A look at all the key numbers from Day 3 of the ongoing first Test between Australia and India in Perth:
3 – Yashasvi Jaiswal became just the third Indian batter to register a hundred on his maiden Test appearance in Australia, after 101 by ML Jaisimha and 113 by Sunil Gavaskar – both in Brisbane – in 1967-68 and 1977-78 respectively. Coincidentally, all three came in India’s second innings of the given Test.
1568 runs aggregated by Jaiswal from his first 15 Tests, the most among Indian players, surpassing 1420 by Vijay Hazare. Overall, only Don Bradman (2115), Mark Taylor (1618), and Everton Weekes (1576) exceed Jaiswal’s tally from the first 15 Tests of a career.
4 – Jaiswal now has four 150-plus scores in Tests. Only Don Bradman had more such scores in the format before turning 23 (5), with the young Indian opener being the joint-second in this list featuring Javed Miandad and Graeme Smith.
2 – Jaiswal also became just the second batter in the history of Test cricket to convert each of his first four tons into 150-plus scores, after Graeme Smith, who had converted three of them into doubles.
4 – Jaiswal also became the fourth Indian batter to bag a duck and register a 150-plus score in the same Test.
Duck and 150-plus score for India in a Test match
35 sixes by Jaiswal in Tests in 2024, the most by anyone in a calendar year surpassing Brendon McCullum’s 33 in 2014.
201 runs added by Jaiswal and KL Rahul for the opening wicket, the highest opening partnership for India in Australia, surpassing 191 by Sunil Gavaskar and Kris Srikkanth in Sydney in 1986. It was also the sixth 200-plus stand by a visiting opening pair in Australia – each of the previous five were for England.
200-plus opening stands by visiting pairs in Australia
378 – The Rahul-Jaiswal partnership lasted 63 overs (378 balls). The only other instance of an Indian opening pair surviving more than 50 overs in a SENA country in the 21st century featured Wasim Jaffer and Dinesh Karthik at Newlands, Cape Town in 2007 (153 in 56.1 overs). It is also the longest opening stand for a visiting pair in Australia this century, only behind 398 balls (66.2 overs) by Alastair Cook and Andrew Strauss in a match-saving effort in the 2010/11 Ashes opener at The Gabba.
7 Test hundreds for Virat Kohli in Australia, a number exceeded only by Jack Hobbs (9) and matched by Wally Hammond (7) among visiting batters Down Under. It was also Kohli’s 10th hundred across formats in Australia, the most by a visiting batter in the country. Kohli’s seven hundreds in Australia is also the joint record for India in a visiting country alongside Sunil Gavaskar’s 7 in the West Indies.
Most Test hundreds in an away country for India
7 – Sunil Gavaskar in West Indies
7 – Virat Kohli in Australia
6 – Rahul Dravid in England
6 – Sachin Tendulkar in Australia
116 catches bagged by Kohli in Tests, the third most among Indian fielders (non-wicketkeepers) in the format after Rahul Dravid (210 – 209 for India and 1 for ICC XI) and 135 by VVS Laxman.
Most catches by Indian fielders in Tests
210 – Rahul Dravid
135 – VVS Laxman
116 – Virat Kohli
115 – Sachin Tendulkar
108 – Sunil Gavaskar
337 – India exceeded their first innings score of 150 all-out by 337 runs in their second, declaring at 487/6. That’s their second biggest improvement in a second innings score from the first in an away Test, after 346 (164 & 510) at Headingley in 1967.
Highest improvement from 1st inns to 2nd for India in away Tests