KEY STATISTICS FROM INDIA'S 2-1 SERIES WIN OVER AUSTRALIA:
RESULTS:
* First Test: India (250 and 307) bt Australia (235 and 291) by 31 runs in Adelaide
* Second Test: Australia (326 and 243) bt India (283 and 140) by 146 runs in Perth
* Third Test: India (7(dec)-443 and 8(dec)-140) bt Australia (326 and 243) by 146 runs in Melbourne
* Fourth Test: India (7(dec)-622) drew with Australia (300 and 0-6) in Sydney
LEADING RUN-SCORERS:
* Cheteshwar Pujara: 521 at 74.42
* Rishabh Pant: 350 at 58.33
* Virat Kohli: 282 at 40.28
LEADING WICKET-TAKERS:
* Jasprit Bumrah: 21 wickets at 17
* Nathan Lyon: 21 wickets at 30.42
* Mohammed Shami: 16 wickets at 26.18
RECORDS BROKEN:
* India's series win in Australia marks their first in 12 attempts, dating back to 1947-48. It is also their first in 10 years outside Asia or the spin-friendly Caribbean
* The failure of any Australian batsman to reach three figures marked the first time the hosts had gone through a home four-Test series without scoring a century
* India's leads: India's massive leads of 292 and 322 in Melbourne and Sydney respectively were two of their biggest four against Australia
* Cheteshwar Pujara's 1258 balls faced were the fourth-most by an Indian in a Test series against Australia, and was second only to Alastair Cook - who had five Tests in 2010-11 - in terms of a tourist in Australia since 1971
* India became the first touring side to have the option of making Australia follow-on twice in one summer in Sydney and Melbourne. Their decision to enforce it at the SCG also marked the first time Australia had followed on at home in three decades, and anywhere since 2005
* India's back-to-back-to-back declarations in the first two innings in Melbourne and first dig in Sydney marked the first time in history a touring team had declared three times in a row in Australia
* Australia's average of 25.9 runs per wicket with the bat is their second lowest since the start of the 1980s, with only the horror home series loss to South Africa two seasons ago marginally worse
* Marcus' Harris series-high score of 79 for Australia marked the first time in any Test series of three matches or more that a team had a highest score below 80 since New Zealand's 1958 tour of England.
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