Records are meant to be broken and that is what happened in the opening Test of the Ashes series. Several records were broken in the first Test while there were multiple achievements at the Gabba. The notable inductees include Nathan Lyon, Travis Head and Alex Carey as they wrote their names in the record books.
Nathan Lyon bags 400 Test wickets
On Saturday, Lyon became the latest inductee in the list of 400 wickets as he dismissed Dawid Malan in the 74th over of the match. The 34-year old batter added only two more runs to his 80 runs scored overnight. Interestingly, it took 326 days for Lyon to bag his 400th wicket. He is the 17th player to achieve the milestone in men's Test cricket and the third Australian to do so after Glenn McGrath (563 wickets) and Shane Warne (708 wickets).
Lyon joins Murali
Lyon now has a special distinction after picking up 400 wickets. He has scored more than 1000 runs and grabbed more than 50 catches in Test cricket. Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan (800 wickets) is the only other player to achieve this feat and Lyon will have to use all his weapons to overtake the former Sri Lanka great.
Travis Head registers third fastest hundred in Ashes
Head scripted a memorable comeback to the national side as he marked his return with a ton. Head's century was the third-fastest in the history of Ashes; Head took only 85 balls to score the century on Day 2. Adam Gilchrist still holds the record for the fastest hundred in Ashes as he took only 57-balls in the 2006-07 Ashes. The second-fastest hundred is registered by an Englishman- in 1902 Gilbert Jessop took 76-balls to register his century.
Alex Carey's dream debut despite failure with the bat
Carey was only drafted into the team after Tim Paine relinquished the Test captaincy and eventually announced an indefinite break from cricket after a publicised sexting scandal last month. Carey took full advantage of the situation with the gloves. Carey was involved in eight dismissals, joint-most for any wicketkeeper on debut.
Most dismissals by a wicket-keeper on Test debut-
8 wickets:- Brian Taber vs South Africa, Johannesburg, 1966
8 wickets:- Chris Read vs New Zealand, Birmingham, 1999
8 wickets:- Alex Carey vs England, Brisbane, 2021
