KL and Yashasvi Jaiswal
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 has started with a bang in Perth. 17 wickets fell on the very first day of the first Test being played at Optus Stadium in Perth. Batting first, Team India collapsed for just 150 runs in the first innings. After this, the Indian fast bowlers, under the leadership of captain Jasprit Bumrah, performed brilliantly and bowled out Australia for 104 runs in the first session on the second day itself. In this way, Team India made a new record of all out Australia on the lowest score in the first innings of a Test match at its own home. Let us tell you, in the year 1947, Team India had done a great feat of defeating the host Australia for 107 runs in the first innings of the Test match played in Sydney. Now Team India has shattered its own big record.
Indian opening pair did wonders
After taking a lead of 46 runs by bowling out Australia for 104 runs in the first innings, Team India started the second innings in great style. Openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul started playing cautiously and till tea on the second day, they put 84 runs on the scoreboard without losing any wicket. Even after tea, the brilliant batting of Jaiswal and KL continued and both of them soon completed the partnership of 100 runs. Shortly after this, Yashasvi Jaiswal completed his half-century and thus made the record of scoring 50+ nine times in Tests this year. Jaiswal overtook Root.
Australian bowlers kept searching for the first wicket but did not get any success. During this, Jaiswal and KL Rahul together took Team India’s score to 126 runs in the second innings. With this, Team India’s opening pair broke a 76-year-old record on Australian soil. In fact, Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul’s partnership of 126 runs is the fourth highest partnership of any Indian opening pair in Australia. Earlier this record was made by the pair of Vinoo Mankad and Chandu Sarwate in the year 1948. Then both of them together made a partnership of 124 runs for the first wicket.
Indian opening pair’s biggest partnership in Australia
- 191 runs- Sunil Gavaskar and Kris Srikkanth (1986)
- 165 runs- Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan (1981)
- 141 runs- Aakash Chopra and Virender Sehwag (2003)
- 131 runs – Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul (2024)
- 124 runs- Vinoo Mankad and Chandu Sarwate (1948)*
- 123 runs- Aakash Chopra and Virender Sehwag (2004)
Highest run opening partnership for India since 2010 in SENA countries
- 137 – Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag at Centurion, 2010
- 131* – Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul in Perth in 2024
- 126 – KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma at Lord’s in 2021
- 117 – Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul at Centurion in 2021
- 97 – KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma at Nottingham in 2021
