India vs Australia, 1st Test Day 1 Stats Review: Jadeja's comeback, Ravichandran Ashwin's feat and other stats

Ravindra Jadeja’s 5/47 in Nagpur assisted India to gain a massive advantage on Day 1 as Australia were bundled out for 177 runs in the first day of first Test between India and Australia.

Speaking about how the day panned out, Australia opted to bat in the spin-friendly Nagpur surface, Indian pacers sent the Australian openers packing inside three overs with the new ball. However, the duo of Steven Smith and Marnus Labuschagne added 82 runs for the third wicket as they technically passed the spin dominance in the first session.

Ravindra Jadeja, the chief architect, broke the partnership by setting up Marnus Labuschagne. Once the partnership was broken, Australia never recovered as Jadeja picked his 11^th fifer in his comeback game for India. Jadeja was ably supported by Ravichandran Ashwin as the duo together took eight wickets between them bundling Australia cheaply for 177 inside 64 overs. 

In response to the 177, Indian batters looked solid as they withstood the spin in the final session, Skipper Rohit Sharma notched up his 15^th half-century as they reduced the deficit to 100. Todd Murphy got his maiden Test wicket as he picked up KL Rahul for just 20. 

Meanwhile let us look at stats and number from Day 1 of first Test between India and Australia.

5 - Mohammad Shami Became the fifth Indian fast bowler to pick 400 international wickets. The other four in the list are Kapil Dev, Zaheer Khan, Javagal Srinath, Ishant Sharma.

452 - Ravichandran Ashwin has completed 450 test wickets.

Fewest Matches to 450 Test Wickets:

80 -Muttiah Muralitharan

89 - Ravichandran Ashwin

93 - Anil Kumble

3 - Ravichandran Ashwin became the third player to achieve the feat of 3000 test runs and 450 Test Wickets. Other two in the list are Stuart Broad and Shane Warne.

5 – Ravindra Jadeja became the fifth Indian bowler to take 100 wickets against Australia. The other four in the list are Kapil Dev, Anil Kumble, Ravichandran Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh.

3 - Ravindra Jadeja has dismissed Steven Smith thrice by getting him bowled. 

Bowlers to dismiss Steven Smith most number of times ( Bowled )

3 - Ravindra Jadeja

2 - Stuart Broad

2 - James Anderson

2 - Bhuvneshwar Kumar

2 - Rangana Herath