Mohali Test, India vs Australia: Third day's statistical highlights

# Australia (408) have posted their second highest total at Mohali, next only to the 428 in October 2010.

# Steven Smith (92) has registered a career-best in Tests, eclipsing the 77 against Pakistan at Leeds in July 2010.

# Smith and Starc were involved in a stand of 97 - Australia's highest for the eighth wicket against India in India, bettering the 73 (twice) between Shane Watson and Brett Lee at Mohali in October 2008 and between Tom Veivers and Graham McKenzie at Chennai in October 1964.  Australia's highest stand for this wicket-position against India is 117 between Jason Gillespie and Simon Katich at Sydney in January 2004.

# The 97-run stand is the third highest for Australia for the eighth wicket against India - their eighth highest in an overseas Test - the highest being 137 between Richie Benaud and Ian Johnson against the West Indies at Kingston in June 1955.

# Mitchell Starc (99) has posted his highest score, outstripping the 68 not out off 43 balls against South Africa at Perth in November 2012.

# Starc became the first number nine batsman to be dismissed at 99 in Test Cricket.

# Starc is the fifth Australian player to be dismissed at 99 against India, joining Bill Brown, Ian Chappell, Matthew Hayden and Simon Katich.

# Starc's innings is the highest by an Australian number nine batsman against India, eclipsing Ian Johnson's 73 at Chennai in October 1956.  Two Australian number nine batsmen - Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson - have recorded fifties against India in Australia.

# Starc's innings is the fourth highest by number nine batsman for Australia in Tests.  Clem Hill, Jack Gregory and Ray Lindwall are the three Australians to have recorded hundred at this batting position - all against England in Australia.

# Starc's outstanding knock is the highest by Australian number nine batsman or lower since Ray Lindwall's 100 against England at Melbourne in  1946-47.  The said innings is the highest by an Australian batsman at this batting position in an overseas Test, surpassing Mitchell Johnson's unbeaten 96 against South Africa at Johannesburg in 2008-09.

# Only two batsmen have posted more than Starc against India at number nine - 173 by Ian Smith (New Zealand) at Auckland in 1989-90 and 102 not out by Lance Klusener (South Africa) at Cape town in 1996-97.

# For the second time, two Australian batsmen - Smith (92) and Starc (99) - have recorded two 90s in the same Test innings against India - the first instnce being Simon Katich (99) and Damien Martyn (97) at Nagpur in 2004.

# Dhoni is the first Indian wicketkeeper to effect five dismissals in an innings against Australia twice in Tests.  He had first achieved the feat in the 2007-08 Perth Test.

# Dhoni is the first Indian wicketkeeper to effect five dismissals in an innings six times in Tests.

# Dhoni is the first captain-cum-wicketkeeper to effect five dismissals in an innings five times in Tests.

# Ravichandran Ashwin is the first bowler to take 20 wickets in the present series.