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India's 295-run victory marked their largest margin of triumph against Australia away from home in terms of runs, surpassing their 222-run win in Melbourne in 1977. Following a 0-3 whitewash loss to New Zealand at home earlier this month, India needed to secure at least four wins in the five-match Border-Gavaskar series to guarantee a spot in the WTC Final. They took a crucial first step with a monumental win in Perth.

Skipper Jasprit Bumrah (3/42) and Mohammed Siraj (3/54) did most of the damage on the fourth day while Washington Sundar and Nitish Reddy played the support act

Siraj bowls a couple of incisive morning spells to remove seasoned Usman Khawaja and out-of-form Steven Smith

Kohli's brilliant hundred was the perfect icing on the cake for India after opener Yashasvi Jaiswal put the visitors in the driver's seat with a brilliant 161

Jaiswal and Rahul’s partnership turned out to be the highest-ever opening stand for India in Australia, crossing the previous record of 191 runs set by Sunil Gavaskar and Kris Srikkanth at Sydney in 1986

At the break, India reached 275 for 1 in their second innings despite losing KL Rahul's (77) wicket

The website, Cricket Ception, published a column on Friday evening titled "A New Era in Leadership: Bumrah's Captaincy and Kohli's Leadership Revive Team India," falsely claiming it was written by the former captain

Save KL Rahul (26 off 74 balls), youngsters like Yashasvi Jaiswal (0) and Devdutt Padikkal (0) were left searching for answers along with Virat Kohli (5), whose indifferent run of form continued

India springs in surprise by selecting Washington as their lone spinner ahead of stalwarts like Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja

India's stand-in captain also says that the team has finalised its playing XI although he will reveal it only at the toss

I just can't see how you get yourself in that competitive mindset of consequence by playing an intra-squad game, says former England captain Michael Vaughan

When he's up, he's up, and when he's down, he sort of struggles a little bit, says the Australian pace legend

There were doubts about Rohit's participation in the first Test although head coach Gautam Gambhir was quite hopeful that the captain might just be available

The right-hand batsman is in line to open the innings if skipper Rohit Sharma does not play in the first Test of the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy series

The 25-year-old South Australian will partner Usman Khawaja at the top in the series opener in Perth and during the upcoming five-Test series

Curator Isaac McDonald says they are trying to prepare a pitch that has similar traits of the one that they readied for the first Test against Pakistan in December last year

The South Australian emerged as a strong contender for the opener's spot, earning backing from the likes of David Warner and Ricky Ponting

Even Gambhir's philosophy of playing the same way, come hell or high water, is something that those associated closely with Indian cricket have failed to fathom

"Not sure whether I will be going, fingers crossed," Rohit said after India's 25-run loss in the third Test to New Zealand

India scheduled to begin their tour of Australia with a closed-door warm-up match against the Ruturaj Gaikwad-led India A at the WACA in Perth from November 15 to 17