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Stats and facts
Wisden CricInfo staff - August 14, 2001
The Headingley Test will be the 300th between the two countries. Australia have won 120 and England 93, with 86 drawn.
None of the last six Ashes Tests at Headingley has been drawn. England won in 1977, 1981 and 1985 but Australia have won the last three, in 1989, 1993 and 1997. They scored over 500 in an innings each time.
England didn't beat Australia in a Test at Headingley until 1956 (their tenth attempt).
Shane Warne needs five more wickets to reach 400 in Tests.
While Steve Waugh misses this Test, Mark Waugh plays in his 94th in a row, which puts him in third place on the all-time list behind Sunil Gavaskar (106) and the unapproachable Allan Border (153). While Mark keeps adding to his world record number of catches in Tests (160 before Headingley), Steve stays stuck on 97.
Alec Stewart goes into the Headingley Test needing to make one more dismissal to join Wasim Bari in fifth place on the all-time list (228), behind Alan Knott (269), Jeff Dujon (272), Rod Marsh (355) and Ian Healy (395). Stewart's total includes 36 catches taken while not keeping wicket.
Alec Stewart's father Micky also played Test cricket, including two Tests at Headingley. In the first, against Pakistan in 1962, he scored 86 – but his memories of the ground were spoiled by his appearance against West Indies the following year, when he was out for 2 and 0.
Australia have never put together a century partnership for the first wicket in a Test at Headingley. Their highest opening stand there is a rather lowly 86 by Michael Slater and Mark Taylor in 1993.
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