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.

There are many such records in Test cricket, which have not been broken for almost 100 years. One of them is a record, the biggest win in terms of runs in Test cricket. This record was set by England against Austlia 97 years ago. At that time England defeated Australia by a huge margin of 675 runs. England had set a target of 742 runs in front of Australia, but the Australian team was all out for only 66 runs.

Full account of this historic match

This was the first match of the five -match Test series between England and Australia. England were on tour in 1928, Australia. The match was played between the two teams in Brisbane. England batted first in this Test. England batsmen batted brilliantly. Patie Hendraine scored a brilliant century for England. Handraine scored 169 runs with the help of 16 fours. Apart from him, Harold Larvood scored 70 and Percy Chapman scored 50 runs, due to which England scored 521 runs in the first innings. For Australia, Jack Gregory and Clary Grimate took three wickets each.

After this, Australia came to bat. No Australian batsman could play a big innings. Jack Rider scored the most runs for Australia. Rider scored an innings of 33 runs. The Australian team was reduced to just 122 runs. Harold larvood took 6 wickets for England. England got a lead of 399 runs in the first innings.

England declared the innings by scoring 342 runs in the second innings. Phil Mid scored 73, Douglas Jardin scored 65 runs for England. Clary Grimate took 6 wickets for Australia. In this way, England set a target of 742 runs in front of Australia.

Chasing the target, the Australian team was reduced to just 66 runs. England won the match by a big margin of 675 runs. Jack White took the most wickets from England. Jack took four wickets.

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