Indian team did a historic feat in Australia.
In the first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy being played between India and Australia at the Optus Stadium in Perth, Team India has so far completely dominated the match, in which they completely backfooted Australia at their home. Have pushed on. In this Test match, even though the Indian team was limited to a score of 150 in its first innings, but after this, while they bowled out the Australian team’s first innings at a score of 104, they gave an excellent batting performance in the second innings and scored 487 runs. Score declared. With this, Team India also accomplished a historic feat which till date the Indian team had never been able to do against Australia in the history of Test cricket.
Took lead of 500 plus runs for the first time in Australia
An excellent batting performance was seen from the Indian team in the second innings of the Perth Test match in which a historic partnership of 201 runs was seen for the first wicket. While KL Rahul played an inning of 77 runs, after this Yashasvi Jaiswal managed to score the fourth century of his Test career and an excellent inning of 161 runs was seen with his bat. After this, Virat Kohli also managed to score a century in Test cricket after a long time. Kohli played an inning of 100 runs in 143 balls. On the basis of this, while Team India was successful in giving a target of 534 runs to Australia, it is the first time in the history of Test cricket that the Indian team was also successful in getting a lead of 500 plus runs against Australia at their home.
Teams taking lead of 500 plus runs against Australia in Tests
England – 741 runs (Brisbane Test, 1928)
South Africa – 631 runs (WACA Stadium, 2012)
West Indies – 573 runs (Adelaide Stadium, 1980)
South Africa – 538 runs (WACA Stadium, 2016)
India – 533 runs (Perth Optus Stadium, 2024)
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