Josh Hazlewood grabbed four wickets as Australia's red-hot pace attack tore through the Indian batting to dismiss the visitors for 150 at tea on day one of the opening Test in Perth on Friday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
After captain Jasprit Bumrah won the toss, India lost six wickets in the middle session, including flamboyant Rishabh Pant (37) and impressive debutant Nitish Kumar Reddy (41).<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Hazlewood took 4-29 while Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Marsh and Pat Cummins all claimed two wickets each.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
After a crushing 3-0 home series defeat by New Zealand, India sprung a surprise at the toss by dropping veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, allrounder Ravindra Jadeja and middle-order batsman Sarfaraz Khan.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Coupled with the absence of opener and regular skipper Rohit Sharma following the birth of a child, and without injured number three Shubman Gill, it left India with a fragile batting lineup which Australia exploited.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
After four wickets fell before lunch, including Virat Kohli for five, Pant and Dhruv Jurel needed to hang around.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But it was not to be, with Jurel, preferred to Khan, surviving barely 10 minutes before succumbing to Australian T20 skipper Marsh on 11.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Filling the all-rounder role left vacant by the injured Cameron Green, Marsh tempted Jurel into a thick edge that carried to third slip Marnus Labuschagne.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He struck again soon after to remove Washington Sundar, gloving to wicketkeeper Alex Carey to leave the visitors staring down the barrel on 73-6.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Pant led a mini recovery, steering them past 100 after surviving a difficult dropped catch.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Partnered by Reddy, the runs began flowing more freely including the first six of the match.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Cummins finally ended Pant's exploits, taken sharply at slip by Steve Smith before Hazlewood removed Harshit Rana (7) and Bumrah (8).<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Earlier, Yashasvi Jaiswal departed without scoring in the third over, edging an attempted drive off Starc to debutant Nathan McSweeney, who did well to collect low at gully.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
With Gill missing, left-hander Devdutt Padikkal came in at three and survived a big lbw shout almost immediately.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Australia's pace attack was at full throttle and it proved slow going for India.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The nervy Padikkal faced 23 deliveries without scoring before his luck ran out when Hazlewood steamed in and enticed an edge that was easily taken by Carey.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
That brought Kohli to the crease, in dire need of a big score after only two Test centuries in the last five years and with questions mounting over whether he still warranted selection.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Despite a stellar record in Australia he was never comfortable and lasted just 12 balls before fending off a climbing Hazlewood thunderbolt on five that took an edge to Usman Khawaja at slip.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
India's woes worsened when opener KL Rahul feathered to Carey on 26.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The visitors have won their last two Border-Gavaskar trophy series in Australia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n