Day 3 : Records Perth Test 24-11-2024

 KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal scripted history on 24th November  by registering the highest first-wicket partnership for an Indian pair in Test cricket on Australian soil. Rahul and Jaiswal shared a monumental 201-run opening partnership against Australia on Day 3 of the opening Test. This stand not only became India's highest first-wicket partnership in Australia, surpassing Sunil Gavaskar and Kris Srikkanth's 191-run effort at Sydney in 1986, but it also marked the first time an Indian opening pair crossed the 200-run mark-Down Under. The partnership, is also the highest by a visiting team outside England since Jack Hobbs and Wilfred Rhodes' iconic 323-run stand in Melbourne in 1912. 

Visiting Opening Pairs with 200-Plus Stands in Australia

Runs	Players	Team	Venue	Year
323	Jack Hobbs, Wilfred Rhodes	ENG	Melbourne	1912
283	Jack Hobbs, Herbert Sutcliffe	ENG	Melbourne	1925
234	Bob Barber, Geoffrey Boycott	ENG	Sydney	1966
223	Bill Athey, Chris Broad	ENG	Perth (WACA)	1986
203	Michael Atherton, Graham Gooch	ENG	Adelaide	1991
201	Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul	IND	Perth (Optus)	2024

Their partnership also ended India's 19-year wait for a century-plus opening stand in Australia, the last being a 123-run effort by Virender Sehwag and Akash Chopra at Sydney in 2004.

Yashasvi Jaiswal, who is playing his first Test against Australia in Perth these days, joined legendary Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, and Virat Kohli in an elite list on Sunday (November 24) by becoming the fifth Indian cricketer to score a Test century in Perth.

The highest individual score by an Indian in Perth was Sunil Gavaskar's 127, achieved in 1977 at the WACA Ground during a Test against Australia. Despite this gritty performance, India narrowly lost that match by two wickets At the Optus Stadium, Virat Kohli's 123 in 2018 was the highest score by an Indian batter. This innings also came in a losing effort, as Australia secured a 146-run victory. 

Yashasvi Jaiswal now holds  the  record of highest individual score at Perth.

Yashasvi Jaiswal also has 34 sixes in 2024. He now has hit the most number of sixes in a calendar year in the longest format of the game. Jaiswal has broken the record of Brendon McCullum, who hit 33 sixes in Tests for New Zealand in 2014.

Highest Test score by Indian batter in Perth

161 – Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2024

127 – Sunil Gavaskar, 1977

123 – Virat Kohli, 2018

114 – Sachin Tendulkar, 1992

100 – Mohinder Amarnath, 1977

Virat Kohli became the Indian batter with most Test hundreds on Australian soil. He broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record. Jack Hobbs holds the record for most Test centuries by an overseas batter in Australia (9).

Virat Kohli made the record for most runs by a visiting batter in Australia. He went past Jack Hobbs (9). The record for most hundreds by a batter in any visiting batter is Don Bradman (11 hundreds in England)

Virat Kohli made the record for scoring multiple hundreds in Tests at the Perth Stadium. The overall record is held by Marnus Labuschagne, who has three centuries to his name at the Optus Stadium.

Virat Kohli became the fourth Indian batter to score 30 or more hundreds in Tests. Sachin Tendulkar (51), Rahul Dravid (36) and Sunil Gavaskar (34) are the other batters.