Today Australia made their seventh lowest score in the test history in their first innings.Stuart Broad was at his best today marking his 300+ test wickets and recording 8-15 as his best bowling figures.Australia collapsed before lunch very cheaply with Mitchell Johnson as highest run scorer for the Australian's.
- 60 is the Australia's seventh-lowest score in Test history in the first innings , and their second-lowest in the last 79 years. It was back then when they were bowled out for less against South Africa - 47 all out in Cape Town, 2011.
- 111 the number of balls (or 18.3 overs) Australia lasted making it as the shortest-ever first innings of a Test. It's also been Australia's third-shortest Test innings. Their shortest lasted 99 balls (or 12.3 eight-ball overs), in Brisbane in 1936. Thirteen out of Australia's 14 shortest Test innings have come against England.
- 2 wickets were taken by Stuart Broad in the first over of the match.Earlier there were only two previous incidents, since 2002, of a bowler taking two or more wickets in the first over of a Test match.One was Irfan Pathan against Pakistan in 2006 and another was Chris Cairns against England in 2002.
- 9 number of times Broad has taken six or more wickets in an innings, the third-most for any England bowler, and the sixth-most overall.
- 25 balls collapsed the first five wickets of Australia.This has been the quickest any team has lost five wickets since 2002 as it took 111 balls (or 4.1 overs) for Australia to lose their first five wickets.
- 6.1 overs were bowled by England when Stuart Broad took his fifth wicket. Since 2002, no bowler before Broad had picked up more than three wickets in the first 6.1 overs of an innings.
- 14 number of times that extras have top-scored in a Test innings. This is third such instance for Australia, with the last occasion being against West Indies in 1991. England conceded 14 extras which constituted 23% of Australia's score of 60.
- 0 Chris Rogers makes first duck of his entire Test career,in his 46th innings. If Rogers had not scored a duck during this Ashes series, after which he is supposed to retire, he would have had the longest Test career without a single duck, a record currently held by Australia's Jim Burke (44 innings).
- 8-15 Broad's figures in the first innings of this Test, the best of his career. He has two previous seven-wicket hauls, against New Zealand (2013) and West Indies (2012), both at Lord's.
- 5 Number of times that three (or more) out of Australia's top-four batsmen have scored ducks - Chris Rogers (0),David Warner (0), Steven Smith (6) and Shaun Marsh (0). Each of those five instances have been against England, with the last coming 65 years ago, in Brisbane in 1950.
- 5 The number of England bowlers with 300-plus Test wickets. Broad enters this category becoming the fifth bowler to join the list during his seven-wicket haul in the first innings. The other four bowlers are James Anderson (413), Ian Botham (383), Bob Willis (325) and Fred Trueman (307).
- 0 number of Australia's top-seven batsmen who scored more than 10 runs during the first innings. Clarke was the highest run-scorer with exactly 10 runs. The last instance when each of Australia's top-seven batsmen were dismissed for 10 runs or less in an Ashes Test was 79 years ago, in Brisbane in 1936. This has happened to Australia five times in all Tests, four of those against England.
- 1.87 The average runs per wicket conceded by Broad in the first innings of this Test. He took eight wickets and conceded only 15 runs. Broad is the first bowler to concede less than two runs per wicket when taking a five-wicket haul against Australia.
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