Aus vs Ind – 1st Test – Stats – India’s biggest win in Australia, Australia’s first Optus defeat

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4-1 Australia suffered defeat for the first time in Test matches at Perth Stadiumafter winning the previous four. The team batting first has won all five Tests at the venue.

150 India’s first-innings total in Perth. Only twice have India won test matches with lower first-innings totals – 104 all out against Australia in the 2004 Wankhede Test, and 145 against England in the 2021 Ahmedabad Test.

295 India’s margin of victory in Perth is second largest by running in Tests for any team that has been dismissed for 150 or less in their first innings. The biggest win of this type was by 343 runs for the West Indies, who defeated Australia in the 1991 Bridgetown Test despite a first-innings total of 149 all out.

2 The 295-run defeat in Perth is Australia’s second largest compared to races at home in the past 40 years. Their biggest defeat in this period was by 309 runs against South Africa at the WACA in 2012.

It is also their second biggest defeat on the run against India in Tests, behind the 320-run loss in the 2008 Mohali Test.

2 Bigger Test wins away from home for India than their 295-run victory in Perth. India won by 318 runs against the West Indies in Antigua in 2019 and by 304 runs against Sri Lanka in the 2017 Galle Test.

342 Runs collected by Australia in the Perth Test, their second least in a home Test since 2000, where they have been shut out twice. Their lowest was 246 runs against South Africa in the 2016 Hobart Test.

Australia’s total of 342 runs was also theirs fourth-lowest in a Test match against India and their lowest against them at home.

9:00 a.m Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling average in the Perth Test, where he finished with match figures of 8 for 72. Only two Indian bowlers have recorded a better bowling average in an away test while taking eight or more wickets.

It was the fifth instance of Bumrah taking eight or more wickets in a Test match while conceding less than 100 runs. Only R Ashwin (7) has done it more often than Bumrah among India bowlers.

57 Running overall of Australia’s top five in Perth, on third lowest for them in a men’s test and their lowest since 1888.

2.27 The ratio between Australia’s Test internationals and India’s players in Perth, the fourth-highest ratio between opposition Test internationals and India’s playing XI when they have won.

Their highest ratio was 2.83 when they defeated Australia in the Chennai Test in 2001 and 2.51 when they beat England earlier that year in Vishakhapatnam. The ratio between Australia and India’s Test matches in the famous Brisbane Test win in 2021 was 2.35.

0 Test series won by Australia at home since 1970 after losing the series opener. They have lost the first Test in a home series nine times since 1970, and have lost the series eight times.