India's struggles with reviews, defensive shots

0 Wickets taken by Steve O'Keefe from the Pavilion End, from nine overs. All 12 of his wickets came from the Hill End. O'Keefe did not bowl from the Pavilion End after his first spell in the first innings. In the second innings, he began from the Hill End and continued bowling from that end unchanged. Of the 20 India wickets, 16 were taken by a bowler bowling from the Hill End. Of the four taken by bowlers bowling from the Pavilion End, three were taken by Nathan Lyon, the last three dismissals in the match.

79 The control percentage for Indian batsmen against O'Keefe, which means 21% of the time he drew false strokes from the Indian batsmen. Despite taking 12 wickets in the game, O'Keefe wasn't the bowler who forced the highest percentage of false shots from batsmen; against Nathan Lyon, the control percentage for India's batsmen was only 70, which suggests he was unlucky to not take more than five wickets in the match. In fact, India's two spinners main drew more false shots than O'Keefe: Australia's control percentage was only 76 against R Ashwin and 73 against Ravindra Jadeja. However, O'Keefe's fuller length, and the fact that he got less turn, ensured that he got the edges and the wickets, while the other spinners beat the bat more often.

67 Average of India's top-five batsmen against left-arm spinners before this series - each of them averaged above 45, with Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli averaging above 100. In this match, each of them were dismissed by O'Keefe at least once and their collective average fell to 56.25. In the 2016-17 season, other visiting left-arm spinners picked up 11 wickets giving away 839 runs, an average of 76.27. In this match alone, O'Keefe picked 12 wickets at an average of 5.83.

14 Dismissals for India while playing a defensive shot. Australia, on the other hand, lost 14 wickets while looking to attack and six while defending.

4 Number of reviews India took when fielding, and were wrong on all occasions. On the other hand, Australia reviewed only once when fielding and got it right. Australia batsmen reviewed six times and got two right while India batsmen got one right in three attempts. In the third innings, off two consecutive overs of Jayant Yadav India reviewed and got both wrong thus finishing their reviews and in the 56th over when Steve Smith could have been out if India had reviews left. In the fourth innings, both openers reviewed Umpire's decision and had failed, thus India lost both their reviews very early in the innings. Overall, both teams used seven reviews, the visitors had three successes and hosts only one.

65 Percentage of runs scored by the Australian batsmen on the off side against R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. Jadeja conceded 72% of his runs came on the off side while the figure was 60% for Ashwin in the same region. During his century, Steven Smith scored 77% of his runs against Jadeja on the off side while 75% of runs scored against Ashwin were towards the leg side. Smith did not play against the spin much, thereby reducing the risk of getting dismissed.

79.01 Percentage of dot balls Smith faced off Jadeja. Against each of the other three bowlers - Ashwin, Umesh Yadav and Jayant - he did not have more than 56% in dot balls. He had a strike rate of over 60 against each of the other three bowlers, but only 38.27 against Jadeja and finally lost his wicket to him.

12 Percentage of runs scored by Australia off the sweep and reverse sweep. Australia scored 39 runs through the sweep and 17 runs through the reverse sweep while losing one wicket to the same. This has been an effective shot in the sub-continent. India, on the other hand, had the opportunity to sweep only eight times scoring 18 runs from those.