Captain Jasprit Bumrah won the toss and decided to bat first.
1st Test Ind vs Aus Live (Current Society), Sports Dex: Team India got off to a poor start in the first Test match played in Perth. The team lost four wickets as they reached 51 runs at lunch. So the team is in big trouble. The decision to bat first after winning the toss did not turn out to be the right one for the team and Yashasvi Jaiswal, Devikar Padikal were bowled out without opening the account. After this, Virat Kohli was out after scoring just five runs and KL Rahul was out after scoring 26 runs. For Australia, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood took two wickets each.
Australia (playing XI)
Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood.
India (playing XI)
KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dhruv Jurel, Nitish Reddy, Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah (c), Mohammed Siraj.
This series has been called Border-Gavaskar Test Series. This series is where the Indian team needs to win this series 5-0 to stay in the final of the World Test Championship. At the same time, the Australian team would also like to defeat the Indian team in this series.
The reason for this is that the Indian team defeated Australia at home in the last series and then also defeated Australia badly on their soil. Which the Australian team would definitely like to take revenge on in this series.
16 series played so far, India won 10
Team India has a slight lead in the series which started under the name Border-Gavaskar in 1996. Since 1996, both teams have played a total of 16 series under this name, of which team India won 10 while Australia won five series. Apart from this, a series is being drawn.
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This time the schedule of the series is like this.
first test It will be played in Perth from November 22 to 26.
second test It will be played in Adelaide from December 6 to 10.
third test It will be played in Brisbane from December 14 to 18.
fourth test It will be played in Melbourne from December 26 to 30.
fifth test It will be played in Sydney from January 3 to 7, 2025.
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