Mason Crane becomes England's 18th-youngest player
Thursday 4 January 2018 09:55, UK
Alastair Cook became the second man, after Allan Border, to play 150 Tests in a row but then fell five runs short of 12,000 - Benedict Bermange has the key numbers after day one in Sydney...
Alastair Cook is the second man to play 150 consecutive Test matches.
Cook was dismissed with his Test run aggregate on 11,995. He was also dismissed in the 9,990s (by Suranga Lakmal at Chester-le-Street in 2016) and the 10,990s (by Ravindra Jadeja at Mumbai the same year).
Most times dismissed in Tests within 10 runs of a 1,000 run milestone:
6 - Adam Gilchrist
6 - Jimmy Adams
5 - David Gower
4 - Alastair Cook
Joe Root again failed to convert a 50+ score into a century - since the beginning of 2016 in Test cricket here are the 'Big Four's' conversion rates:
Since the start of 1996, Australia have played 23 Tests at the Sydney Cricket Ground, winning 18 of them and losing only two. However - both those losses were to England - by 225 runs in 2003 and by an innings and 83 runs in 2011
At the age of 20 years and 320 days, Mason Crane became England's 18th-youngest player, and the youngest specialist spinner to be picked since Ian Peebles against South Africa at Johannesburg in 1927.
Thursday's attendance at the SCG was 44,874 making the total attendance for the series 729,527. Four years ago the total was 753,868 so that should be exceeded on Friday.
