At the beginning of a summer to be defined by legends in the twilights of their career, the last thing Australia needed was the kind of batting collapse it hoped had been banished to a bygone era.
Australia collapses into a batting crisis against India in Perth as Steve Smith and Virat Kohli confront their waning powers
That was put into sharp focus on the opening day of the series, in which some uncomfortable and unspoken truths suddenly became inescapable. In the other corner is an Indian side forced into regeneration through untimely absences. The tourists named two players on debut, another in his second Test and one in his fourth.
An India opener feels dudded by DRS, Pat Cummins misses a chance to use it, and Marnus Labuschagne takes a stunning team catch. Here are the quick hits from the first day of the Border-Gavaskar Test series.From the start of play until the declaration of stumps, fast bowlers feasted on unprepared batters with ruthless efficiency. Mitchell Starc started it and Josh Hazlewood intervened, but Jasprit Bumrah stole the show.
Judging a batter's form after a golden duck is almost impossible, but this was a very Smith dismissal. For years we marvelled as he stood square on in front of his stumps, seemingly begging to be dismissed LBW, only for that obscene eye and rapid hand to coordinate for a flurry of runs all around the wicket.
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