Team India on top on the first day on the strength of Bumrah-Siraj and Rana, Australia's score is 7 wickets for 67 runs.

By News Update On Nov 22, 2024

India vs Australia 1st Test Day 1 Highlights: Australia cricket team has lost 7 wickets for 67 runs in the first innings by the end of the first day of the first Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy being played at the Optus Stadium in Perth. At the end of the first day, Alex Carey and Mitchell Starc returned to the pavilion unbeaten. Australia is still 83 runs behind in the first innings.

Australia had a bad start in the first innings. Jasprit Bumrah got the first blow in the form of debutant Nathan McSweeney (10) on a total score of 14 runs. After this, Bumrah showed the way to the pavilion on two consecutive balls to Usman Khawaja (8) and Steve Smith (0) in the same over. After this, Harshit Rana, who was debuting for India, dismissed Travis Head and Mohammed Siraj dismissed Mitchell Marsh (6) and Marnus Labuschagne (2). The last wicket of the day was taken by Bumrah in the form of Australian captain Pat Cummins.

So far, Bumrah has taken 4 wickets, Siraj has taken 2 wickets and Rana has taken 1 wicket for India.

Earlier, after winning the toss and coming to bat, the Indian team was all out for 150 runs in the first innings. The Indian team had a bad start and 6 wickets fell till the total score of 73 runs. After this, Rishabh Pant and Nitish Reddy together made a partnership of 48 runs for the seventh wicket. Reddy, playing his debut match for India, was the top scorer and scored 41 runs in 59 balls, hitting six fours and a six. Apart from this, Rishabh Pant scored 37 runs in 78 balls and KL Rahul scored 26 runs in 74 balls. 7 players of Team India could not reach double figures.

Josh Hazlewood performed brilliantly for Australia and took 4 wickets. Apart from this, captain Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Marsh took 2-2 wickets in their account.

Teams:

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.