The numbers: Records broken at Gabba

9 – Number of the hundreds scored by Asad Shafiq at number six, the most by anyone in the 139-year history of Test cricket. He went past the great Sir Garfield Sobers who had scored eight at this position. Overall it was Shafiq's tenth century in Tests, one of those coming at No.4 against England at The Oval earlier this year.

2716 – Number of runs scored by Shafiq at No.6, the fifth most by anyone in Tests and now just behind AW Greig (2741), VVS Laxman (2760), Hashan Tillakaratne (2843) and Steve Waugh (3165).

140 – Number of balls taken by Shafiq to reach his hundred, making it the second fastest of his ten Test hundreds – the 123-ball 100 against New Zealand at Sharjah in 2014 remains his quickest century. Of the 25 instances of Pakistan batsmen scoring a hundred in Tests in Australia, Shafiq’s 140 ball effort is joint-fourth fastest besides Majid Khan and only behind Ijaz Ahmed (137), Saeed Anwar (133) and Mohammad Yousuf (117).

2 – The number of Pakistan batsmen who have scored a fourth-innings hundred in Australia. Shafiq became the only second player to achieve this feat. The first was Ijaz Ahmed with his 121 in Melbourne in 1990. The highest fourth-innings score by any batsman Down Under Kumar Sangakkara's 192 in Hobart in 2007, the innings after which umpire Rudi Koertzen had to apologize for his wrong decision that prevented him from scoring a double hundred and possibly chasing 507. 

382 – Number of runs Pakistan have scored in the fourth innings with a day still to go. It is their joint-highest total in last innings of the Tests, leveled with the 382 they scored against Sri Lanka at Pallekele in 2015 - a match they won by seven wickets.

It is also the highest-ever fourth-innings total at the Gabba, going past England’s 370 in 2006, and sixth highest on any of Australia’s grounds. The highest is 445 by India that came in a losing cause in Adelaide in 1978.

123 – Number of overs batted by Pakistan in the innings, the third longest they have batted in a fourth innings behind their 129-over long innings against West Indies in Port of Spain in 1988 and 137.5 overs in Melbourne in 1990.

55.42 – Younis Khan’s batting average in the fourth innings, the third highest among all batsmen who have at least 1000 runs in the last innings. The highest is 58.76 by Geoff Boycott, followed by 58.25 by Sunil Gavaskar. Younis also holds the record for being the only batsman to have five hundreds in the fourth innings.

189 – The number of minutes the evening session lasted for. It started at 7.00pm local time and was extended to 9.30pm. The umpires, thinking a result was a possibility, added eight more overs to the day, which took 39 minutes. Stumps was called at 10.09pm with the final session taking three hours and nine minutes. There were 90 overs bowled in the day, 41 of those coming in the last session, despite 92 minutes lost to the two rain interruptions, an advantage of playing day-night Tests.

158 – The number of runs added by seventh- and eighth-wicket partnerships, the second most by these two wickets while chasing a target in Tests. Mohammad Aamir and Shafiq added 92 runs for the seventh wicket, which was followed by 66 between Wahab Riaz and Shafiq. The highest is 161 by West Indies against England in Antigua last year.

11 – The number of maiden overs bowled by Josh Hazlewood, the joint most he has bowled in an innings in his career. He also bowled 11 overs without conceding a run against New Zealand at Hagley Oval and South Africa at the WACA earlier this year.

44 – Number of wickets taken by Mitchell Starc in 2016, the second most by a pacer this year and only behind Stuart Broad (47). The Englishman has played 14 Tests compared to Starc's seven. The latter has two more wickets and a Test to take 50 wickets in a calendar year for the first time in his career.

50 – The number of minutes for which Australia kept Azhar Ali scoreless at the start of day four. The batsman, who also had to bear the brunt of a Hazlewood bouncer in the morning, scored his first run in eleventh over of the day. He ended up scoring 71, his first fifty on Australian soil.  

17.75 – Aamir’s batting average against Australia which is his best against any team. He has played ten innings against the Aussies in which he has piled 142 runs. He scored 48 at the Gabba, falling two runs short of his maiden fifty in Tests. 

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