That's a fact! What you'd like to know about India's series win

14 October,2010 08:30 AM IST |   |  Correspondent

Ricky Ponting returns to Australia without winning a Test in India as skipper in seven attempts


>> Ricky Ponting returns to Australia without winning a Test in India as skipper in seven attempts.

>> India have now chased down 200 plus targets on three consecutive occasions (Colombo, Mohali and now Bangalore). Overall, they have chased over 200 only 10 times out of which seven victories have come since 2000.

>> Cheteshwar Pujara's knock of 72 is the second-highest fourth-innings score by an Indian debutant.

>> Australia suffered their first clean-sweep since 1982 in Pakistan. In fact, Australia have suffered only five Test clean sweeps since the inception of the game - with three of them before 1900.

>> It's the first time since 1988 that Australia lost three consecutive Tests. (vs Pakistan Leeds, vs India at Mohali and Bangalore.

>> Yesterday'su00a0win was India's first Test victory in Bangalore since 1995 ufffd against Lee Germon's New Zealand side.

>> This was India's third instance of a clean sweep - and the first since 1993-94u00a0 ufffd against Sri Lanka.

>> Mahendra Singh Dhoni continues to maintain a 100 % win record against Australia - fouru00a0 Tests, four wins.
Dhoni continues to maintain a clean record as captain since 2008 by not losing a series.

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