India team meets Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ahead of 2-day warmup match vs PM XI

“Big situation up for the PM’s XI astatine Manuka Oval this week against an astonishing Indian side,” the Prime Minister posted connected X aft the gathering astatine the Australian parliament. The PM’s XI led by Jack Edwards besides called connected Albanese.

In the archetypal Test, Bumrah led a feisty clump of Indian cricketers to their astir ascendant Test triumph connected Australian soil, winning by a monolithic 295 runs successful a singular turnaround that volition find a pridefulness of spot among the country’s aureate moments successful planetary cricket.

The stand-in skipper led by illustration with a match-haul of 8/72 arsenic India bowled retired the hosts, who were successful pursuit of a mammoth 534, for 238 successful 58.4 overs connected the 4th day of the opening Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy here.

The triumph propelled India backmost to the apical of the World Test Championship standings with 61.11 percent points.

India’s erstwhile biggest winning borderline successful presumption of runs was 222 during a 1977-78 bid crippled successful Melbourne erstwhile Australia played an under-strength broadside owed to wide exodus for the Kerry Packer World Series.

India are present 1-0 up successful the five-Test bid with regular skipper Rohit acceptable to instrumentality implicit during the Day/Night crippled starting December 6 successful Adelaide.