The Ashes 1st Test’s day one was nothing short of a fruitful day for the bowlers. We saw a total of 19 wickets on the first day of the 2025 Ashes 1st Test. The Perth Stadium has already seen many records broken on the first day itself. If things go this way, then surely we can see the match get over in just three days. Who was your best performer on the first day of the Ashes 1st Test?
England team captain Ben Stokes won the toss and elected to bat first. The decision did not look great as Mitchell Starc was all around the English batters. He picked up 7/58, which were his personal best bowling figures in test cricket. England just could manage to score 172 runs in the first innings as they lost all of their wickets. Harry Brook scored a fifty.
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Ashes 1st Test: Ben Stokes replies with a fifer to Mitchell Starc, dismantling England batters
The pressure was surely one the England bowlers as looking at the score they put on was very less. England’s bowlers started the innings on the front foot as Jofra Archer picked up Jake Weatherald on the second ball of the innings. They kept on putting pressure on the Australian batters.
Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith were playing smartly, but it was Jofra Archer again who took the second Australian wicket. It was then Brydon Carse who came into action and got the wicket of Steve Smith and Usman Khawaja in his back-to-back overs. Australia were 30/4. Travis Head and Cameron Green started to steady the innings and built a partnership. They put on 45 runs together.
Later, it was the Ben Stokes show. Stokes first took the wicket of Travis Head, and in his next over, he got the better of Cameron Green as well. A small partnership was being created by Mitchell Starc and Alex Carey, but it was again Ben Stokes who broke the partnership. He got Starc out. Australia were seven wickets down. In the second last over of the day, Ben Stokes again picked up two wickets as Australia ended on 123/9. Australia trail by 49 runs on stumps on day 1.
