IND vs AUS: Team India took revenge with interest, Australia lost by 295 runs in Perth Test, 136 year old record broken
The story of Australia's defeat in the Perth Test has been written. Team India has done this amazing feat in Perth by going beyond everyone's expectations. With the victory over Australia, India has also taken its revenge with interest. In the Perth Test, India defeated Australia by 295 runs, which was its biggest victory in Australia. The first match of the 5 Test series was being played in Perth, by winning which Team India took a 1-0 lead.
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 the mountain of runs set by India. 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 but also got its revenge.
Lost in 2018, defeated by double the margin in 2024
Now you must be wondering what is this revenge talking about. It is connected to the last match played at Perth's Optus Stadium. 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 in that test match by a huge margin of 146 runs.
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 also wrote the script of its biggest Test victory in Australia. Not only this, it also became the first team to defeat Australia in Perth Stadium.
Account of play in the Perth Test
Batting first in the Perth Test, India's 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 based on centuries of Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli and declared the innings. Yashasvi scored 161 runs while Virat remained unbeaten after scoring 100 runs.
136 year old record broken, Australia lost
Now Australia had a target of 534 runs in the Perth Test, while chasing they lost their top 4 wickets for just 29 runs. The result was that a 136-year-old record was broken. Earlier, Australia's top 4 batsmen were out for 38 runs in the Test played in Manchester in 1888.
Australia collapsed for 238 runs due to the havoc created by Indian bowlers.
In the second innings, Travis Head scored the highest 89 runs for Australia. Apart from him, Mitchell Marsh played an innings of 47 runs. But this was not enough to climb the mountain-like score that Team India had set in front of Australia. Australia scored only 238 runs in the second innings in front of the havoc created by the Indian bowlers. Bumrah took 8 wickets for India. Siraj took 5 wickets while Rana took 4 wickets.