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#INDvAUS: Virat Kohli's prestigious streak comes to an end after 104 games

Virat Kohli walking back to the pavilion without troubling the scorers is a very rare sight in international cricket.

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An Aussie spinner troubling Indian batsmen is as rare as Virat Kohli walking back to the pavilion without troubling the scorers. But fortunately for Australia both happened on the same day as the visitors seized huge advantage on the second day of the first Test in Pune on Friday.

Here are some of the interesting statistical highlights of the day:

# India's 105 is their fifth lowest completed innings totals vs Australia in Tests - their second lowest vs Australia in Tests in India behind the 104 at Mumbai.

# India were 94 for three at one time, losing their last seven wickets for eleven runs - their worst ever seven-wicket collapse in Tests, obliterating the 18 vs New Zealand at Christchurch in 1989-90.

# Virat Kohli has registered his first duck as captain in International matches - Tests/ODIs/T20Is.

# After recording a duck versus England in the Cardiff ODI on August 27, 2014, he was without a duck in 104 consecutive innings in International cricket.

# Kohli's fifth duck in Tests is his second vs Australia - his first being at Melbourne in December 2011.

# Kohli's previous four innings vs Australia in Tests were - 169 & 54 at Melbourne and 147 & 46 at Sydney in the 2014-15 series.

# Wriddhiman Saha's fifth duck in Tests is his second vs Australia.

# Saha's performance vs Australia has been poor in Tests, aggregating 111 at an average of 15.85 in seven innings in Tests.

# Shaun Marsh has recorded his fourth duck vs India - his eighth in Tests.

# In eight Tests vs India, Marsh is averaging only 20.50 - his tally being 287 runs in 14 innings, including two fifties.

# KL Rahul's 64 is his second highest score vs Australia next only to the 110 at Sydney in January 2015.

# Steve O'Keefe (6/35) has recorded his first five-wicket haul in Tests, eclipsing the 3 for 53 vs Pakistan at Sydney in January 2017. His excellent bowling figures are the second best by an Australian left-arm spinner vs India in Tests behind the 6 for 9 by Michael Clarke at Mumbai in November 2004.

# In all, O'Keefe's performance is the third best by a visiting left-arm spinner in Tests in India. England's Hedley Verity remains the only bowler to bag seven wickets - 7 for 49 off 23.5 overs at Chennai in February 1934.

# Steve Smith is the eleventh batsman from Australia to complete 1000 runs or more vs India in Tests - his aggregate being 1016 runs at an average of 92.36, including four centuries and four fifties, in only seven Tests.

# Smith is the fifth batsman to complete 1,000 runs in only seven Tests, joining Everton Weekes, Younis Khan, Andy Flower and Matthew Hayden.

# Smith's impressive average of 92.36 is the third highest among the players with 1,000 runs or more in Tests vs India - the highest being 106.78 by Sir Everton Weekes (WI).

# Ravichandran Ashwin took his tally of wickets to 67 at 24.31 in ten Tests - the second highest tally in a season next only to the 78 (ave.16.24) in 12 Tests by Dale Steyn (SA) in 2007-08.

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