Australia vs India: Bumrah stars as Kohli and co toil – first Test Day One

India are skittled for 150 earlier reducing Australia to 67-7 successful Perth connected the opening time of Border-Gavaskar Test series.

India came retired connected apical of the opening time of the Border-Gavaskar bid against Australia arsenic 17 wickets fell successful Perth wherever stand-in skipper Jasprit Bumrah claimed 4-17 for the tourists – their prima sanction Virat Kohli, however, was near wanting again.

It was the archetypal clip successful 73 years that 17 wickets fell connected the opening time of a Test successful Australia, but each the recognition was handed to the bowlers connected a pacey yet just surface, which offered plaything and seam question with the caller ball.

The tourists won the flip nether glorious skies astatine the Optus Stadium, but were each retired for 150 astatine Tea – acknowledgment successful ample to a 48-run seventh-wicket concern betwixt Rishabh Pant (37) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (41). Josh Hazlewood (4-29) was the main designer of the Indian demise starring the feared Australian seam attack.

Jasprit Bumrah, lasting successful arsenic skipper for Rohit Sharma who remained successful India for the commencement of his 2nd child, was not to beryllium upstaged, however, and single-handedly reduced the hosts to 19-3 wrong his opening 4 overs.

“He’s a fantastic bowler and his skills were connected amusement contiguous – swing, seam, gait and his captaincy arsenic well,” Australia seamer Mitchell Starc (2-14) told ABC Grandstand vigor successful Australia of the Indian skipper.

“We were beauteous blessed aft 2 sessions, we got the shot successful the close areas but India person travel retired and followed suit and bowled beauteous good – it was a bully time to beryllium a bowler.”

Rishabh Pant of India hits 1 of 3 sixes scored connected the archetypal time [Robert Cianflone/Getty Images]

Kohli couldn’t halt his oregon India’s slide

The wide headlines earlier the bid were focused connected Virat Kohli, who has registered lone 2 Test centuries successful the past 5 years. The 36-year-old was exposed aboriginal to the caller shot with Yashasvi Jaiswal and Devdutt Padikkal – successful for the injured Shubman Gill – some removed for ducks by Mitchell Starc (2-14) and Hazelwood respectively.

Kohli didn’t past overmuch longer arsenic helium fended disconnected a lifting transportation from Hazlewood, which Usman Khawaja claimed astatine slip, and by luncheon the tourists were 51-4 with some Starc and Hazlewood returning 2-10 disconnected their 8 overs apiece.

There was besides large speculation heading into the lucifer arsenic to however the Indian onslaught would beryllium formed astir Bumrah, and Siraj and Harshit Rana some afloat justified their enactment erstwhile their clip came successful the evening session.

The magnitude of the Indian seamers was noticeably fuller than their Australian counterparts but contained conscionable arsenic overmuch venom with the hosts’ batters forced into evasive enactment connected a fig of occasions.

India’s Mohammed Siraj, left, celebrates the wicket of Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne [Robert Cianflone/Getty Images]

‘Plenty to enactment on’ for Australia

Marnus Labuschagne toiled for much than an hr and a fractional for 2 disconnected 52 balls earlier helium was the sixth Australian wicket to autumn successful the evening league arsenic helium was trapped successful beforehand to manus Siraj his 2nd wicket.

Wicketkeeper-batter Alex Carey was the lone subordinate to endanger the twenties successful the innings, with conscionable Nathan McSweeney (10) and Travis Head (11) reaching treble figures otherwise, and remains unbeaten connected 19 overnight with Starc joining him for the last 2.4 overs of the day.

“It’s a hard shot wicket and there’s plentifulness of question and a spot of swing,” Starc added. “If you tin get done that play and get to a softer ball, it volition go a small easier. There are surely cracks retired determination and our occupation is to get past them if we tin and past bash harm with the ball.

“It’s lone Day One, thing tin hap successful the morning. There’s a 2nd innings successful manus but plentifulness to enactment on.”