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Ashes 2015: Day 1- 4th Test. Facts and Figures.

Australia’s Dismal Innings.
60 Australia's total is their lowest in an Ashes Test since their 58 in Brisbane in 1936.
47 Australia have only once been out for fewer against any side (47 v South Africa in Cape Town in 2011) since that 1936 game.
14 Never before have extras been top scorer in an innings in an Ashes Test. And it was only the third time they have even been top scorer in an Australian innings.

18.3 - No team has ever been bowled out in fewer than 18.3 overs in the first innings of a Test match.
7 - It was the also the seventh fewest overs in which a team has ever been bowled out in any innings of a Test.

Broad’s Amazing Stats.
8-15 Only two men have taken cheaper eight-wicket hauls in Tests: George Lohmann, who took 8-7 v South Africa in 1896 and Johnny Briggs, who took 8-11 in 1889.
1956 Broad now has the third-best figures for England in Ashes history - only Jim Laker's 10-53 and 9-37, both at Old Trafford in 1956, can top them.
1994 Broad's 8-15 is his best bowling figures, beating the 7 for 44 he took v New Zealand at Lord's in 2013. They are also the best figures for England since Devon Malcolm's 9-57 against South Africa in 1994.
19 Stuart Broad took just 19 balls to pick up his five wickets - the quickest ever five-for at the start of a Test, beating Vernon Philander's 25 for South Africa v New Zealand in Cape Town in 2013. It was joint quickest ever five-for, equalling Ernie Toshack's for Australia v India at the Gabba in 1947.