A list of records that were broken and the ones that were made:
- Ahmed Shehzad (176), Muhammad Hafeez (96), Azhar Ali (89), Younis Khan (100*) and Misbah-ul-Haq (102*) made it first instance that top 5 players scored 80+ runs in the same innings.
- This is also the first instance that Pakistan have declared in the fourth consecutive innings. Pakistan had also declared three times against Australia in the recently concluded series. England hold the record for 6 consecutive declarations, all of which had come against West Indies in 2009.
- Misbah-ul-Haq scored third century in a row, and this is first instance that two different players from the same country have scored centuries in three consecutive innings in the same year. Younis Khan had done that against Australia in the last series. For Younis, it was fourth century in his last five innings. This means Younis would have equalled Sir Everton Weekes’ all time record of scoring centuries in five consecutive innings, had he scored century in the second innings of the second test against Australia. Younis scoed 46 in that innings.
- Overall, Misbah is fifth Pakistani player after Younis Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Mudassar Nazar and Mohammad Yousuf to score centuries in three consecutive innings, and Younis Khan has become fifth Pakistani player after Zaheer Abbas, Mudassar Nazar, Shoaib Mohammad and Mohammad Yousuf to score centuries in three consecutive test matches. Yousuf did it twice, as he also holds the record for scoring centuries in five consecutive test matches for Pakistan.
- Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan had an undefeated partnership of 193 runs, their 12th century partnership together, most by any Pakistani pair. This was just the 35th innings in which they have batted together. Only 10 pairs in the test cricket history have more century partnerships than them. At 86% they have the best conversion rate of converting the 50 partnerships into 100 (among the pairs who have scored at least 8 century partnerships together).
- Ahmed Shehzad and Mohammad Hafeez had the opening wicket partnership of 178, Ahmed Shehzad and Azhar Ali had the second wicket partnership of 169 runs and Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan had an undefeated partnership of 193 runs. This was also the first instance in Pakistan’s history and seventh in the world that there were 150 runs partnership for 3 wickets.
- 221 – Pakistan’s victory margin in the first Test which was its biggest against Australia in terms of runs in their history – until its victory by 356 runs in the second Test in Abu Dhabi.
- 273 – The number of deliveries between a boundary in Australia’s second innings of the first Test. The longest-ever stretch is 379 deliveries by New Zealand against Australia at Perth in 1985.
- 80 – The number of deliveries that Sarfraz Ahmed took to reach his century in the first Test, which is the second-fastest of all-time among Test wicket-keepers. The only faster century was Adam Gilchrist’s 57-ball effort against England at Perth in the 2006/07 Ashes Series.
- 15 – Misbah’s Test wins as captain of Pakistan, breaking the record held jointly by Imran Khan and Javed Miandad.
- 21 and 24 – The number of balls and minutes it took Misbah to score his half-century, which was the fastest ever in the 137 year history of Test Match cricket. The previous records were 24 balls by Jacques Kallis against Zimbabwe at Cape Town in 2005 and Mohammad Ashraful in 27 minutes against India at Mirpur in 2007.
- 56 – The number of deliveries it took for Misbah’s second-innings century at Abu Dhabi – equalling Viv Richards’s record set in 1986 for the West Indies against England at Antigua.
- 74 – The number of minutes it took Misbah to score his century, which was the second-fastest of all time in Test cricket. Australia’s Jack Gregory scored a century in 70 minutes against South Africa in 1921.
- 1 – The number of Tests Australia has won in Asia since 2007. Of 15 Tests played, it has ten losses and four draws, with the only win coming against Sri Lanka at Galle in 2011.
- 50 – Younis’s minimum average in each of the four innings of a Test Match. The only other batsmen who average 50-plus in all four innings, with a minimum of 10 knocks in each innings, are Don Bradman and Herbert Sutcliffe.
- 236 – The partnership between Younis and Azhar Ali for the third wicket at Abu Dhabi is the highest for that wicket for Pakistan against Australia.
- 40 – The number of years – before Younis achieved it in the first Test – since a batsman had made two hundreds in the same Test against Australia. It was the New Zealand opener Glenn Turner who scored 101 and 110 against them at Christchurch in 1974.
- 14 – The highest Test score by a batsman dismissed in the first over of the innings. In Pakistan’s second innings at Abu Dhabi, Shehzad was dismissed for 14.The previous best was 12 (444W) by AB de Villiers vs the West Indies in St John’s, 2005.
- 27 – The number of centuries Younis Khan has now scored, the highest for Pakistan in the history of Test cricket. Younis equalled Inzamam-ul-Haq’s Pakistan record mark of 25 with his century in the first innings of the first Test, broke the record in the second innings, and went further up with his double-century in the second Test.
- 3 and 28 – Younis Khan became the 3rd Pakistani batsman to score 8,000 Test runs, after Javed Miandad and Imzamam-ul-Haq. He also becomes the 28th batsman from any country to join the ‘8,000 Club’ and has already moved past Mark Waugh and Sir Garfield Sobers into 26th on the overall run-scoring list.
- 12 — Younis became the 12th batsman and the first Pakistani to score a century against all nine other Test playing nations. He joined an elite list that is now made up of the following, Gary Kirsten (South Africa), Steve Waugh (Australia), Sachin Tendulkar (India), Rahul Dravid (India), Marvan Atapattu (Sri Lanka), Brian Lara (West Indies), Adam Gilchrist (Australia), Ricky Ponting (Australia), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka), Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka), Jacques Kallis (South Africa) & Younis Khan (Pakistan)
- The series win was Pakistan’s first against Australia in 20 years.
- Victory by 356 runs was Pakistan’s biggest ever in Tests. Their previous best was by 341 runs against India in 2006. The margin of defeat was also Australia’s third highest in Test history.
- Younis Khan’s tally of 468 runs was the most by a Pakistani batsman in a 2-match series. It was also the most by any batsman in 2-Test series against Australia.
- Misbah-ul-Haq registered both – fastest fifty (off 21 balls) and fastest hundred (off 56 balls) – in Test cricket. He shares the record for fastest hundred with Viv Richards.
- Misbah-ul-Haq also became the first batsman aged over 40 to hit twin tons in a Test.
- Azhar Ali and Misbah both scored twin tons in the second Test. This was only the second such instance in Test cricket. Ian and Greg Chappell were the first ever to do it.
- Younis Khan also became only the second batsman and the first in 90 years to score three tons in three consecutive innings against Australia.
- In the first Test, David Warner became the first Australian to register 6 consecutive fifty-plus scores in Tests.
- Before Younis Khan’s twin tons in the first Test, no batsman had done that in 40 years against Australia. Within a week two more (Misbah and Azhar Ali) joined the list.
- Sarfraz also became only the second wicket-keeper batsman to register 5 consecutive 50-plus scores in Tests.
