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Following are the statistical highlights of the third day's play in the first Test between India and Australia in Melbourne on Saturday.

# Matthew Hayden [Images] completed 8,000 runs in 92 Tests -- 8003 runs at an average of 53.00. He is the fifth Australian player and the 18th in Test annals to have amassed 8000 or more runs.

# Allan Border [Images] (11174 in 156 Tests) heads the chart for Australia, followed by Steve Waugh (10927 in 168), Ricky Ponting [Images] (9515 in 113), Mark Waugh [Images] (8029 in 128) and Hayden (8003 in 92).

# Phil Jaques (66 & 51) for the second successive Test, has recorded 50-plus in each innings of a Test match.  With six successive fifty-plus innings - Jaques has equalled an Australian record for most 50-plus innings.

# Harbhajan Singh [Images] (3/101) produced his best performance in Australia, bettering his 1 for 101 in the second innings of the 2003-04 Brisbane Test.

# Harbhajan, with Ponting's wicket, has completed his 250 wickets.  He is the fourth Indian bowler to have captured 250 wickets or more in Test cricket. Anil Kumble [Images] (591) tops the table, followed by Kapil Dev [Images] (434), Bishan Singh Bedi [Images] (266) and Harbhajan Singh (251).

# Michael Clarke [Images] (73) posted his 7th fifty - his third against India.

# Kumble, with Clarke's wicket, took his tally to 49 (ave.29.40) in 10 Tests in 2007.  Both Muralitharan (49 in 8 Tests at 22.30 runs apiece) and Kumble share the record for most wickets in 2007.

# With Jaques' wicket as 'caught and bowled', his 31st in this fashion, Kumble has equalled Muttiah Muralitharan's record of 31 'caught and bowled' dismissals.