Pakistan embarrassed on Australian soil, got a big defeat in the first test; Nathan Lyon created history
The first match of the three-match Test series between Australia and Pakistan (AUS vs PAK 1st Test) was played in Perth, in which Australia won the match by 360 runs. Australia gave a crushing defeat to the visiting team Pakistan in the first test.
Spinner Nathan Lyon gave an amazing performance for the Kangaroo team in Perth and he created history in this match. Nathan Lyon has completed 500 wickets in his Test career.
He has become the fourth spinner in the world to do so. Let us tell you that Nathan Lyon achieved this special achievement by dismissing Faheem Ashraf LBW in the fourth innings of the Perth Test match.
Nathan Lyon created history by taking 500 test wickets
Actually, 36 year old Nathan Lyon completed his 500 Test wickets in the first Test match played against Pakistan. Nathan has become the third bowler of the Australian team and 8th in the world in terms of taking the most Test wickets. For the Kangaroo team, the most wickets were taken by leg spinner Shane Warne, who has 708 wickets in his name.
At second place is the name of fast bowler Glenn McGrath, who took 563 wickets. At the same time, the record of taking most wickets in Test cricket is in the name of Muralitharan of Sri Lanka, who has taken a total of 800 wickets in Tests. Shane Warner had taken 709 wickets.
Bowlers who have taken 500 wickets in Test cricket (innings wise) :-
- 144th innings – Muttiah Muralitharan
- 189th Wari – Anil Kumble
- 201st innings – Shane Warne
- 214th innings – Glenn McGrath
- 230th innings – Nathan Lyon
- 236th innings – Courtney Walsh
- 242nd innings – James Anderson
- 258th innings – Stuart Broad
AUS vs PAK 1st Test: Australia won the first test by a big margin
If we talk about the first Test match played in Perth, the Australian team had scored 487 runs in the first innings on the basis of David Warner’s century. In response, Pakistan team scored 271 runs in the first innings. Australia got a lead of 216 runs on the basis of first innings.
After this, the Kangaroo team declared the innings at 233 runs for five wickets in the second innings. According to this, Pakistan got the target of 450 runs to win. Chasing this, Pakistan team collapsed for 89 runs in the second innings and had to face a crushing defeat by 360 runs. In the second innings for the Kangaroo team, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood took 3 wickets each, while Nathan Lyon got 2 wickets.
