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In the IND vs AUS 1 test on Day 1, Captain Jasprit Bumrah helps India come back after a low score. India had replied to their first innings score of 150, and now the Australians are in danger after losing seven wickets for 67 runs. Australia 67/7 (Carey-19*, Bumrah 4-17, Siraj 2-17), 83 runs behind India 150 (Reddy 41, Pant 37, Hazelwood 4-29)
Bowler’s dominance on day 1 of the IND vs AUS Test
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17 wickets tumbled on the first day of the Perth Test. When the Indian team, which won the toss and came out to bat first, was all out for a paltry 150, it seemed like the Indian team might not recover from that 0-3 defeat at the hands of New Zealand. But the Indian captain Jasprit Bumrah, who was just playing his second Test, had other plans.
He pushed Australia on the backfoot by taking 4 wickets one after the other and Australia is struggling after losing 7 wickets for 67 runs on the first day. They are still 83 runs behind India’s score and have only three wickets left. Mohammad Siraj and Harshit Rana also supported their captain well and took two and one wickets respectively.
India won the toss and elected to bat first, which at some point within 50 runs proved to be a wrong decision after India lost four wickets. There was Yashasvi Jaiswal and Devdutt Padikkal out for zero, as well as Virat Kohli was run out by Hazelwood at slip for a score of five runs. KL Rahul, however, who was given a long-time series opener, struggled a lot and scored 26 runs in 74 balls with the help of three fours.
At the same time, Rishabh Pant, who came out as India’s crisis solver and match-winner from the last two Australia tours, was acting as a crisis solver once again scoring 37 runs in 78 balls with three fours and a superb six while scooping Cummins. Pant put together a 48-run stand with debutant Nitish Kumar Reddy (41). However, when he was playing along, he played to be caught off a beautiful delivery from Cummins at slip.
Reddy thereafter showed some speed and was the last man to fall in terms of batsmen as India got to 150. Reddy hit six fours and a six in his innings while scoring at a strike rate of 70.
