Virat Kohli walked in early after India opted to bat first within the Perth Check of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Devdutt Padikkal fell for geese and Kohli was in to stroll within the eleventh over of the innings.
Alongside KL Rahul, Kohli needed to put collectively a strong partnership revive India from the early stutter and the start was promising as he discovered the center of the bat with the defensive pushes.
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Australia threw every part at Kohli, testing the Indian veteran on the fourth and fifth stump line with Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood.
However the breakthrough got here from Hazlewood. The relentless Aussie pacer landed the ball on a cash, barely giving Kohli any room for his photographs.
Off the second ball of the seventeenth over, Hazlewood received the ball to rise steeply from size to catch Kohli unawares. The sting flew to Usman Khawaja at slip the place the catch was safely pouched. Kohli fell for 5 runs to go away India reeling at 32/3 within the first innings.
WATCH Virat Kohli fall to Josh Hazlewood within the Perth Check
Kohli was a tad unfortunate to fall within the method he did and his expressions after the dismissal proved as a lot. The India No.4 batter obtained a supply at the same size the earlier ball, the place the ball didn’t bounce as a lot and was simply negotiated.
Off the second ball of the identical over, Hazlewood received the Perth bounce he was searching for and Kohli was left in no man’s land, nicking the ball off the sting of the bat to the slip cordon.
Earlier, India gained the toss and Jasprit Bumrah, standing in for Rohit Sharma as skipper, opted to bat first. India made a couple of stunning choice calls, handing debuts to Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar Reddy, and opting to play Washington Sundar because the lone spinner over veterans Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin.
Border-Gavaskar Trophy 1st Perth Check Taking part in XIs
Australia: Nathan McSweeney, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitch Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood
India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah (c), Mohammed Siraj
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