ADELAIDE, DECEMBER 6
Mitchell Starc picked up career-best test figures of 6-48 as India was skittled out for 180 on the opening day of the second test against Australia on Friday.
In reply, Australia finished on 86-1 with Nathan McSweeney 38 not out and Marnus Labuschagne unbeaten on 20.
India, which handed Australia a 295-run defeat in the first test of the five-match series, struggled after opting to bat first in the day-night match.
Starc dismissed in-form opener Yashasvi Jaiswal lbw with the first delivery of the pink-ball test, and then returned to send back KL Rahul and Virat Kohli in the second hour of play.
Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill were back in the side after missing the first test in Perth but Gill was trapped lbw by Scott Boland for 31 to make the score 81-4.
Sharma, batting at No. 6, also went six runs later, again trapped lbw by Boland for three.
Boland was back in the Australia side in place of the injured Josh Hazlewood.
Pat Cummins took the sixth wicket to fall when he bounced out Rishabh Pant for 21.
Ravichandran Ashwin made 22 before he was yorked by Starc, who then bowled Harshit Rana for a duck to celebrate his first five-wicket test haul against India.
The No. 7 batter Nitish Reddy top-scored with 42 off 54 balls – hitting three sixes – before he was last man out, caught off Starc as the Australia paceman surpassed his previous test best of 6-50 against Sri Lanka.
Post tea, Australia dominated with the bat and lost only one wicket.
The Indian pacemen were wayward with the new ball, yet Jasprit Bumrah was able to dismiss Usman Khawaja for 13, caught at slip by Sharma.
McSweeney was dropped at slip earlier after wicketkeeper Pant got a glove to an edge. He and Labuschagne had put on 62 runs for the second wicket by the time stumps were drawn.
