(Reuters) – The records set by Australia’s Ashton Agar and Phil Hughes against England during the first Ashes test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham yesterday.
* Agar and Hughes’ partnership of 163 is the highest for a 10th wicket in tests. It was previously 151, jointly held by New Zealand’s Brian Hastings and Richard Collinge (1973) and Mushtaq Ahmed and Azhar Mahmood of Pakistan (1998).
* Agar’s 98 is the highest score by a test number 11 – beating West Indian Tino Best’s 95 made against England last year. The previous best by an Australian number 11 was 61 by Glenn McGrath against New Zealand in 2004.
* Agar is the first debutant number 11 to score a test half-century, the previous highest score was Australian Warwick Armstrong’s 45 in 1902.
* It was only the third time in test history the 10th-wicket pair have doubled their team’s total. Australia were 117-9 and then 280 all out.
