In the first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 between India and Australia at the Optus Stadium in Perth, no one expected the hosts Australia to suffer such a humiliating defeat. In this match, Team India playing under the captaincy of Jasprit Bumrah finished the match in just 4 days, but won by 295 runs. The excellent performance of the Indian bowlers in this match can be understood from the fact that in the first innings where the Australian team lost 4 wickets to the score of 31, in the second innings they lost their first wicket to the score of 31 runs. With the loss of just 17.4 wickets, for the first time in the 177-year history of Test cricket, Australia witnessed an embarrassing day that had never been seen before this match.
This is the first time this has happened in 177 years of Australian Test history
The biggest reason for the Australian team’s defeat in the Perth Test match was the non-contribution of its top-4 batsmen. If we talk about the team’s batting in the first innings, Usman Khawaja, McSweeney, Lebuschand and Smith managed to combine for just 18 runs. After this, in the second innings, the Kangaroos’ top-4 batsmen, Khawaja, McSweeney, Lebuschand and Cummins, combined for just 9 runs. Thus, for the first time in the history of Australian Test cricket, the team’s top-4 batsmen managed to score only 29 runs in both innings together.
India’s second biggest win at home by a run margin
Team India not only won the Perth Test match in 4 days but also proved wrong all the cricket pundits who were predicting the defeat of the Indian team before this match. The Indian team not only won this match by 295 runs but this is their second biggest win by a margin of runs at home. Team India won the Test match against West Indies by 318 runs in the year 2019, after which this Test win in Perth has come to the second place in the list.
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