Rohit Sharma missed the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Perth due to the birth of his second child. In his absence, Jasprit Bumrah led India to a convincing 295-run win at the Optus Stadium.
India are in the middle of a tour of Australia and have taken an early lead of 1-0 in the five-match Test series. The team is scheduled to play a two-day pink ball warm-up game ahead of the second Test in Adelaide. Ahead of the clash, the team met Australia PM Anthony Albanese.
Yashasvi Jaiswal aced the challenges thrown at him in his first Test in Australia against the home team in Perth. After bagging a duck in the first innings, the young left-hander smashed 161 runs in the second essay and that has helped him jump in the latest ICC rankings.
India's skipper for the first Test against Australia in Perth, Jasprit Bumrah is the new No.1 bowler in the longest format of the game. In the latest ICC rankings update, Bumrah has earned the career-best ratings after picking up eight wickets at the Optus Stadium that helped India win by 295 runs.
Shubman Gill had suffered a finger injury during fielding practice during the first couple of days of training in Australia for the Indian team. Gill had his finger bandaged when he returned to India's nets in Perth before being ruled out of the series opener.
Australia lost the first Test to India at the Optus Stadium in Perth by a huge margin of 295 runs, their second-biggest loss at home in the last 40 years. The second Test is set to be a day-night affair and will be played with pink ball with Australia under immense pressure to level the series.
Team India registered a massive 295-run win in the first Test of the five-match series against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy while Bihar's Vaibhav Suryavanshi became the youngest player to get picked in the IPL auction. Here's a look at the top 10 sports stories on November 26.
India registered a first-ever win in a Test match at the Optus Stadium in Perth for a visiting team as Australia's fortress, even though the sample size is really small, was breached on Monday, November 25. Australia were bowled out for 238 chasing 534 in the fourth innings after Jaiswal special.
Sanjay Manjrekar found himself on the receiving end of another Indian cricketer this week after unintentionally offending him. It was the pacer Vinay Kumar, who came up with a strongly-worded response on X (formerly Twitter) to Manjrekar.
With India captain Rohit Sharma likely to return in the second Test in Adelaide, the team management and the head coach have a lot of thinking to do with the playing XI given KL Rahul, who opened in the skipper's absence in the first Test, looked one of the most stable batters in both innings.
Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer raked in moolah, as both marquee Indian players were splashed with cash at the IPL 2025 mega auction while Zimbabwe beat Pakistan by 80 runs on the DLS method, taking a 1-0 lead in the series. Here's a look at the top 10 sports stories on November 25.
This was Kohli's 81st century in international cricket as he brought up a three-figure score in Test cricket after 18 months and his first overall since the century in the World Cup semi-final last year against New Zealand. India declared on 487/6 setting a huge target of 534 runs for Australia.
Yashasvi Jaiswal became only the fifth Indian batter to score a century in a Test match in Perth as he stormed back to his magnificent run in the format in 2024 after recording a duck in the first innings. Here's a look at the full list-
Virat Kohli completed an important half-century in the second innings as India found themselves in a dominant position in the first Test of the five-match series against Australia in Perth. India have already taken a 400-plus lead in the second innings.
India vs Australia Live Cricket Score: India survived and prodded along to ensure that Australia didn't even get an edge after getting a 46-run lead in the first innings. The lead has reached 218 and India will aim to bat Australia out on Day 3 because the pitch seemed to have flattened out.
Yashasvi Jaiswal came back well after a failure in the first innings to smash his ninth half-century in Test cricket in just his 11th match in the format. Jaiswal like his teammate Harshit Rana had a bit of a go at Mitchell Starc on the second day of the Perth Test.
India vs Australia Day 2 Highlights: Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul bossed Day 2 of the Perth test after India bowled Australia out for 104. The two have notched up an unbeaten stand of 172 and took India to a 218-run lead at the end of the day.
India got bundled out for just 150 runs in the first innings of the opening Test against Australia with Rishabh Pant scoring 37 runs and looking the most fluent batter. With this knock, Pant created history breaking a 47-year-old record in Australia.
Indian speedsters Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj and Harshit Rana hunted in a pack to send Australia in all sorts of trouble on Day 1 of the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test in Perth. India have inflicted an unwanted record on Australia with a brilliant bowling display.
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy is off to a scintillating start as 17 wickets fell on the opening day in Perth. After opting to bat first, India were skittled for just 150 runs. However, with the ball India made a stunning comeback dismissing six Aussie batters for just 63 runs.
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