Records tumble in third-shortest Ashes Test

A Test match for the ages

6 – Ashes Tests have ended inside the scheduled first two days of play. This is the first such instance in over 100 years and the first ever in Australia. The last time it happened was at Trent Bridge in 1921.

847 – Balls bowled in the Perth Test – the third shortest in Ashes history and shortest ever on Australian soil. Both shorter Tests came in the 1888 Ashes series in England: 788 balls at Old Trafford and 792 at Lord's.

Shortest Ashes Tests by balls bowled

405 – Balls faced by England across both innings: 32.5 overs in the first innings and 34.4 overs in the second. It is the third shortest they have faced in a Test where they were bowled out twice.

7.23 – Run rate for Australia in their fourth innings chase – the highest ever in a successful chase of 200 or more in Tests. They took just 28.2 overs to reach the target of 205.

3 – This was the fourth instance of a team successfully chasing a 200+ target in the fourth innings, after each of the first three innings ended under 200.

9 – Consecutive defeats for England in Perth – across both the WACA and Perth Stadium. This was their first Test at Perth Stadium, where they became the first side in six games to lose after batting first.

Travis Head rewrites record books

69 – Balls faced by Head for his century – the joint fastest by an opening batter in Test history. He equaled David Warner, who hit a 69-ball ton against India at the WACA in 2012.

Fastest 100s in Test cricket

1 – There is only one faster century in Ashes Tests than Head's 69-ball effort: Adam Gilchrist's 57-ball century at the WACA in 2006. Head's is the fastest ever in a fourth innings chase in Tests.

21.3 – The point in Australia's innings where Head reached his century. Only two batters have reached a century earlier in an innings where ball-by-ball details are available.

123 – Head's score is the highest by an opener in the fourth innings of an Ashes Test in the 21st century.

Other numbers from the day's play

10/113 – Mitchell Starc's match figures: 7/58 and 3/55. He is the first Australian bowler since Shane Warne in 2005 to take a ten-wicket haul in an Ashes Test.

4 – Zak Crawley became the fourth English opener to bag a pair in Ashes contests.

1639 – Balls taken by Scott Boland to reach 50 Test wickets at home – the fastest ever to the milestone in Australia.