By Admin 
The first test match of the Ashes series is being played in Perth. By the end of the first day’s play, Australia had scored 123 runs, but 9 wickets had fallen. Australia is still behind by 49 runs in the first innings. In this match, England won the toss and chose to bat first and scored 172 runs. The fast bowlers dominated on the first day, all the wickets of the day were taken by the fast bowlers. Mitchell Starc alone took 7 wickets.
When England came to bat first, Mitchell Starc dismissed Jack Crawley on the last ball of the first over and the first day of the match. Crowley could not even open an account. Ben Duckett scored 20 runs, while Joe Root also could not open his account. By the score of 39, England had lost 3 wickets. Olly Pope and Harry Brook put their team in a better position by making a partnership of 55 runs.
Harry Brook scored 52 runs and Pope scored 46 runs. But after both of them were out, the England team disintegrated. At one time England had scored 160 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. At this time Harry Brook was out on the score of 51. Within the next 12 runs, the remaining five England batsmen were out. In this way, England’s first innings was limited to 172 runs.
When Australia came to bat, Joffra Archer dismissed Jack Weatherald on the score of zero on the second ball of the first over of the innings. Even Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne failed to cope with the lethal bowling of Joffra Archer and Brydon Carse. Within no time, Australia had lost 4 wickets till the score was 31. The 45-run partnership between Travis Head and Cameron Green helped Australia bounce back to a great extent. Head scored 21 runs and Green was out after scoring 24 runs.
19 wickets fell on the first day
England’s first innings was reduced to 172 runs. Mitchell Starc alone took 7 wickets for Australia. In reply, Australia had lost 9 wickets at the score of 123 by the end of the first day’s play. First Joffra Archer and Brydon Carse destroyed Australia’s top order, then Ben Stokes alone took wickets of Australia’s middle order and tail batsmen. Stokes has taken 5 wickets so far.