India achieved a number of milestones in its innings, producing the biggest total by a touring test team in Australia -- improving on England's 636 in 1928-1929 -- and its biggest ever total in tests, surpassing its 676 for seven against Sri Lanka at Kanpur in 1986.
Tendulkar set individual and partnership records with his third test double hundred, which was the second biggest test innings by an Indian, behind V.V.S Laxman's 281 against Australia at Calcutta in 2001. He also shared a 353-run partnership for the fourth-wicket here with Laxman (178).
Tendulkar, who started his 111th test with 8,964 runs, became only the fourth batsman to surpass 9,000 test runs and moved equal with Waugh on 32 test centuries, second to former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar (34).
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