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Australia's batsmen have set a host of statistical benchmarks in their first innings against Pakistan in the second Test in Adelaide.

KEY BENCHMARKS IN AUSTRALIA'S INNINGS AGAINST PAKISTAN

* David Warner makes 335 not out, the second-highest Test score by an Australian behind Matthew Hayden's 380 against Zimbabwe in 2003

* Warner's total is the 10th highest in Test history

* Warner is the seventh Australian to hit a Test triple-century

* This Australian summer, Warner is averaging 388 across all international games. He's made 776 runs with scores of 100no, 60no, 57no, 2no, 20 and 48no in six Twenty20 internationals, followed by 154 and 335no in two Test innings

* Warner's knock is the highest by any Test batsman at Adelaide Oval, surpassing Don Bradman's 299no against South Africa in 1932

* Steve Smith becomes the fastest in history to make 7000 Test runs, taking 126 innings to reach the milestone, five fewer than England's Walter Hammond, who had held the record since 1946

* Smith passes Sir Donald Bradman's aggregate of 6996 runs to be Australia's 11th highest-scorer in Tests

* Warner and Marnus Labuschagne's 361-run partnership is Australia's best Test partnership against Pakistan, eclipsing the 352 of Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke in Hobart, 2010.