21.   Johnson pitched Seattle to victory in game three at Cleveland after a splite of the opening pair in Seattle.

22.   Most double-century stands by an opening pair in Test matches.

23.   One of the key selection posers the Australians will hope to resolve in South Africa is the opening batting pair.

24.   Stuart Williams and captain Richie Richardson, an experimental West Indies opening pair, failed once more against the mean, purposeful bowling from Paul Reiffel and McGrath.

25.   The Australian innings was a two-player act presented by opening pair Mark Waugh and skipper Mark Taylor.

26.   The opening pair had both been bowled by ther line and length of the otherwise innocuous seam of Billy Stelling.