Australia Defeated New Zealand in 1st Test in Perth, Mitchell Starc Takes 9 Wickets: Australia won by 296 runs in the first Test match played in Perth between Australia and New Zealand. The Kiwi team could not stay ahead of Mitchell Starc’s stormy bowling in the day-night test match and was dismissed in both innings. In the match being played under the World Test Championship, Australia defeated New Zealand in the one-sided match by a huge margin on the fourth day.


Batting first in the match, Australia scored 416 in the first innings with the help of Labushane’s 143 and Travis Head’s half-century. Tim Southee and Neil Wegner took four wickets each for New Zealand in the first innings.

At the same time, the Kiwi team, which came out to bat in response, could not do anything special and with the help of 80 runs of Ross Taylor, they could score 217 runs. For Australia, Starc took the highest five wickets. After that, Australia also batted in the second innings, declared the innings for 217 with the help of Rory Burns and Labushane’s half-centuries and set a target of 468 runs to win in front of New Zealand.

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But chasing the target, the New Zealand team once again could not stand ahead of the Australian bowling and all out on 171 runs. Starc and Lyon took four wickets each for Australia in the second innings. Starc, who took nine wickets in the match, was awarded the Man of the Match.