Perth. The Border Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia has started with the first Test match in Perth. Team India, batting first under the leadership of Jasprit Bumrah, lost four wickets till lunch.
In this match, India won the toss and batted first and started losing wickets in the beginning itself. Yashasvi Jaiswal was out without opening the account on the balls of Mitchell Starc. After this Devdutt Padikkal also could not open the account. He faced 23 balls.
After this, Virat Kohli also got caught out by Khawaja on the ball of Hazlewood after scoring 5 runs in 12 balls. Before lunch, India suffered another blow in the form of KL Rahul. Rahul, who came in the opening, was caught out by Alex Carey by Mitchell Starc. Rahul played an innings of 26 runs in 74 balls.
In this way, till lunch, facing 25 overs, India had scored 52 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. Team India's struggle continues. Earlier, the Indian team had lost the series against New Zealand by 03 at home. There too the struggle of the Indian batsmen continued.
India is playing in this match without Rohit Sharma who has not been able to join the team due to personal reasons. Earlier in this match, India gave their first Test cap to Nitish Kumar Reddy and Harshit Rana.
India had managed to win the Border Gavaskar Trophy played against Australia 21 in 201819 and 202021.
The playing 11 of both the teams in Perth Test is as follows-
India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, K.L. Rahul, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Jasprit Bumrah (captain), Harshit Rana and Mohammed Siraj.
Australia: Nathan McSweeney, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitch Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood.
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