KL and Yashasvi Jaiswal
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 has started with a bang in Perth. 17 wickets fell on the first day of the first Test which was played at the 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 of the second day. In this way, the Indian team achieved a new Australian record for the lowest score in the first innings of a Test match at their own home. Let us tell you that in the year 1947, the Indian team had performed a great feat by defeating the host Australia by 107 runs in the first innings of the test match played in Sydney. Now the Indian team has broken its own great record.
The Indian starting pair did wonders
After taking a 46-run lead by bowling out Australia for 104 runs in the first innings, Team India started the second innings in grand style. Openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul started playing cautiously and till tea on the second day they put 84 runs on the board without losing any wicket. Even after tea, Jaiswal and KL’s brilliant batting continued and both soon completed the 100-run partnership. Soon after this, Yashasvi Jaiswal completed his half-century thereby achieving the record of scoring 50+ scores nine times in this year’s Tests. Jaiswal outplayed Root.
The Australian bowlers kept looking for the first wicket but did not achieve any success. During this, Jaiswal and KL Rahul together took team India’s score to 126 runs in the second innings. With this, the opening pair of the Indian team broke a 76-year-old record on Australian soil. In fact, Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul’s 126-run partnership is the fourth-highest partnership of any Indian opening pair in Australia. Previously, 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 inaugural couple’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)
The longest running opening partnership for India since 2010 in SENA countries
- 137 – Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag in 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 in Centurion in 2021
- 97 – KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma in Nottingham in 2021
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