India’s historic win in Perth Test, Australia’s pride shattered

AUS Vs IND: What an amazing victory the Indian team has registered in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 (BGT)… ‘Amazing’ in the sense that the way the team was reduced to 150 runs. After that, the comeback made by Team India under the leadership of ‘Captain Jasprit Bumrah’ will be memorable. India has registered a victory of 295 runs on Australian soil. Which is India’s biggest win in terms of runs. Now this victory has been recorded in the pages of history. The Indian team is now ahead 1-0 in BGT. ‘Player of the Match’ was Captain Bumrah, who took a total of 8 wickets in this match.

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In this match, Captain Bumrah won the toss and chose to bat first. Team India scored 150 runs in the first innings, it seemed that they were lagging behind in the match. But after this the Indian team restricted the Kangaroo team to 104 runs. Bumrah broke the back of the Kangaroo team by taking 5 wickets in the first innings, he was supported by debutant Harshit Rana and Mohammad Siraj. In the second innings, Indian batsmen Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul and Virat Kohli counter-attacked so much that India’s victory was assured.

The Indian team declared the second innings at a score of 487/6. In this way, Australia had a target of 534 runs, but they fell 295 runs short of the target. This is India’s biggest win in terms of runs on Australian soil. Australia’s team was restricted to 238 runs in the second innings. The special thing is that this is the first defeat of the Australian team in 5 test matches at Perth’s Optus Stadium. At the same time, the tradition of that record was also maintained in this ground, according to which it is said that whoever wins the toss and bats first in Optus, wins the match as well.

Earlier, India had defeated Australia by 222 runs in its home. In the Melbourne Test in 1977, the Australian team was all out for 164 runs in front of the target of 387 runs. India’s spin legends Bhagwat Chandrashekhar (6 wickets) and Bishan Singh Bedi (4 wickets) had bundled out the Australian team. India declared its second innings by scoring 487 runs for 6 wickets. India’s biggest Test win in Australia

1. By 295 runs, Perth Optus Stadium, 2024
   2: By 222 runs, Melbourne, 1977
   3: By 137 runs, Melbourne, 2018
   4: By 72 runs, WACA, 2008
   5: By 59 runs, Melbourne, 1981
   Australia surrendered in the second innings…
   Earlier, Australia’s team was all out for 104 runs in their first innings while the Indian team was all out for 150 runs. The Indian team has defeated Australia in its home ground on the last 2 tours. This time there is a chance for a hat-trick. A total of 5 matches are to be played in this ‘Mahaseries’. The next Test of the series will now be held in Adelaide from December 6.
   Chasing the target of 534 runs, Australia had a very bad start in the second innings. Debutant Nathan McSweeney could not even open his account and became the victim of Bumrah in the very first over of the innings. Then nightwatchman Pat Cummins (2) was sent back to the pavilion by Mohammad Siraj. The last wicket of the third day fell in the form of Marnus Labuschagne (3), who became the victim of Bumrah.

On the fourth day, when Australia started the game at 12/3, Mohammad Siraj then dismissed Usman Khawaja (4) in the second over of the day. In this way, Australia suffered the fourth blow at the score of 17 runs. After this, Steve Smith (17) and Travis Head shared a 67-run partnership for the fourth wicket. But when this pair was looking dangerous, Siraj got Smith caught out by Rishabh Pant at the score of 79. Finally, the wicket of Travis Head (89) fell, he was caught by wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant off Jasprit Bumrah. Head’s wicket fell at a score of 161/6. Shortly after this, Mitchell Marsh (47) was out. In this way, Australia suffered the seventh blow. Marsh became Nitish Reddy’s first wicket in Test cricket. At a score of 227, Mitchell Starc (12) was caught by Washington Sundar’s spin and got out. Which was the eighth blow for the Australian team. After this, Nathan Lyon also got out at 0 in the same over. Alex Carey was the last batsman to get out from the Australian team. In this way, India won. In the second innings, Bumrah, Siraj took 3-3 wickets and Washington Sundar took 2 wickets for India. Whereas Harshit Rana and Nitish Reddy got 1-1 success. Jaiswal-Kohli’s centuries in India’s second innings
In this match, all the 10 wickets in the first two innings of India and Australia were taken by fast bowlers. In the first innings, Nitish Kumar Reddy was the highest scorer for the Indian team with 41 runs. While Josh Hazlewood was the most successful bowler for Australia by taking 4 wickets.
At the same time, when Australia’s first innings were out at 104 runs, Mitchell Starc (26) was the highest scorer. Jasprit Bumrah took the highest number of 5 wickets for Australia in the first innings. From here the story of India’s victory was decided,