131/3 (21.1)
CRR : 6.19
136/9 (26.0)
CRR : 5.23
Australia won by 7 wickets (DLS METHOD) 🏆
Player of the Match
Player
46(52)
Over 22
Australia 131/3
Matt Renshaw21(24)
Mitchell Marsh46(52)
Nitish Kumar Reddy0-16(2.1)
AUS won by 7 wickets (DLS METHOD)
4:40 PM IST, 7:10 PM Local Time: Australia register a comfortable 7-wicket win in the series opener against India. Mitchell Marsh played a captain's knock of 46 in 52 balls remaining unbeaten after the bowlers set up the tone of the rain-hit fixture at Perth Stadium. The host's first ever win at the venue.
Australia won the toss and elected to bowl first. India never looked to get a good start as the top 3 comprising of Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were back in the hut for 25 runs. Rain interrupted play on 4 occasions and finally the game was reduced to 26 overs per side.
KL Rahul hit 2 fours and as many sixes top scoring with 38. Axar Patel also played a good hand with 31. Nitish Kumar Reddy on ODI debut hit 2 sixes to finish unbeaten on 19 in 11 deliveries. Josh Hazlewood (2/20) was the pick of the bowlers with Mitchell Starc (1/22) also bowling a fine spell which included sending Kohli off for a duck.
Mitchell Marsh attacked since the first over but Travis Head after hitting 2 boundaries was sent back by Arshdeep Singh in the second over of the chase pushing India's hopes high. Axar Patel then sent back Matthew Short for 8 in the 8th over but Marsh played the aggressor and continued to milk the boundaries.
The Aussie skipper hit 3 sixes, couple of them over the cover region to put the young Indian bowling attack under pressure. Josh Philippe at number 4 scored 37 in 29 balls to add 55 for the 3rd wicket.
Matt Renshaw on his ODI debut remained unbeaten with 21 in 24 balls hitting a four and a six; scoring the winning run in the 22nd over. Marsh played a brilliant hand but missed out on his half century by just 4 runs.
Axar (1/19) bowled a tidy spell using his experience well with Mohammed Siraj opening the bowling with a 5-over spell of 0/21. Rest of the bowlers bowled well in patches but were expensive thanks to the onslaught brought by the in-form Marsh playing in front of his home crowd.
Stay tuned as we return with the post match presentation.
Australia won the toss and elected to bowl first. India never looked to get a good start as the top 3 comprising of Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were back in the hut for 25 runs. Rain interrupted play on 4 occasions and finally the game was reduced to 26 overs per side.
KL Rahul hit 2 fours and as many sixes top scoring with 38. Axar Patel also played a good hand with 31. Nitish Kumar Reddy on ODI debut hit 2 sixes to finish unbeaten on 19 in 11 deliveries. Josh Hazlewood (2/20) was the pick of the bowlers with Mitchell Starc (1/22) also bowling a fine spell which included sending Kohli off for a duck.
Mitchell Marsh attacked since the first over but Travis Head after hitting 2 boundaries was sent back by Arshdeep Singh in the second over of the chase pushing India's hopes high. Axar Patel then sent back Matthew Short for 8 in the 8th over but Marsh played the aggressor and continued to milk the boundaries.
The Aussie skipper hit 3 sixes, couple of them over the cover region to put the young Indian bowling attack under pressure. Josh Philippe at number 4 scored 37 in 29 balls to add 55 for the 3rd wicket.
Matt Renshaw on his ODI debut remained unbeaten with 21 in 24 balls hitting a four and a six; scoring the winning run in the 22nd over. Marsh played a brilliant hand but missed out on his half century by just 4 runs.
Axar (1/19) bowled a tidy spell using his experience well with Mohammed Siraj opening the bowling with a 5-over spell of 0/21. Rest of the bowlers bowled well in patches but were expensive thanks to the onslaught brought by the in-form Marsh playing in front of his home crowd.
Stay tuned as we return with the post match presentation.
Trivia: Shubman Gill joins an unwanted list as he becomes only the second Indian captain to lose his debut match as captain in each of the three formats. The first one was Virat Kohli.
Shubman Gill (Indian Captain): "Well, it's never easy when you lose three wickets in the powerplay itself. We were always trying to play catch-up game after that.
Well, there were a lot of learnings from this game. Plenty of positives for us as well. Defending 130 in 26 odd overs was never easy but we managed to take the game deep. So, I am satisfied with that.
We are very fortunate wherever we play to have the fans turn up in huge numbers and hopefully they will be able to cheer for us in Adelaide as well."
Well, there were a lot of learnings from this game. Plenty of positives for us as well. Defending 130 in 26 odd overs was never easy but we managed to take the game deep. So, I am satisfied with that.
We are very fortunate wherever we play to have the fans turn up in huge numbers and hopefully they will be able to cheer for us in Adelaide as well."
Mitchell Marsh (Player of the Match & Australia Captain): "The weather played its part today. Thanks to the crowd for sticking out. It was really frustrating with the weather. Always nice to win at home. Love playing in Western Australia.
As always don't get out. It was swinging around a bit. We knew that would be the case with both the teams. The young guys did well and took the game away.
[On Philippe] Awesome. Philippe came out and made it look so easy. Young guys coming in. He just wanted to have fun. We don't play in front of huge crowds all the time. He entertained us with a good knock."
As always don't get out. It was swinging around a bit. We knew that would be the case with both the teams. The young guys did well and took the game away.
[On Philippe] Awesome. Philippe came out and made it look so easy. Young guys coming in. He just wanted to have fun. We don't play in front of huge crowds all the time. He entertained us with a good knock."
India in 2025 in ODIs
Matches: 9
Won: 8
Lost: 1
Matches: 9
Won: 8
Lost: 1
Most Player of the Match Award for Australia across formats in 2025:
3 - Mitchell Marsh*
2 - Alex Carey, Tim David, Travis Head, Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis
3 - Mitchell Marsh*
2 - Alex Carey, Tim David, Travis Head, Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis
A sour defeat for India in the series opener. Both the sides have faced each other on 16 occasions since 2020 with India winning on 8 occasions and Australia taking the honours on 8 times. The series moves to Adelaide with the 2nd ODI to be played on Thursday.
That's it from our coverage of the first ODI between Australia and India from Perth. Ninaad Dixit here signing off on behalf of my co-commentator Pritam Dey, scorer Dushyant Madhukar Kumar and statistician Aman. Stay tuned for more action from around the world.
That's it from our coverage of the first ODI between Australia and India from Perth. Ninaad Dixit here signing off on behalf of my co-commentator Pritam Dey, scorer Dushyant Madhukar Kumar and statistician Aman. Stay tuned for more action from around the world.