Kohli stood up for a brief period as captain as the star batter of the Indian cricket team guided skipper Rohit Sharma and set the field on Day 1 of the second Test match against Australia in Adelaide on Friday. Kohli was at his animated best as he attempted to break the first-wicket stand between Marnus Labuschagne and Nathan McSweeney. Between the 17th over of the Australia innings, Kohli had quite a long chat with Rohit and went to change the field. He also ran from his position at the slips to the bowler Mohammed Siraj to talk to him about strategy as well as fielding changes.
Meanwhile, Australia lost their opener Usman Khawaja, but took first-day honors at the day-night second Test at Adelaide Friday after a Mitchell Starc onslaught saw India crumble to 180 all out.
By close at the end of day one, hosts were 86-1 with Nathan McSweeney not out 38 from 97 balls and Marnus Labuschagne on 20 after the visitors had been dismissed on the cusp of tea after winning the toss and opting to bat.
Starc terrorized India the best.
It gave a dream start for the host by cleaning up Yashasvi Jaiswal with the very first ball of the match and ended up with 6-48–his personal best in Tests.
Bumrah had found additional movement on the pink ball at dusk to produce a thick edge from Khawaja (13), who was caught sliding to Rohit Sharma at slip, after Australia had faced 10 overs of the pink ball before dusk.
McSweeney was on 3 when dropped by keeper Rishabh Pant to take 17 balls before he got off the mark.
But he capitalized on that luck well, showing maturity in his second Test while Labuschagne survived a few nervy moments in pursuit of a substantial score following a lean streak.
