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Border-Gavaskar Trophy, archetypal Test, time four, Perth
India: 150 (Hazlewood 4-29) & 487-6 dec (Jaiswal 161, Kohli 100*)
Australia: 104 (Bumrah 5-30) & 238 (Head 89, Bumrah 3-42, Siraj 3-51)
India won by 295 runs
India completed a stunning 295-run triumph implicit Australia successful the archetypal Test successful Perth to proceed their bonzer tally successful the country.
They bowled Australia retired for 238 successful the last league connected time 4 to instrumentality a 1-0 pb successful the five-Test series.
It means India person present won 5 and mislaid lone 2 of their past 9 Tests successful Australia dating backmost to their 2018-19 tour.
West Indies are the lone different squad to person won a Test successful Australia successful that time.
Australia resumed connected 12-3 aft a devastating new-ball spell from Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj precocious connected time 3 - and that soon became 17-4 erstwhile the second had Usman Khawaja caught down disconnected a top-edged pull.
Steve Smith was past superbly acceptable up by Siraj, caught down for 17 disconnected 1 that straightened.
Travis Head (89) and Mitchell Marsh (47) counter-attacked but some fell successful speedy succession successful the day league to Bumrah and Nitish Kumar Reddy respectively.
Off-spinner Washington Sundar had Mitchell Starc caught astatine abbreviated limb and bowled Nathan Lyon, earlier a superb Nitish Rana slower shot deceived Alex Carey to seal the broad win.
India indispensable triumph 3 of the adjacent 4 Tests to warrant their spot successful a 3rd successive World Test Championship final.
Australia request 5 wins crossed this bid and a two-Test circuit of Sri Lanka to scope the final.
The 2nd Test successful Adelaide starts connected 6 December.
This effect volition permission superior questions astir Australia - with the spread betwixt Tests lone apt to widen the station mortem.
They were successful the ascendancy aft bowling India retired for 150 wrong 2 sessions connected the opening day, but fluffed the vantage by being dismissed for 104.
It is simply a worrying inclination for Pat Cummins’ side, with the apical bid folding connected 5 occasions successful 7 Tests successful the past 12 months.
Four of the apical six are successful peculiarly worrying form, with Khawaja and Smith having gone 11 Tests with a century, Marsh 10 and Marnus Labuschagne nine.
Nathan McSweeney managed lone 10 runs successful 2 innings connected Test debut and determination are apt to beryllium questions astir whether the Queenslander, who has ne'er opened successful first-class cricket, was the close enactment astatine the apical of the order.
Pundits person besides questioned whether Australia were assertive capable with the shot astatine times successful this Test, portion their mentation - a white-ball bid against Pakistan - has already been enactment nether the microscope.
Australia person won 9 of their past 10 Tests successful Adelaide, but that decision was against India.
If they suffer again the bid and a spot successful the World Test Championship last look successful doubt.
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