The story of Australia's defeat in the Perth Test has been written. Team India has done this miracle in Perth, going beyond everyone's expectations. With the victory over Australia, India also took its revenge including interest. In the Perth Test, India defeated Australia by 295 runs, which is its biggest win abroad. The first match of the 5-Test series was being played in Perth, by winning which Team India took a 1-0 lead.

India took revenge in Perth!

India had set a target of 534 runs for Australia to win the Perth Test. But as expected, he failed to climb this mountain of runs. The role of India's fast bowling was decisive in this. India's pace attack, led by captain Bumrah, defeated the Australian batsmen in both the innings. The effect of which was that India got a big victory in Perth. And his revenge was also complete.

Lost in 2018, defeated by double the margin in 2024

Now you must be wondering what is this revenge thing? Its strings are connected to the last match played at Optus Stadium in Perth. The last match between India and Australia at Optus Stadium was played in the year 2018, which was the first Test played on this ground. Australia had defeated India in that test match by a huge margin of 146 runs.

After 6 years, India and Australia were face to face again at the same Optus Stadium in Perth. This time India defeated Australia by almost double the margin of its defeat in the first encounter and settled the score with Sood.

Perth test game account

India's first innings, which came to bat first in the Perth Test, did not go beyond 150 runs. In reply, Bumrah also took 5 wickets and reduced Australia's first innings to 104 runs. In this way India got a lead of 46 runs in the first innings. After that, in the second innings, India scored 487 runs for 6 wickets on the basis of centuries from Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli and declared the innings. Yashasvi scored 161 runs while Virat remained unbeaten after scoring 100 runs.

136 year record broken, Australia lost

Now Australia had a target of 534 runs in the Perth Test, chasing which they lost their top 4 wickets for just 29 runs. The result was that this 136 year old record was broken. Earlier, four of Australia's top batsmen were out for 38 runs in the Test played in Manchester in the year 1888.

In the second innings, Travis Head scored the highest score of 89 runs for Australia. Apart from him, Mitchell Marsh played an inning of 47 runs. But this was not enough to climb the mountain like score which Team India had set in front of Australia.