The day before, Australia's defeat was confirmed. But there can be disagreement about when it happened. It was confirmed only after getting the target of 534 runs, which in modern cricket, no one has been able to score even close to that in the fourth innings. Or you can say that it was confirmed after losing 3 wickets for 12 runs.
Whatever it was today was just a formality. India has done that too. They have all out the Aussies for 238 runs. And with that, a huge victory of 295 runs has come into their hands.
Despite losing three wickets, Australia has been attacking every day today. The start was not good, however. Usman Khawaja, the unbeaten batsman of the previous day, went to pull off Mohammad Siraj's ball. At that time, the second over of the day was being played. He failed in that, and was caught by Rishav Pant. Khawaja's innings ended for 4 runs.
Then Travid Head came to the wicket. Smith's partnership with him was really solid. The two added 62 runs to the team's scoreboard for the fifth wicket. However, their partnership was also broken by Mohammad Siraj. Smith caught Rishav Pant behind the wicket with his delivery.
However, Head was in the mood to counter-attack from the beginning. Until the lunch break, he played most of the balls for Australia, and also scored most of their runs in this session. He hit 7 fours in 72 balls, scoring 63 runs.
They started the second session better. Head and Marsh together took 50 runs in 8 overs. After that, Jasprit Bumrah came back and returned Head. When he returned for 89 runs, Australia's sixth wicket partnership of 82 runs was broken.
After his departure, Mitchell Marsh and Mitchell Starc fought together for quite some time. However, both of them departed before the tea break. India finished their work by taking the remaining two wickets in the last session of the day. Border-Gavaskar Trophy: India take 1-0 lead in the series with a win in the first match.
Brief scores:
India 150 and 487/6 (Jaiswal 161, Kohli 100*; Lyon 2/96).
Australia 104 and 238 (Head 89, Marsh 47; Bumrah 3/42, Siraj 3/51, Sundar 2/48)
Result: India won by 295 runs.