Khan (1982-1983), Malcolm Marshall (1988) and Blessing Muzarabani (2025).
2 - This was only the second time in his career that Starc had the best figures and the highest score in a Test match for Australia. He scored 77 and picked 6 for 75. In the WACA Test against South Africa in 2012, Starc picked up 6 for 154 and scored 68 not out in the second innings.
In the Ashes, he is only the fourth player to pick up over six wickets and score more than 75 in an innings. The last such instance was from Ian Botham way back in 1981 - when he finished with 6 for 95 and 149 not out
3 - Starc won his third Player-of-the-Match award in a row. Michael Hussey is the only other Australian to replicate this feat. In a single Ashes series, Starc is only the fifth player to win back-to-back Player-of-the-Match awards after Botham (three successive awards in 1981), Ricky Ponting (2006-07), Mitchell Johnson (2013-14) and Ben Stokes (2019).
18 - Starc now has 18 wickets in this Ashes, becoming only the 11th bowler to pick these many wickets in the first two Tests of an Ashes series. The last bowler to do so was Shane Warne 31 years ago in the 1994 Ashes.
50 - The 70-run stand between Root and Jofra Archer in the first innings was the 50th 50-plus partnership for the 10th wicket in the Ashes. However, it was the first in Australia since Allan Border and Jeff Thomson added 50 runs for the 10th wicket in the Melbourne Test in 1982. Since then, there had been 10 10th-wicket partnerships of 50 or more in the Ashes, all of which came in England.
210 - Steven Smith drew level with Rahul Dravid for the second-most catches in Test cricket as a fielder. Smith took three catches on the fourth day of the Gabba Test. Only Root is ahead now with 213 catches and counting.
255.55 - Smith's strike rate in the chase of 65 at the Gabba. He scored 23 not out off only nine balls with two fours and two sixes. It is the highest strike rate for Smith in an innings where he has scored more than 20.