Mitchell Starc offered Australia a dream begin on the Adelaide Oval on Friday, choosing up a wicket off the very first ball to dismiss Yashasvi Jaiswal. It set the tone for what would develop into his greatest outing in Check cricket, as he rattled India’s batting order to place Australia proper on prime.
Listed here are 5 key stats from the opening day’s play in Adelaide:
6/48: Mitchell Starc registered his career-best Check figures, overhauling his 6/50 towards Sri Lanka in Galle in 2016. This was additionally Starc’s first five-for towards India in Assessments.
4: Starc is the one bowler to have greater than two five-wicket hauls in Pink-Ball Assessments. He now has 72 wickets in day-night Assessments.
3: Starc turned the second bowler after former Windies pacer Pedro Collins to bag a wicket off the primary ball of a Check match on three events. All three of Starc’s victims have been left-handers – Dimuth Karunaratne in 2016, Rory Burns in 2021 and Yashasvi Jaiswal on Friday.
50: Jasprit Bumrah turned the primary bowler to file 50 Check wickets this yr. He’s solely the third Indian pacer after Kapil Dev (75 in 1983, 74 in 1979) and Zaheer Khan (51 in 2002) to attain the landmark in Assessments in a calendar yr.
13: Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli each registered their thirteenth single-digit rating this yr in worldwide cricket throughout all three codecs, falling on 3 and seven respectively.
