17 dismissals in Perth on Friday was the most on an opening day in a Test match in Australia in 70 years

The 17 wickets were the astir seen connected Australian shores connected the opening time of a Test lucifer successful implicit 72 years since January 1952. Only six different days successful Test cricket person seen much wickets connected Day 1 successful Australia, occurring betwixt 1888 and 1952.

Most wickets fallen connected Day 1 of a Test successful Australia

Led by Jasprit Bumrah’s spellbinding beingness (4/17) and nagging enactment from Harshit Rana and Mohammed Siraj, India pushed Australia down to an unpleasant territory, 1 they person lone been to erstwhile successful the erstwhile 231 squad innings this century.

India dislodged 7 Australian batters for lone 59, making it the joint-lowest people astatine which Australia mislaid arsenic galore wickets astatine location since 2001.

Only South Africa had produced a akin effect with the shot this century, having reduced Australia to 59/7 earlier bowling them retired for 85 astatine Hobart successful 2016.

Australia’s worst batting collapses astatine location successful 21st period (Since Jan 1, 2001)

Best for the champion – Steve Smith’s uncommon aureate duck

Australia No. 4 Steve Smith was trapped for a aureate duck by Bumrah, making it lone the 2nd specified lawsuit of his prolific 196-innings career.

Smith’s archetypal aureate duck occurred successful his 36th Test innings successful 2014, with a menacing Dale Steyn dismissing him leg-before, similar Bumrah, astatine Port Elizabeth.

No Run, Marnus!

Marnus Labuschagne could not marque astir of his fortunes for erstwhile aft being dropped by Virat Kohli connected 0 connected the 2nd shot of his innings. Labuschagne played retired 50 much deliveries but with nominal leeway, adding lone 2 runs successful his vigil.

Labuschagne’s sound was the slowest innings ever by an Australian batter, for a minimum of 50 deliveries faced successful a Test innings. In fact, nary top-order batter has ever played an innings rather similar what the 30-year-old astatine Perth connected Friday. Labuschagne’s 3.84 onslaught complaint is the lowest for immoderate batter successful the apical 6 who has managed to people astatine slightest 2 runs successful a Test innings.

The Optus has mostly been Labuschagne’s favourite location batting track, having scored 521 runs with 3 hundreds and a 100-plus mean successful six erstwhile innings. Another item of a uncommon bowling spectacle connected an opening time Down Under.