The Perth Stadium hosted its first-ever Test in 2018, between India and Australia. It turned out to be a brilliant game where Virat Kohli scored one of his best overseas Test centuries, 123 (257), and Mohammed Shami took a six-fer but India still lost by a massive margin of 146 runs.

Indian great Ravi Shastri says Virat Kohli’s stunning record in Australia could be key to proving his critics wrong when the Border-Gavaskar series begins next week as Ricky Ponting conceded his comments about the Indian maestro’s poor recent Test form could “add something” to the showdown.