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Ashes Stats: Pat Cummins takes while to get off the mark in Adelaide

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 03:  Pat Cummins of Australia bats during day two of the Second Test match during the 2017/18 Ashes Series between Australia
Image: Pat Cummins took 37 balls to get off the mark in Adelaide

Benedict Bermange has stats on Pat Cummins' long wait to get off the mark - and the first father and son to score Ashes tons.

Pat Cummins had never shared in a fifty partnership in his 10 Test partnerships before Brisbane - since then he has featured in two consecutive ones, with Steve Smith at the Gabba and Shaun Marsh in Adelaide.

Cummins joined Cameron Bancroft, Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb in being dismissed just after a break in play having not added to his previous score.

Australia's batsman Pat Cummins avoids a bouncer from the England bowling on the second day of the second Ashes cricket Test match in Adelaide in December
Image: Cummins evades a bouncer, a ball that eventually proved his undoing

Cummins finally got off the mark from his 37th delivery - the longest wait for Australia since Carl Rackemann scored his first run from his 75th delivery against England at Sydney in 1991.

The all-time Test record is 79 balls before scoring a run by John Murray for England against Australia at Sydney in 1963.

Marsh provided the first instance of a father and son both scoring Ashes centuries - Shaun's father Geoff scored two such Test centuries.

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 03: Shaun Marsh of Australia bats during day two of the Second Test match during the 2017/18 Ashes Series between Australia
Image: Marsh followed in the footsteps of father Geoff by hitting an Ashes hundred

Australia's total of 442-8 declared is the highest in day-night Tests at Adelaide, surpassing their 383 against South Africa last year.

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Sunday marked just the fourth occasion in Ashes history when a side sent in has responded with a declaration - it happened twice in 1954/55, in Brisbane and Sydney, and in Leeds in 1989.

Since the start of England's tour of India last November, in their seven overseas Tests they have bowled an average of 154.4 overs in the opposition's first innings, taking their wickets at 54.63 apiece - each one of those innings has lasted at least 129 overs.

Chris Woakes' overseas woes

Venue Tests Wickets Average Strike rate
Home 11 42 24.28 47.1
Away 9 10 70.70 134.0