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Australia's whitewash of the Test summer against Pakistan and New Zealand was one of their most dominant on record, and the numbers are there to show it.
THE FIGURES THAT SHOW AUSTRALIA'S DOMINANCE OVER TEST SUMMER
* Australia won every match by at least 240 runs, with two matches won by an innings and the other three by 247, 296 and 279 runs.
* It was just the 10th time in history Australia have whitewashed an entire Test summer.
* Every Test was won inside four days, marking the first time in history Australia had done so in a summer of more than one Test.
* Australia averaged 52.67 runs for every wicket with the bat, and 22.78 per wicket with the ball.
* The Australian bowlers took a wicket once every 45 balls, the fourth-best strike-rate of any summer of three or more Tests.
* The Aussies held a 200-run first-innings lead in all five Tests, although their SCG advantage was later reduced to 198 after New Zealand received a five-run penalty.
* Marnus Labuschagne's 896 runs were the most by an Australian in any five-Test summer in history. He was not dismissed by a bowler for less than 50, only run out for 19 in the second innings in Melbourne.
* David Warner's 786 runs were the most by an opener in a five-Test Australian summer. His average of 131 was also the highest of an opener in a summer of any length.
* Australia forced New Zealand to bowl on every day of the Trans-Tasman Trophy. In comparison, the Aussie quicks had three days off.
* Neil Wagner was forced to send down 157.3 overs by New Zealand. That is the heaviest workload of any quick touring Australia in a three-Test series this century.
