CHENNAI: India beat Australia by 8 wickets in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar trophy at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai to go one up in the series.
On the fifth and final day of the Test match Australia could only add a further 9 runs to their overnight score of 232 and were all out for 241 leaving India to get only 50 runs for victory.
M.Henriques remained unbeaten on a fighting 81 to go with his first innings effort of 68.
Ashwin was once again the destroyer in chief sending back 5 Australian batsmen while conceding 95 runs. He also took 7-103 in the first innings giving him a match haul of 12-198.
India scored the required 50 runs in just 11.3 overs losing both the openers in the process.
The second Test of the series will be played at Hyderabad from March 2nd.
On the fifth and final day of the Test match Australia could only add a further 9 runs to their overnight score of 232 and were all out for 241 leaving India to get only 50 runs for victory.
M.Henriques remained unbeaten on a fighting 81 to go with his first innings effort of 68.
Ashwin was once again the destroyer in chief sending back 5 Australian batsmen while conceding 95 runs. He also took 7-103 in the first innings giving him a match haul of 12-198.
India scored the required 50 runs in just 11.3 overs losing both the openers in the process.
The second Test of the series will be played at Hyderabad from March 2nd.
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