India beat Australia by 295 runs; take 1-0 lead in Border-Gavaskar Trophy

Captain Bumrah and chap pacer Siraj instrumentality 3 wickets apiece arsenic hosts are bowled retired for 238 successful the archetypal Test astatine Perth.

India person made a stunning comeback successful Test cricket to hammer Australia by 295 runs and triumph the opening lucifer of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy successful Perth.

The visitors’ fast-bowling stand-in skipper Jasprit Bumrah and chap pacer Mohammed Siraj took 3 wickets apiece arsenic they romped location to a connection triumph and near Australia searching for answers connected Monday.

India came into the important and much-hyped five-match bid connected the backmost of a daze location bid whitewash astatine the hands of visiting New Zealand, and played the archetypal lucifer without their regular skipper Rohit Sharma.

However, Bumrah led from the beforehand with a superb show of accelerated bowling and his 8 wickets successful the lucifer earned him the subordinate of the lucifer award.

“Very blessed with the beginning, we were enactment nether unit successful the archetypal innings but the mode we responded aft that, I’m truly arrogant of the team,” said Bumrah.

“Obviously, this wicket was a small little spicy than the past 1 that I played here, but we were truly good prepared.

“So I was conscionable telling everyone to person religion successful their process and ability, due to the fact that implicit present astatine this moment, you person an accidental to bash thing special.”

Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj took 3 wickets each successful Australia’s 2nd innings [Saeed Khan/AFP]

The hosts were bowled retired for 238 aft beverage connected time four, with paceman Harshit Rana wrapping up the 4th innings by clean-bowling keeper Alex Carey for 36 to unafraid India’s 1-0 lead.

The past clip Australia won a location bid aft losing the opening trial was 55 years agone against West Indies.

“Fairly disappointing,” said Australia skipper Pat Cummins aft the match.

“It was conscionable 1 of those games wherever not overmuch went right. We didn’t truly springiness ourselves a accidental successful a fewer antithetic facets … truthful there’s a fewer antithetic areas we’ve got to cleanable up.”

After electing to bat connected a seaming archetypal day, India were each retired for 150 earlier warring backmost to disregard Australia for 104 courtesy of a Bumrah five-fer.

Dual centurions Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal lifted the tourists to 487-6 declared, mounting a immense fourth-innings people of 534 for the hosts.

Resuming time 4 connected 12-3, the hosts rapidly mislaid Usman Khawaja (four) aft the opener mistimed Siraj (3-51) to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.

Rana (1-69) bowled with fire, temporarily immobilising Steve Smith with a rib-tickler and getting Travis Head jumping arsenic the brace added 62.

Steve Smith, returning to his favoured fig 4 presumption aft an ill-fated opening experiment, fell caught-behind connected 17 to Siraj.

Head crunched boundaries aplenty connected his mode to his 89 but fell shy of an eighth trial ton erstwhile helium edged to Pant disconnected Bumrah (3-42), who picked up 8 wickets for the match.

Mitchell Marsh enactment up 47 earlier chopping debutant Nitish Kumar Reddy onto his stumps, and Dhrev Jurel showed disconnected his reflexes astatine short-leg to drawback Mitchell Starc (12) disconnected Washington Sundar (2-48) earlier tea.

Washington bowled his Australia rotation counterpart Nathan Lyon aft the interruption for a duck arsenic India marched towards a invited victory, which comes aft they were humbled 3-0 astatine location by New Zealand earlier this month.

Tailender Josh Hazlewood remained unbeaten connected four.

The triumph besides helped India ascent backmost connected apical of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) World Test Championship (WTC) table. The apical 2 teams astatine the extremity of the existent WTC rhythm volition contention successful the last successful June 2025.

India person held the Border-Gavaskar Trophy since 2016-17.

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— ICC (@ICC) November 25, 2024