India Win Opening Match Of Test Series In Austraila For First Time The Ever
- Virat kohli becomes first Asian captain to win Tests in England, South Africa and Australia
- Rishabh Pant made an history of matching the record of 11 catches in a test,
- With this win India took a lead of 1-0 in 4-match test series.
- India registered victory in the opening match of test series for the first time ever
Mumbai : India V/S Australia, India defeated Australia by 31 run in Adelaide test on Monday morning, registered victory in the opening match of test series for the first time ever.
India had drawn two and lost nine of there opening matches in the previous test matches in Australia. With this win India took a lead of 1-0 in 4-match test series.
India set the target of 321 runs whereas Australia able to make only 291 runs before Josh Hazlewood became the last man to fall to Ravichandran Ashwin.
With this win captain Virat kohli becomes first Asian captain to win Tests in England, South Africa and Australia.
On the other had wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant made an history of matching the record of 11 catches in a test, earlier the record was held by England’s Jack Russell and South Africa’s AB de Villiers.
It was a great success for Virat Kohli’s men, Australia was always proving hard hunting grounds. Australia needed 219 runs to win by four wickets again on the final day but lost their last two specialist batsmen before lunch, resulting in huge obstacles in India’s favor.
Marsh and Travis Head played an innings of 11 runs in the first seven overs, before that seamer Ishant Sharma struck with 115 runs and bowled the bouncer, who caught the head’s bat because he tried to stop it and Ajinkya Rahane Accidentally caught.
Paine joined Marsh and he took the preceding step from the inning to fast adhesive on some loose balls and close the gap. Australia had scored 186 runs in 6 wickets with lunch, yet 137 needed to win, in which the pan was 40 runs and Pat Cummins was five runs. But in the second over after the resumption of the top of Payne, Boomara and Pant grabbed a pull shot easily.
Cummins who survived with two big reviews in just four balls showed great applications for the eighth wicket of 41 runs, along with technology in his favor, with Mitchell Starc. And when the need for runs came down to 100, the crowd dared to dream even before falling for 28 runs in the evening before the star fell. This brought Nathan Leone to the crease and he set a quick closing before pulverizing 38 runs before Hazelwood.
For India Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Shami and Ashwim took three wickets for each.
(WithAFPInputs)
