DA Warner’s 164 against Pakistan at Perth in the just concluded test represent his 20^th century on home soil while opening the innings. He became the second opening batsman in the annals of test cricket to score 20 plus centuries on home soil. ML Hayden is the other opening batsman to score 20 plus centuries on homs soil. He has scored 21 centuries on home soil. This is a record for Australian opening batsmen also. Incidentally. both ML Hayden and DA Warner are left handed opening batsmen. The centuries scored by these two batsmen are tabulated below

No	Player	Runs	Pos	I	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	ML Hayden	125	2	2	v West Indies	Adelaide	25 Jan 1997
2	ML Hayden	136	2	1	v New Zealand	Brisbane	08 Nov 2001
3	ML Hayden	131	2	3	v South Africa	Adelaide	14 Dec 2001
4	ML Hayden	138	2	2	v South Africa	Melbourne	26 Dec 2001
5	ML Hayden	105	2	1	v South Africa	Sydney	02 Jan 2002
6	ML Hayden	197	2	1	v England	Brisbane	07 Nov 2002
7	ML Hayden	103	2	3	v England	Brisbane	07 Nov 2002
8	ML Hayden	102	2	1	v England	Melbourne	26 Dec 2002
9	ML Hayden	380	2	1	v Zimbabwe	Perth	09 Oct 2003
10	ML Hayden	101*	2	4	v Zimbabwe	Sydney	17 Oct 2003
11	ML Hayden	136	2	2	v India	Melbourne	26 Dec 2003
12	ML Hayden	117	2	1	v Sri Lanka	Cairns	09 Jul 2004
13	ML Hayden	132	2	3	v Sri Lanka	Cairns	09 Jul 2004
14	ML Hayden	111	2	1	v ICC World XI	Sydney	14 Oct 2005
15	ML Hayden	118	2	3	v West Indies	Brisbane	03 Nov 2005
16	ML Hayden	110	1	2	v West Indies	Hobart	17 Nov 2005
17	ML Hayden	137	1	3	v South Africa	Melbourne	26 Dec 2005
18	ML Hayden	153	2	2	v England	Melbourne	26 Dec 2006
19	ML Hayden	124	2	1	v India	Melbourne	26 Dec 2007
20	ML Hayden	123	2	3	v India	Sydney	02 Jan 2008
21	ML Hayden	103	2	2	v India	Adelaide	24 Jan 2008
No	Player	Runs	Pos	I	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	DA Warner	123*	2	4	v New Zealand	Hobart	09 Dec 2011
2	DA Warner	180	2	2	v India	Perth	13 Jan 2012
3	DA Warner	119	1	1	v South Africa	Adelaide	22 Nov 2012
4	DA Warner	124	2	3	v England	Brisbane	21 Nov 2013
5	DA Warner	112	2	3	v England	Perth	13 Dec 2013
6	DA Warner	145	2	1	v India	Adelaide	09 Dec 2014
7	DA Warner	102	2	3	v India	Adelaide	09 Dec 2014
8	DA Warner	101	2	1	v India	Sydney	06 Jan 2015
9	DA Warner	163	2	1	v New Zealand	Brisbane	05 Nov 2015
10	DA Warner	116	2	3	v New Zealand	Brisbane	05 Nov 2015
11	DA Warner	253	2	1	v New Zealand	Perth	13 Nov 2015
12	DA Warner	122*	1	2	v West Indies	Sydney	03 Jan 2016
13	DA Warner	144	2	2	v Pakistan	Melbourne	26 Dec 2016
14	DA Warner	113	2	1	v Pakistan	Sydney	03 Jan 2017
15	DA Warner	103	2	1	v England	Melbourne	26 Dec 2017
16	DA Warner	154	1	2	v Pakistan	Brisbane	21 Nov 2019
17	DA Warner	335*	1	1	v Pakistan	Adelaide	29 Nov 2019
18	DA Warner	111*	1	3	v New Zealand	Sydney	03 Jan 2020
19	DA Warner	200	1	2	v South Africa	Melbourne	26 Dec 2022
20	DA Warner	164	1	1	v Pakistan	Perth	14 Dec 2023

At the end of the Perth test against Pakistan, DA Warner owns the Australian record for most runs by an opening batsman on home soil. His aggregate read 5292. He went past ML Hayden’s 5210 during his knock of 164 in the first innings.

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0
DA Warner	2011-2023	56	96	7	5292	335*	59.46	20	14	6
ML Hayden	1996-2009	56	98	8	5210	380	57.88	21	16	5

DA Warner’s second innings zero was his sixth zero while opening the innings on home soil. He now owns the record for most zeroes by an Australian opening batsman on home soil. The other three opening Australian opening batsmen who have scored five zeroes on home soil are – ML Hayden, DC Boon and GM Wood