Australia vs Pakistan Test Series : RT Ponting and AR Border share the Australian record of most test fifties
Ponting 89 in the second innings of the Hobart test against Pakistan represents his 90th fifty in tests {39 centuries and 51 half centuries}. At the end of the test, he shares the Australian record for most test fifties with AR Border who also has registered 90 fifties {27 centuries plus 63 half centuries}
SR Tendulkar with 98 fifties to his credit {43 centuries and 55 half centuries} holds the record for most fifties in the annals of test cricket
{All Stats as at the end of the first day’s play of the first test between Bangladesh and India at Chittagong}