Virat Kohli drops a SITTER against Australia as his teammates had already started celebrating.
Instead, wickets were the meal of choice as Australia bowled India out for a measly 150 before tea at Perth Stadium.However, it was India who ended day one in the box seat thanks to the brilliance of Jasprit Bumrah on a chaotic opening day.
Having dismissed Test debutant Nathan McSweeney for 10 in the third over, Bumrah thought he'd snared a second wicket in the space of three deliveries when Marnus Labuschagne edged the ball to Kohli in the slips.But Kohli was unmoved and revealed he'd somehow dropped the ball, with replays showing it had remarkably fallen from his grasp at the last second.
Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh were the next to go as the hosts simply could not gain a foothold on a tricky and bouncy Perth wicket.
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