After a 17-wicket Day 1, Australia's bowlers were made to do the hard yards without anything to show for it on Day 2 as KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal hit fifties to put India on top in the Perth Test. The openers took the first-innings lead of 46 - earned through a Jasprit Bumrah fifer - and stretched it past 200 by the end of day's play.

This is India's highest opening stand in Tests in Australia since the 2004 SCG Test, where Virender Sehwag and Aakash Chopra put on 123. Overall, the highest partnership is held by Sunil Gavaskar and Krishnamachari Srikkanth who stitched up a 191-run partnership in Sydney in 1986.

Jaiswal goes strong and brings up his fifty. KL Rahul on the other hand is still unbeaten in the 40s. The duo has now been settled in the middle of the Optus stadium. Australian bowlers are falling short to claim their first wicket on day two of the first Test.