How's stat?!published at 01:00 Greenwich Mean Time 26 December 2021
Andy Zaltzman
BBC Test Match Special statistician
In five opening partnerships in this series England's openers have scored 38 runs with an average partnership of 7.6.
In series in Australia you have to go back to 1876-77, the first Test series ever played, to find an example of England openers having a worse average partnership.