India’s score of 150 in Perth is their joint-lowest score in the first innings of a Test match on Australian soil. They were bowled out for 150 after batting first in Sydney in 2000. Only once have India registered a score lower than this in the first innings in Australia – being all-out for 58 while batting second in Brisbane in 1947.
3 previous instances of visiting teams being bowled out for less than 200 after batting first in the first match of a Test series in Australia. England managed only 134 in 1958 and 147 in 2021, while Sri Lanka were all-out for 144 in a day-night Test in 2019, all three at the Gabba. 5 all-out scores under 160 for India in Tests in 2024, including being all-out for 150 on Friday. India have been bowled out for less than 160 in Tests in a calendar year only twice – six times in 1952 and 1959 and five times in 2018.
Rishabh Pant’s 661 runs in Tests against Australia are the most by any visiting wicketkeeper on Australian soil, surpassing Alan Knott’s tally of 643 runs. Pant has batted in 13 innings in Australia and scored no less than 23 runs in all of them. 18 batsmen to be dismissed for zero for India in Tests in 2024, with Devdutt Padikkal being the most recent. This is the most Indian batsmen to be dismissed for zero in Tests in a calendar year, ahead of 17 each in 1983 and 2008.
7 batsmen to score the most runs in an innings batting at No. 8 or below on their Test debut for India, including Nitish Kumar Reddy. Only two of the last six have happened in the last 70 years – Stuart Binny against England in 2014 and Balwinder Sandhu against Pakistan in 1983.
26 batsmen to score more than 3000 runs in Test cricket for India, including KL Rahul, who achieved the feat in Perth on Friday. His current batting average of 33.78 is the third-lowest among these 26 batsmen, behind R Ashwin (25.92) and Kapil Dev (31.05).
Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon together have taken 505 wickets in 31 Tests played. They have now become the first quartet to take more than 500 wickets in Test cricket. Cummins has 132 wickets, the most among the four, while Hazlewood, Starc and Lyon have taken 126, 125 and 122 wickets respectively. (Only players with more than 100 career wickets are considered part of the quartet)
1 Cummins dismissed Pant for the first time in Test cricket. Pant has faced Cummins in 12 innings so far, in which he has scored 104 runs off 168 balls with the help of ten fours and a six.
