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Why Day One in Perth is one of the greatest opening duels in the BGT history | Cricket News

Why Day One in Perth is one of the greatest opening duels in the BGT history | Cricket News

Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT): Buckle your seatbelts and get ready for a summer of bowlers. On an utterly stunning opening day at Perth, the batsmen from both teams wobbled along at a below-par standard to make the Test match, and the series, rather interesting. When India were shot out for 150, it seemed like a nasty rewind to the summers of 90’s. Instead, jaws dropped at the Optus Stadium in admiration and respect at the startling fightback, led by the captain Jasprit Bumrah and the newcomer Harshit Rana, ably supported by Mohammad Siraj to leave Australia reeling at 67 for 7 at stumps. It’s 2024, but the fightback had the feel of the 2021 series during the pandemic. Bumrah’s quality is known, but Siraj has been off-colour in recent months and Rana was an unknown commodity. To do this if India had bowled first or had a huge score behind them would have been one thing but for them to crack open the series like this, after being almost shoved out of the game by …