Michael Clarke’s name can now be whispered in the same breath as cricketing immortals Don Bradman and Wally Hammond.

The Australian captain’s run gorging against India lifted him into the revered company of peerless Sir Don and England legend Hammond.

They’re the only cricketers to score a double-century and a triple-century in the same Test series.

Clarke’s regal 210 against India in the fourth Test in Adelaide on Wednesday came just two knocks after his unbeaten 329 in Sydney.

His thirst for runs on a parched Adelaide Oval was only matched by his captaincy predecessor, Ricky Ponting.

Ponting compiled 221 – his sixth Test double-ton – and combined with Clarke for a record-breaking partnership.

The pair may be Australian cricket’s odd couple; chalk and cheese; the blue collar Ponting and fashionista Clarke.

But batting together against India in Adelaide, they melded into one of the most formidable unions the game has witnessed.

Ponting and Clarke put on 386 runs, at better than a run a minute.

It was a record partnership by Australians against India – surpassing Clarke and Mike Hussey’s 334 run mark set just weeks ago in Sydney.

It was the largest stand by allcomers in an Adelaide Oval Test.

It was the fourth highest partnership by Australians in Test history – the benchmark remains the 451 stand by Bradman and Bill Ponsford against England at The Oval in 1934.

Clarke and Ponting fell just three runs short of eclipsing Bradman and Ponsford’s Australian Test record fourth-wicket partnership of 388, also against the Poms in 1934.

And, if you please, just a few more stats.

Clarke, since his first series as full-time Test captain last September, has scored 1130 runs at an average of 66.47 – almost 20 runs a dig higher than his pre-captaincy career.

And the new leader, who still answers to the nickname Pup despite turning 31 in April, has now made 589 runs at an average of 147.25 in this Indian series.

They’re figures that even Bradman and Hammond would be proud of.