Team India couldn’t even complete 50 overs
The captain had decided to bat first after winning the toss.
First Test Ind vs Aus Day 1 Live (Aaj Samaj), Sports Desk: The poor phase of the Indian batsmen, which began against New Zealand at home, continued in the Perth Test as well. Team India, who came to bat first after winning the toss, could not even play the full 50 overs and were out for a total of 150 runs in 49.4 overs.
No batsman from the Indian team could cope with Australia’s fast bowlers and the team collapsed in the second session of the day. Rishabh Pant made the maximum contribution of 37 runs for the Indian team. After this, KL Rahul scored 26 runs. Apart from these two, no other batsman could hold on and the entire team was reduced to 150 runs.
Josh Hazlewood is Australia’s most successful
Josh Hazlewood was the most successful bowler among Australia’s bowlers. He dismissed four Indian players. Apart from this, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Marsh sacked two players 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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