Mitchell Starc gave Australia a good start by dismissing Yashasvi Jaiswal on the first ball of the match at the Adelaide Oval on Friday. It set the tone for what would be his best performance in Test cricket as he upset India’s batting order to put Australia on top.
Here are five key stats from the opening day game in Adelaide:
6/48: Mitchell Starc registered his career-best Test figures of 6/50 against Sri Lanka in Galle in 2016. It was also Starc’s first five-wicket haul against India in Tests.
4: Starc is the only bowler to take more than two five-wicket hauls in pink-ball Tests. He has now taken 72 wickets in day-night Tests.
3: Starc became the second bowler after former Windies fast bowler Pedro Collins to take wickets on the first ball of a Test match three times. All three of Starc’s victims were left-handers – Dimuth Karunaratne in 2016, Rory Burns in 2021 and Yashasvi Jaiswal on Friday.
50: Jasprit Bumrah became the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets this year. He is only the third Indian pacer to achieve the historic feat in Tests in a calendar year after Kapil Dev (75 in 1983, 74 in 1979) and Zahir Khan (51 in 2002).
13: Both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have registered their 13th single-figure scores in international cricket across all three formats this year, falling to 3 and 7 respectively.