Australia won the toss and chose to bat first in this test to provide the  54^th occasion of Australia doing so against India. It also provides the 31^st occasion of Australia doing so against India in India.

V Kohli is playing his 50^th test on home soil. He became the 13^th Indian cricketer to play 50 tests on home soil. The following table lists the performance of these 13 cricketers as at the end of the first day’s play of this test.

No	Player	Span	Mat	Runs	HS	C	W	5	Ct	St
1	SR Tendulkar	1990-2013	94	7216	217	22	16	0	47	0
2	R Dravid	1996-2011	70	5598	222	15	0	0	98	0
3	SM Gavaskar	1972-1987	65	5067	236*	16	0	0	51	0
4	N Kapil Dev	1978-1994	65	2810	163	5	219	11	40	0
5	A Kumble	1993-2008	63	1340	88	0	350	25	34	0
6	VVS Laxman	1996-2011	57	3767	281	8	1	0	61	0
7	R Ashwin	2011-2023	55	1701	124	3	331	25	19	0
8	Harbhajan Singh	1998-2013	55	1047	115	2	265	18	25	0
9	DB Vengsarkar	1977-1990	54	3725	166	13	0	0	42	0
10	V Sehwag	2001-2013	52	4656	319	13	15	1	41	0
11	CA Pujara	2010-2023	51	3797	206*	10	0	0	29	0
12	SC Ganguly	1996-2008	50	3180	239	8	11	0	41	0
13	V Kohli	2011-2023	50	3958	254*	13	0	0	50	0

Ahmedabad is hosting its 15^th test. It became the eighth test centre in India to host 15 or more tests. All such grounds are tabulated below

No	Team	Span	Mat	Ground
1	India	1934-2019	42	Eden Gardens, Kolkata
2	India	1948-2023	35	Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
3	India	1934-2021	34	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
4	India	1975-2021	26	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
5	India	1974-2022	24	M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
6	India	1952-2021	23	Green Park, Kanpur
7	India	1948-2009	18	Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
8	India	1983-2023	15	Narendra Modi Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad

UT Khawaja scored 104 not out as at the end of the first day’s play to provide the 106^th occasion of an Australian batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India. It also provides the 40th occasion of an Australian batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India in India

UT Khawaja scored 104 not out as at the end of the first day’s play to provide the 31st occasion of an Australian opening batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India. It also provides the 12th occasion of an Australian opening batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India in India

UT Khawaja scored 104 not out as at the end of the first day’s play to provide the first occasion of an Australian batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India at Ahmedabad. It also provides the first occasion of an Australian batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India in India at Ahmedabad

UT Khawaja scored 104 not out as at the end of the first day’s play to provide the first occasion of an Australian opening batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India at Ahmedabad. It also provides the 12th occasion of an Australian opening batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India in India at Ahmedabad

UT Khawaja scored 104 not out as at the end of the first day’s play to provide the twelfth occasion of a visiting batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India at Ahmedabad. It also provides the third occasion of an visiting opening batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India in India at Ahmedabad

UT Khawaja scored 104 not out as at the end of the first day’s play to provide the 217th occasion of a visiting batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India in India. It also provides the 68th occasion of an visiting opening batsman scoring a century in a test innings against India in India.

UT Khawaja scored 104 not out as at the end of the first day’s play to provide his 14th century in a test innings. It also represents his first century against India in India.

No	Runs	Pos	I	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	174	3	1	v New Zealand	Brisbane	05 Nov 2015
2	121	3	1	v New Zealand	Perth	13 Nov 2015
3	144	3	1	v West Indies	Melbourne	26 Dec 2015
4	140	3	2	v New Zealand	Wellington	12 Feb 2016
5	145	1	2	v South Africa	Adelaide	24 Nov 2016
6	171	3	2	v England	Sydney	04 Jan 2018
7	141	2	4	v Pakistan	Dub-DSC	07 Oct 2018
8	101*	3	3	v Sri Lanka	Canberra	01 Feb 2019
9	137	5	1	v England	Sydney	05 Jan 2022
10	101*	5	3	v England	Sydney	05 Jan 2022
11	160	2	1	v Pakistan	Karachi	12 Mar 2022
12	104*	1	3	v Pakistan	Lahore	21 Mar 2022
13	195*	1	1	v South Africa	Sydney	04 Jan 2023
14	104*	2	1	v India	Ahmedabad	09 Mar 2023

UT Khawaja scored 104 not out as at the end of the first day’s play to provide his sixth century in a test innings as an opening batsman. It also represents his first century against India in India. All the six centuries are tabulated below

No	Runs	Pos	I	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	145	1	2	v South Africa	Adelaide	24 Nov 2016
2	141	2	4	v Pakistan	Dub-DSC	07 Oct 2018
3	160	2	1	v Pakistan	Karachi	12 Mar 2022
4	104*	1	3	v Pakistan	Lahore	21 Mar 2022
5	195*	1	1	v South Africa	Sydney	04 Jan 2023
6	104*	2	1	v India	Ahmedabad	09 Mar 2023

UT Khawaja scored 104 not out as at the end of the first day’s play to provide his highest individual innings against India – both as a batsman and as an opening batsman. His previous best was 81 at Delhi in Feb 2023 – both as a batsman and as an opening batsman

UT Khawaja scored 104 not out as at the end of the first day’s play represent his fourth fifty against India as a batsman. All the four fifties are tabulated below.

No	Runs	Pos	I	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	104*	2	1	v India	Ahmedabad	09 Mar 2023
2	81	2	1	v India	Delhi	17 Feb 2023
3	72	3	3	v India	Perth	14 Dec 2018
4	60	2	2	v India	Indore	01 Mar 2023

UT Khawaja scored 104 not out as at the end of the first day’s play represent his third fifty against India as an opening batsman. All the three fifties are tabulated below.

No	Runs	Pos	I	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	104*	2	1	v India	Ahmedabad	09 Mar 2023
2	81	2	1	v India	Delhi	17 Feb 2023
3	60	2	2	v India	Indore	01 Mar 2023

RA Jadeja’s aggregate of wickets as an Indian left arm spinner read 264 at the end of first day’s play in this test. He needs two more wickets to equal and three more wickets to surpass Bishan Singh Bedi’s aggregate of 266 wickets which are the most wickets by an Indian left arm spin bowler.

RA Jadeja’s aggregate of wickets as a left arm spinner read 85 at the end of first day’s play in this test against Australia. He occupies the fifth position in the list of left arm spinners who have captured most wickets against Australia. The other four are – W Rhodes of England {109}, DL Underwood of England {105}, R Peel of England {101} and J Briggs of England {97}

RA Jadeja is the only non-England bowler in the list of left arm spin bowlers who have captured most wickets against Australia.

R Ashwin’s aggregate of wickets against Australia read 108 at the end of the first day’s play in this test. He needs three more wickets to equal and four more wickets to surpass A Kumble’s tally of 111 wickets which is a record for most wickets by an Indian bowler against Australia.

NM Lyon {113}, A Kumble {111} and R Ashwin {108} are the three bowlers to capture 100 plus wickets in India-Australia test series.