BGT: The Indian cricket team led by a stand-in skipper started the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024 on the best possible note, securing a comfortable win against the Australians in the opening match of the series.
After being thwarted by just 150 runs in the 1st innings on the first day of the Perth Test match, the Men in Blue brought their best game forward and turned things around as they launched an all-out against the Aussies to score 104 runs and manage managed to gain a decent lead of 46 runs in the first innings.
Captain Jasprit Bumrah caused chaos as the ball registered another five-wicket haul and ended the first innings with figures of 5-30 next to his name. He received tremendous support from the duo of debutant Harshit Rana (3-48) and Mohammed Siraj (2-20) as the home team had no answer to the Indians' excellent bowling performance.
In the 2nd innings of the Perth Test match, the Jasprit Bumrah-led team showed a masterclass with the bat, with opening duo KL Rahul (77 runs in 176 balls) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (161 runs in 297 balls) convincing in a mammoth partnership of 201 Runs for the opening wicket, the highest ever opening wicket stand by an Indian batting pair in the history of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia.
22-year-old Yashasvi Jaiswal's 161-run knock helped him become only the second batter ever in the history of the sport to convert his first four Test cricket tons into 150. This strike from the southpaw was instrumental in his side winning the Perth Test match
Legendary batsman Virat Kohli also managed to score his much-awaited 30th century in the longest format of the game, surpassing the tally of legendary Australian batsman Don Bradman.
To score some quick runs, Kohli struck up a really good partnership of 77 runs in just 52 deliveries with debutant Nitish Kumar Reddy (38 runs) before the Men in Blue declared their second innings for a mammoth score of 487-6 . The Indians set a huge target of 534 runs for the Aussies, their highest score in the history of the longest format of the game against their bitter rivals.
A defeat for the Kangaroos was guaranteed as their batters were not at all comfortable in the middle against the Indian bowling unit and they eventually gave their best with a score of 238 runs and suffered a defeat by a margin of 295 runs.
Updated points table for the 2023-2025 WTC cycle
| team | Matches | won | Lost | Pulled | Points deducted | Points | PCT |
| India | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 110 | 61.11 |
| Australia | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 90 | 57.69 |
| Sri Lanka | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 55.56 |
| New Zealand | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 54.54 |
| South Africa | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 52 | 54.17 |
| England | 19 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 19 | 93 | 40.79 |
| Pakistan | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 40 | 33.33 |
| Bangladesh | 10* | 3 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 33 | 27.5 |
| West Indies | 9* | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 18.52 |
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