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For an unprecedented 17th Test victory in-a-row, the Aussies have to pull off the second-highest run chase in the history.
Aussie target 413
8226;3698212; No team has ever chased more than that to win a game on Australian soil even Don Bradman8217;s The Invincibles didn8217;t have to score more than 404 at Leeds in 1948.
OVER 400
8226;Only 3 teams in 1862 Tests, have scored more than that in the fourth innings to win.
8226; 418: West Indies hold that record for 7 to beat Australia by three wickets St John8217;s, 2002-03.
8226; 404/3: Australia were the first team to win a Test by scoring more than 4008212;beat England by seven wickets, Leeds, 1948.
8226; 406/4: India, the second team to do the same, won by six wickets over West Indies, Port-of-Spain, 1975-76.
400 in fourth innings
8226;It has happened 13 times so far. Of them three won, four drew, six lost.
8226; At the WACA: The record of highest fourth inning total to win here is held by Australia 8211; 342/8 for eight vs India, 1977-78. won by two wickets.
