Captain Bumrah and fellow pacer Siraj take 3 wickets apiece as hosts are bowled out for 238 within the first Check at Perth.
India have made a surprising comeback in Check cricket to hammer Australia by 295 runs and win the opening match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Perth.
The guests’ fast-bowling stand-in captain Jasprit Bumrah and fellow pacer Mohammed Siraj took three wickets apiece as they romped house to a press release win and left Australia looking for solutions on Monday.
India got here into the essential and much-hyped five-match sequence on the again of a shock house sequence whitewash by the hands of visiting New Zealand, and performed the primary match with out their common captain Rohit Sharma.
Nonetheless, Bumrah led from the entrance with an outstanding show of quick bowling and his eight wickets within the match earned him the participant of the match award.
“Very proud of the start, we had been put below strain within the first innings however the way in which we responded after that, I’m actually happy with the crew,” mentioned Bumrah.
“Clearly, this wicket was rather less spicy than the final one which I performed right here, however we had been very well ready.
“So I used to be simply telling everybody to think about their course of and skill, as a result of over right here at this second, you’ve gotten a chance to do one thing particular.”
The hosts had been bowled out for 238 after tea on day 4, with paceman Harshit Rana wrapping up the fourth innings by clean-bowling keeper Alex Carey for 36 to safe India’s 1-0 lead.
The final time Australia gained a house sequence after shedding the opening check was 55 years in the past in opposition to West Indies.
“Pretty disappointing,” mentioned Australia captain Pat Cummins after the match.
“It was simply a type of video games the place not a lot went proper. We didn’t actually give ourselves an opportunity in just a few completely different aspects … so there’s just a few completely different areas we’ve obtained to scrub up.”
After electing to bat on a seaming first day, India had been all out for 150 earlier than combating again to dismiss Australia for 104 courtesy of a Bumrah five-fer.
Twin centurions Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal lifted the vacationers to 487-6 declared, setting an enormous fourth-innings goal of 534 for the hosts.
Resuming day 4 on 12-3, the hosts shortly misplaced Usman Khawaja (4) after the opener mistimed Siraj (3-51) to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.
Rana (1-69) bowled with hearth, quickly immobilising Steve Smith with a rib-tickler and getting Travis Head leaping because the pair added 62.
Steve Smith, returning to his favoured quantity 4 place after an ill-fated opening experiment, fell caught-behind on 17 to Siraj.
Head crunched boundaries aplenty on his technique to his 89 however fell shy of an eighth check ton when he edged to Pant off Bumrah (3-42), who picked up eight wickets for the match.
Mitchell Marsh put up 47 earlier than chopping debutant Nitish Kumar Reddy onto his stumps, and Dhrev Jurel confirmed off his reflexes at short-leg to catch Mitchell Starc (12) off Washington Sundar (2-48) earlier than tea.
Washington bowled his Australia spin counterpart Nathan Lyon after the break for a duck as India marched in direction of a welcome victory, which comes after they had been humbled 3-0 at house by New Zealand earlier this month.
Tailender Josh Hazlewood remained unbeaten on 4.
The win additionally helped India climb again on high of the Worldwide Cricket Council’s (ICC) World Check Championship (WTC) desk. The highest two groups on the finish of the present WTC cycle will contest within the ultimate in June 2025.
India have held the Border-Gavaskar Trophy since 2016-17.
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— ICC (@ICC) November 25, 2024
