TO- PSPIN SPECIAL

÷ THE 237-run partnership between Dawid Malan and Jonny Bairstow was a record for England’s fifth wicket in Ashes cricket, beating the 206 runs shared by Eddie Paynter and Denis Compton at Trent Bridge in 1938.

BROAD SNR THE BOSS

DAWID MALAN fell 22 runs short of England’s highest score at the WACA, set by Stuart Broad’s dad Chris... England’s top scores at the WACA Chris Broad (1986) 162 Dawid Malan (2017) 140 Dawid Gower (1986) 136

...BUT BROAD JNR FALTERS

43.4 STUART BROAD’S bowling average in the Ashes so far. It is his worst in a series in which he has appeared more than once since Sri Lanka’s tour of England in 2011 when his eight wickets cost 48.75. ÷ ENGLAND’S Alastair Cook, James Anderson and Stuart Broad are playing their 100th Test together. Only two Indian trios — Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman (118) and Tendulkar, Dravid and Sourav Ganguly (103) — have featured together more. ÷ WHEN Joe Root made a positive challenge to the decision to give Cameron Bancroft not LBW to Craig Overton, he became the most successful captain to have made 20 or more challenges in Tests with a 34 per cent return.