Starc registers career-best figures of 7/58

19 wickets to fall on the day makes it the most in a day's play in an Ashes Test since 20 wickets fell on the third day of the Brisbane Test in 1950/51. There have been only two instances of as many wickets falling on the first day of an Ashes Test since the start of 20th century - 25 wickets at the MCG in 1901/02 and 20 wickets at Old Trafford in 1909.

It is also the joint-most to fall in a day's play on Australian soil in the last 50 years alongside 19 on the second day of the Brisbane Test between Australia and South Africa in 2022/23.

104 wickets by Mitchell Starc in England-Australia Tests. He is the 23rd bowler to achieve the milestone of 100 wickets and the first left-arm seamer to do so. Starc got to the milestone in 4488 balls, the second quickest among the 23, only behind Glenn McGrath's 4356 deliveries.

7/58 by Starc is his best figures in Test career across 101 matches, eclipsing 6/9 against West Indies in Kingston, his most recent outing in the format. It also happens to be the best figures by anyone at Perth Stadium bettering Mohammed Shami's 6/56 in the inaugural Test here.

7 wickets by Starc on the opening day makes him the first Australian bowler since Nathan Lyon's eight in Bengaluru in 2017 to pick seven or more wickets on the first day of a Test. The last Australian to do so in a home Test was Stuart MacGill with seven against West Indies in Syndey in 2000/01 while the last Australian seamer was Glenn McGrath, against England at the Oval in 1997.

36 balls taken by Ben Stokes complete his five-wicket haul. Amongst bowlers coming in as third change or later, it happens to be the fourth quickest behind Hardik Pandya (29 balls vs Eng, Trent Bridge, 2018), Bernard Bosanquet (32 balls vs Aus, SCG, 1904), and Michael Clarke (34 balls vs Ind, Wankhede, 2004), where ball by ball details are available.

4 instances of bowlers from the opposing sides picking up five-fers on the first day of a Test since 1950. Starc (7/58) and Ben Stokes (5/23) are the first such pair since Steven Harmison and Glenn McGrath at Lord's in 2005. The others to so in the time frame are Richard Collinge and Gary Gilmour in Auckland in 1974 and Frank Worrell and Bill Johnston in Adelaide in 1951.

197 balls - England's first innings lasted just 197 balls (32.5 overs) making it their second shortest first innings against Australia, only behind 143 balls (35.3 four-ball overs) at Syndey in 1887.

1 - This was the first instance in the history of Ashes Tests, opening partnership has recorded zero in the first innings for both teams. England lost Zak Crawley in the final ball of the first over while Australia lost Jake Weatherald off the second ball of their innings.

5 - Jake Weatherald became the fifth Australian batter to get dismissed for a duck in his debut Test innings, opening the batting. The ones to suffer the same feat previously were Ken Meuleman, Jack Moroney, Matthew Elliot and Phill Hughes.