Australia v. India - 4 Test series.

[Donny]

The Adelaide Test has been confirmed as the first match of the Australia-India series and is set to begin on December 9, three days earlier than originally scheduled.

The Brisbane Test will be shifted to second in the series and will begin on December 17, and the Sydney Test will be pushed back by three days to allow the players extra recovery time during a condensed, reworked four-Test schedule.

[Jezza]

http://www.cricket.com.au/news/michael-clarke-named-to-play-in-first-test-against-india-at-adelaide-oval/2014-12-08

What a lovely gesture naming Philip Hughes as the honourary 13th man for the first test commencing tomorrow.

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Nice having the day off to watch the morning session after the collective shock & sadness over Phillip Hughes.

This will be a tough first session with Australia batting.

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After 3 overs Warner has exploded. Thinks its a 20 over game. He is 28 off 13 balls!

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Australia 0/40 after 4 overs. Rogers has barely had the strike. Warner 36 off 18.

[Donny]

1/75. Rogers 9.

Warner 49*, Watson 13*.

[Donny]

2/88. Watson 14.

Warner 61*.

[Donny]

2/113 at lunch.

Warner 77*, Clarke 9*.

[Donny]

Warner 100* from 106 balls.

[Donny]

2/201.

Warner 113*, Clarke 58*.

[Donny]

Clarke walks off. Retired hurt 60. Suspected back spasm.

Warner 117*.

2/207.

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Dodgy back haunts Clarke (again). Hit a pretty good 60 in good time but questions about his selection will have to be asked given his back/hammy issues are ever present. Bad luck for him.

[Jezza]

Currently 3/319 with Australia well in control despite the injury setback from Clarke.

[Donny]

Stumps. 6/354. Warner 145, Smith 72*, Clarke 60 ret hurt, Shami 2/83.

[Donny]

Dave Warner stats.

959 Runs scored by Warner in 2014, the most by any opener. Sri Lanka's Kaushal Silva is next with 769 runs.

23 Number of consecutive Tests at Adelaide where the captain winning the toss has chosen to bat first. The last captain who chose to bowl was Mohammad Azharuddin, in 1992. India lost that Test by a close margin of 38 runs.

24 Number of years since an Indian spinner made his Test debut outside the subcontinent. Prior to Karn Sharma making his debut in this Test, Anil Kumble had debuted against England at Old Trafford in 1990.

145 Runs scored by Warner in Australia's first innings, his fifth century in his last ten Test innings. He also has three fifties in this period. His 145 is also the third highest score by an Australian opener at Adelaide in the last 30 years.

10 Number of Test hundreds for Warner. He got to this mark in 33 Tests, the fourth fastest for an Australian batsman after Don Bradman, Arthur Morris and Neil Harvey.

50.4 Warner's batting average as an opener. His average touched the 50 mark when he was batting on 122, during his innings of 145. He is only the fifth Australian opener to score 2000-plus runs at an average of 50 or more.

103 Michael Clarke's batting average at Adelaide. He was retired hurt for 60 in Australia's first innings. Clarke is the only batsmen to score more than 1000 runs and average more than 100 in Adelaide. Among batsmen who have scored more than 500 runs, Don Bradman (107. and Lindsay Hassett (128.3) also have 100-plus averages.

135 Warner's strike rate against Varun Aaron and Mohammad Shami. He scored 77 runs off 57 balls against them. However, he only scored 16 runs off 41 balls against Ishant Sharma, at a strike rate of 39.

5 Number of deliveries that the Indian pacers bowled from over the wicket to Warner during the first session. Bowling from round the wicket, the pacers conceded 58 runs off 58 balls to Warner, yet stuck to the same strategy. Prior to this Test Warner averaged 57.8 against pace bowlers bowling round the wicket, while he averaged 52.8 against those bowling over the stumps.

35 Runs that Warner scored off his first 17 balls. He only scored seven runs off his next 17 balls. He eventually finished his innings at a strike rate of 89, his fourth highest strike rate for a 100-plus score.

2 Number of times that Clarke has been retired hurt in his career. No batsmen has been retired hurt, and not returned to bat in that innings, more often in the last ten years. Overall, the batsmen to be retired hurt most often in their careers are Rahul Dravid, Nasser Hussain and Dilip Vengsarkar, three times each.

86.9 Warner's mean strike rate in Tests when he scores a century. Among batsmen who have played at least ten innings, this is the second highest strike rate. Just above him on the list is Adam Gilchrist (96.6) and just below is Virender Sehwag (83.5).

50 The opening partnership between Chris Rogers and David Warner. This is fifth 50-plus opening stand for Australia in 2014. The only team to have posted more such partnerships is West Indies, with six.

60 Runs scored by Australia in the first ten overs of their innings. Since 2001, this is the tenth instance of Australia scoring at a run rate of six runs or more during the first ten overs of their innings, three of those against India.

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