India did what no one else could do- defeated Australia by 295 runs in Perth Test

IND vs AUS: India defeated Australia by 295 runs in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The team has taken a 1-0 lead in the 5-match Test series. The second match will be played in Adelaide from December 6. On Monday, on the fourth day of the match at Optus Stadium in Perth, the Kangaroo team, chasing 534 runs, was all out for 238 runs in the second innings. Earlier, India declared the second innings at 487 for 6 wickets. Team India scored 150 runs in the first innings. In response, Australia's first innings was reduced to 104 runs.

This is Australia's first defeat at Optus Stadium in Perth. The team had played 4 matches before this and won all.

Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj took 3-3 wickets in Australia's second innings. Travis Head (89) scored a half-century.

India took revenge in Perth!

India had set a target of 534 runs for Australia to win the Perth Test. But as expected, they failed to climb this mountain of runs. India's fast bowling played a decisive role in this. India's pace attack, led by captain Bumrah, troubled the Australian batsmen in both innings. The result of which was that India not only got a big win in Perth. At the same time, its revenge was also completed.

Lost in 2018, won by double the margin in 2024

Now you must be wondering what is this revenge? Its strings are connected to the last match played at Optus Stadium in Perth. The last match between India and Australia at Optus Stadium was played in the year 2018, which was the first Test played on this ground. Australia defeated India by a big margin of 146 runs in that Test match.

After 6 years, India and Australia were face to face again at the same Optus Stadium in Perth. This time India defeated Australia by almost double the margin of defeat in the first encounter and settled the score with interest.

Account of the game in Perth Test

India came to bat first in the Perth Test and their first innings did not go beyond 150 runs. In response, Bumrah also took 5 wickets and Australia's first innings collapsed to 104 runs. In this way, India got a lead of 46 runs in the first innings. After that, in the second innings, India scored 487 runs for 6 wickets on the basis of centuries by Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli and declared the innings. Yashasvi scored 161 runs while Virat remained unbeaten after scoring 100 runs.

136 years old record broken, Australia lost

Now Australia had a target of 534 runs in the Perth Test, while chasing which they lost their top 4 wickets for just 29 runs. The result was that this broke the 136 years old record. Before this, the top 4 Australian batsmen were out for 38 runs in the Test match played in Manchester in 1888.

In the second innings, Travis Head scored the highest 89 runs for Australia. Apart from him, Mitchell Marsh scored 47 runs. But this was not enough to climb the mountainous score that Team India had set in front of Australia.