KL Rahul of India scored 60 in the first innings and 51 not out in  the second innings in the just concluded test against Australia at Dharamsala to provide the 13^th occaision of a Indian opening batsman scoring half centuries in both innings of a test. All such occasions are listed below

No	Player	FI	SI	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	SM Gavaskar	65	67*	v West Indies	Port of Spain	06 Mar 1971
2	CPS Chauhan	58	84	v Australia	Kanpur	02 Oct 1979
3	A Jadeja	59	73	v New Zealand	Bengaluru	18 Oct 1995
4	NS Sidhu	62	64	v Australia	Chennai	06 Mar 1998
5	S Ramesh	60	96	v Pakistan	Delhi	04 Feb 1999
6	G Gambhir	56	74	v Sri Lanka	Galle	31 Jul 2008
7	V Sehwag	66	92	v Australia	Nagpur	06 Nov 2008
8	V Sehwag	55	55	v West Indies	Delhi	06 Nov 2011
9	CA Pujara	52	82*	v Australia	Delhi	22 Mar 2013
10	M Vijay	65	76	v New Zealand	Kanpur	22 Sep 2016
11	KL Rahul	90	51	v Australia	Bengaluru	04 Mar 2017
12	KL Rahul	60	51*	v Australia	Dharamsala	25 Mar 201

KL Rahul and V Sehwag are the only two  Indian batsman to  score half centuries in both innings of a test on two occasions. KL Rahul is the only Indian batsman to accomplish such a feat against Australia on two  occasions and also in  the same series.  The performance of  these two batsmen are furnished below

No	Player	FI	SI	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	KL Rahul	90	51	v Australia	Bengaluru	04 Mar 2017
2	KL Rahul	60	51*	v Australia	Dharamsala	25 Mar 2017
1	V Sehwag	66	92	v Australia	Nagpur	06 Nov 2008
2	V Sehwag	55	55	v West Indies	Delhi	06 Nov 2011

The following table  lists the six occasion of Indian opening batsmen scoring half centuries  in both innings of a test against Australia.

No	Player	FI	SI	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	CPS Chauhan	58	84	v Australia	Kanpur	02 Oct 1979
2	NS Sidhu	62	64	v Australia	Chennai	06 Mar 1998
3	V Sehwag	66	92	v Australia	Nagpur	06 Nov 2008
4	CA Pujara	52	82*	v Australia	Delhi	22 Mar 2013
5	KL Rahul	90	51	v Australia	Bengaluru	04 Mar 2017
6	KL Rahul	60	51*	v Australia	Dharamsala	25 Mar 2017