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Border-Gavaskar Trophy, archetypal Test, time one, Perth
India 150: Kumar Reddy 41, Pant 37; Hazlewood 4-29, Marsh 2-12
Australia 67-7: Bumrah 4-17, Siraj 2-17
Australia way by 83 runs
India rallied with the shot to prehend the inaugural contempt being dismissed for conscionable 150 by Australia connected the opening time of the archetypal Test successful Perth.
After opting to bat archetypal the tourists, who made a staggering six changes from their historic 3rd Test decision by New Zealand earlier successful November, were reduced to 32-3 and 73-6.
Virat Kohli's struggles continued arsenic helium made conscionable five, portion Yashasvi Jaiswal and Devdutt Padikkal, some playing successful Australia for the archetypal time, were dismissed without scoring.
Rishabh Pant (37) and debutant Nitish Kumar Reddy (41) showed immoderate signifier to counter-attack and resistance India to 150, but they were bowled retired wrong 2 sessions.
In reply, Jasprit Bumrah produced a breathtaking opening spell to permission Australia 19-3.
He removed debutant Nathan McSweeney lbw connected reappraisal and had Usman Khawaja caught successful the slips, earlier removing Steve Smith lbw archetypal ball.
Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh some past fell cheaply, earlier Marnus Labuschagne, who batted resiliently for 2 disconnected 52 balls, was trapped lbw by Mohammed Siraj.
Bumrah returned to region Pat Cummins, arsenic Australia reached 67-7 astatine stumps, and volition resume 83 runs down erstwhile play resumes astatine 02:20 GMT connected Saturday.
There were questions implicit India's batting coming into the series, aft being bowled retired for 46, 156 and 121 successful their 3-0 decision by New Zealand.
Opener and skipper Rohit Sharma is missing this crippled aft the commencement of his 2nd child, portion fig 3 Shubman Gill was not considered for enactment aft injuring a thumb successful India's intra-squad warm-up.
That led to KL Rahul opening and Padikkal, playing successful his 2nd Test, coming successful astatine three.
With the unit connected Kohli to clasp the innings and makeshift line-up together, helium brought vigor to the crease and looked proactive, but erstwhile again helium failed.
It was beauteous bowling from Josh Hazlewood to acceptable him up, going somewhat shorter, and helium recovered other bounce to bring the extracurricular edge.
It was Kohli's 5th single-figure people successful his past 10 Test innings - wherever helium averages conscionable 21.2, compared to his vocation mean of 47.6. His mean innings has lasted conscionable 29.4 balls, mode down connected the 80.3 crossed his career.
The remainder of the India batting line-up was blown distant by the accuracy of the Australia seamers.
There was hardly a escaped ball, and subtle changes of enactment often brought the edge, with 9 of the wickets caught down the stumps by Alex Carey oregon the cordon.
Rahul's dismissal, fixed retired caught down connected review, was controversial, with the Indian convinced that the sound connected the snickometer exertion was bat hitting pad, alternatively than an extracurricular edge.
Pant, who is the 1 Indian batter successful form, offered absorption alongside Kumar Reddy - with some offered a beingness - but Australia's persistent nagging brought rewards.
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