Stats: India's biggest win in Australia, Australia's first Optus defeat
It was a miserable Test for Australia’s top order, meanwhile, and a glorious one for Jasprit Bumrah
Sampath Bandarupalli25-Nov-20244-1 Australia suffered defeat for the first time in Test matches at the Perth Stadium, having won 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 win margin in Perth is the second-biggest by runs in Tests for any team to have been bowled out for 150 or less in their first innings. The biggest such win was by 343 runs for 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-biggest in terms of runs at home in the last 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 by runs against India in Tests, behind the 320-run loss in the 2008 Mohali Test.ESPNcricinfo Ltd2 Bigger Test wins away from home for India than their 295-run win in Perth. India won by 318 runs against West Indies in Antigua in 2019 and by 304 runs against Sri Lanka in the 2017 Galle Test.342 Runs aggregated by Australia in the Perth Test, their second-fewest in a home Test since 2000 when they have been bowled out twice. Their lowest was 246 runs against South Africa in the 2016 Hobart Test.Australia’s 342-run aggregate was also their fourth-lowest in a Test match against India and their lowest against them at home.Australia’s top five aggregated just 57 runs across their two innings in Perth•Getty Images9.00 Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling average in the Perth Test, where he finished with match figures of 8 for 72. Only two India 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 Runs aggregated by Australia’s top five in Perth, the third lowest for them in a men’s Test and their lowest since 1888.2.32 The ratio between the Test caps of Australia and India’s playing XIs coming into Perth, the fourth-highest ratio between the Test caps of the opposition and India’s playing XI when they have won.
Their highest ratio was 2.83 when they defeated Australia in the 2001 Chennai Test and 2.51 when they beat England earlier this year in Vishakhapatnam. The ratio between Test caps of Australia and India in the famous 2021 Brisbane Test win was 2.35.0 Test series won by Australia at home since 1970 after losing the series opener. They have lost the first Test of a home series nine times since 1970, and have gone on to lose the series eight times.