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 nan opening time of Border-Gavaskar Test series.

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

It was nan first clip successful 73 years that 17 wickets fell connected nan opening time of a Test successful Australia, but each nan in installments was handed to nan bowlers connected a pacey yet adjacent surface, which offered plaything and seam activity pinch nan caller ball.

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

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

“He’s a awesome bowler and his skills were connected show coming – swing, seam, gait and his captaincy arsenic well,” Australia seamer Mitchell Starc (2-14) told ABC Grandstand power successful Australia of nan Indian skipper.

“We were beautiful happy aft 2 sessions, we sewage nan shot successful nan correct areas but India person travel retired and followed suit and bowled beautiful good – it was a bully time to beryllium a bowler.”

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

Kohli couldn’t extremity his aliases India’s slide

The clear headlines earlier nan bid were focused connected Virat Kohli, who has registered only 2 Test hundreds of years successful nan past 5 years. The 36-year-old was exposed early to nan caller shot pinch Yashasvi Jaiswal and Devdutt Padikkal – successful for nan injured Shubman Gill – some removed for ducks by Mitchell Starc (2-14) and Hazelwood respectively.

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

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

The magnitude of nan Indian seamers was noticeably fuller than their Australian counterparts but contained conscionable arsenic overmuch venom pinch nan hosts’ batters forced into evasive action connected a number of occasions.

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

‘Plenty to activity on’ for Australia

Marnus Labuschagne toiled for much than an hr and a half for 2 disconnected 52 balls earlier he was nan sixth Australian wicket to autumn successful nan evening convention arsenic he was trapped successful beforehand to manus Siraj his 2nd wicket.

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

“It’s a difficult shot wicket and there’s plentifulness of activity and a spot of swing,” Starc added. “If you tin get done that play and get to a softer ball, it will go a small easier. There are surely cracks retired location and our occupation is to get past them if we tin and past do harm pinch nan ball.

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