IND vs AUS: India’s biggest win in terms of runs in Australia

New Delhi: India has defeated Australia by 295 runs in the first match of the five-match Test series. Team India had set a target of 534 runs in front of Australia at Perth’s Optus Stadium. In response, the Kangaroo team collapsed for 238 runs. Batting first after winning the toss, India scored 150 runs in the first innings. In response, Australia’s team collapsed for 104 runs in the first innings. India got a lead of 46 runs on the basis of the first innings. In the second innings, India declared at 487 for six and gained some lead of 533 runs.

It is worth noting that neither Rohit Sharma, nor Shubman Gill, nor Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin nor Mohammed Shami were in Team India. Despite this, Team India registered a historic victory. After breaking Australia’s pride at Gabba in 2021, India has now broken Australia’s pride at Optus Stadium in Perth. Before this Test, Australia had played four Tests at Optus Stadium in Perth and won all of them. They faced defeat in the fifth. Earlier matches were played at Perth’s WACA Stadium. However, matches started being played at Optus Stadium from 2018. Perth (WACA, 2008), Adelaide (2008), Gabba (2021) and now Perth (Optus)… India has won some historic matches in Australia.

The special thing is that Team India, which has less experience than Australia, has surprised the Kangaroos. It was great to keep the host intimidated on Perth’s bouncy and fast pitch. This is also India’s biggest win by the margin of runs in Australia. Before winning this match by 295 runs, India had won by 222 runs in Melbourne in 1977. At the same time, in 2018, India defeated Australia by 137 runs in Melbourne.

This comeback of the Indian team is special after a 0-3 clean sweep against New Zealand at home. Jasprit Bumrah did exceptional captaincy and led the team from the front. When in trouble, he took wickets. Bumrah took five wickets in the first innings and three wickets in the second innings. He was also adjudged the Player of the Match for this. With this, Team India has taken a 1-0 lead in the series. The second Test will be played in Adelaide from December 6. This was Bumrah’s second Test as captain. Earlier in 2022, he lost the Test against England. This is his first Test win as captain.

The Australian team, chasing a target of 534 runs, lost three wickets for 12 runs on Sunday itself. Nathan McSweeney was dismissed without opening the account, while captain Pat Cummins was dismissed for two runs and Marnus Labuschagne for three runs. On Monday, Usman Khawaja was out after scoring four runs. Australia lost four wickets at 17. After this, Steve Smith shared a 62-run partnership with Travis Head. Siraj broke this partnership. He got Smith caught by Pant. Smith could score only 17 runs. Then Head shared an 82-run partnership with Mitchell Marsh for the sixth wicket. Head missed the century and became the victim of Bumrah after scoring 89 runs. Head hit eight fours in his innings. Marsh also missed the half-century and could score 47 runs. Mitchell Starc was out after scoring 12 runs and Alex Carey 36 runs. Nathan Lyon could not open the account. Bumrah and Siraj took three wickets each, while Washington Sundar got two wickets. At the same time, Harshit Rana and Nitish Reddy got one wicket each.

India declared the innings after scoring 487 runs for six wickets in their second innings. Everyone was waiting for Virat Kohli’s century. As soon as he scored a century on Sunday, the Indian dressing room decided to declare the second innings. Virat played an unbeaten innings of 100 runs in 143 balls. He hit eight fours and two sixes in his innings. Virat completed his century with a four off Lyon’s ball. This was his 30th century of his Test career and 81st century overall in all three formats. This was his seventh century in Australia. He became the Indian batsman to score the most Test centuries on Australian soil, leaving behind Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin had scored six centuries. Apart from Virat, Nitish Reddy remained unbeaten after scoring 38 runs in 27 balls with the help of three fours and two sixes. Nitish and Virat shared an unbeaten partnership of 77 runs in 54 balls for the seventh wicket.

Before Virat, Yashasvi Jaiswal had scored a century and played an innings of 161 runs. He hit 15 fours and three sixes in his innings. This was the fourth century of his Test career. At the same time, KL Rahul scored 77 runs with the help of five fours. Devdutt Padikkal scored 25 runs and Washington Sundar scored 29 runs. Rishabh Pant and Dhruv Jurel could not do anything special and scored 1-1 runs. Nathan Lyon took two wickets for Australia, while Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Marsh got one wicket each.

Australia’s first innings was reduced to 104 runs. Australia had a bad start. Bumrah got Nathan McSweeney out LBW. He could score 10 runs. After this, Bumrah got Usman Khawaja caught by Kohli, then on the very next ball, Steve Smith was out LBW. Khawaja could not open the account for eight runs and Smith. Travis Head was clean bowled by debutant fast bowler Harshit Rana. He could score 11 runs. At the same time, Mitchell Marsh became the victim of Mohammad Siraj after scoring six runs. Siraj then got Labuschagne LBW. He could score only two runs in 52 balls. Australian captain Pat Cummins was dismissed by Indian captain Bumrah.