1 – Annabel Sutherland became the first woman to score hundreds in three consecutive innings in Test cricket. She scored 210 against South Africa in 2024 and 163 against England last year, before her 129 against India at the WACA. Sutherland is also the first woman to score hundreds in three consecutive Test matches.
She scored 502 runs across these three innings, the most by a batter across any three successive innings in women’s Tests. The previous highest was 405 runs by Ellyse Perry between 2017 and 2019.
4 – Sutherland’s Test hundreds are the most by a woman for Australia. Her four hundreds are also joint-second by any batter in women’s Tests, only behind Janette Brittin (5).
Two of Sutherland’s four Test hundreds came at the WACA. Betty Wilson is the only other batter with multiple hundreds at one venue in women’s Tests, having scored two at the Adelaide Oval.
Sutherland is also the first woman to score multiple hundreds in day-night Test matches, having scored 163 in Melbourne last year.
10 – Innings Sutherland took to score four hundreds, the quickest among women to get there. Sandhya Agarwal was the previous fastest, having scored four centuries in 13 innings. Agarwal and Sutherland are the only women with four Test hundreds before turning 25.
Sutherland is also the joint-quickest batter from Australia, male or female, to score four Test hundreds, alongside Neil Harvey, who also took ten innings.
2 – Perry is only the second woman to score 1000-plus runs in each of the three international formats, after Charlotte Edwards. Perry has scored 4504 runs in ODIs and 2201 runs in T20Is, along with 1006 runs in Tests.
1006 – Perry’s runs in Test cricket are the most by a woman for Australia, going past Karen Rolton’s 1002. Rolton was the only Australian among the ten batters with 1000-plus runs in women’s Tests before Perry. She took 24 innings to complete the milestone, the joint-fifth-fastest to get there.
2 – Sutherland converted each of her four 50-plus scores into hundreds in Test cricket, making her the second woman to do so, after Claire Taylor. Six batters converted their first four 50-plus scores into hundreds in men’s Tests, with Neil Harvey being the only Australian among them.
133 – Balls Sutherland took to bring up her hundred against India on Saturday. It is the fastest recorded hundred in women’s Tests for Australia, bettering her hundred against England in 2023, which came off 148 balls.
4 – All four Test hundreds of Sutherland have been scored while batting at different positions. No other woman has hundreds at more than two different positions. Across Tests and ODIs, Sutherland has scored hundreds at five different batting positions, the most by any woman.
Three of Sutherland’s four hundreds came while batting at No. 5 or lower, the joint-most by any batter in women’s Tests, alongside Wilson (3).
89.37 – Sutherland’s batting average in Tests is the highest among women who have batted in at least ten innings. Across men’s and women’s Tests, only Donald Bradman (99.94) averages higher than Sutherland.
1998 – Previous instance of a woman scoring a century and taking a four-wicket haul in the same Test – Sri Lanka’s Chamani Seneviratna against Pakistan. Sutherland became only the sixth woman with this double in women’s Tests, and the second Australian, after Wilson.
3 – Women with 50-plus scores in each of their first four Tests. Jemimah Rodrigues continued her streak with the 52 she scored on Friday, to level Australia’s Denise Emerson and Deepti Sharma.
