Virender Sehwag’s highest score in Australia in test cricket is 195, which came in the 2003 Melbourne test. Batting first, Sehwag blasted 25 fours and five sixes in his sizzling knock of 195 runs off 233 balls, giving a huge scare to the Aussies.

India has won the toss and elected to bat in the opening test of the Border-Gavaskar five-match series at Perth Stadium.

Australia's seamers, led by Josh Hazlewood who claimed four wickets, combined to bundle India out for 150 on Friday but the hosts fared even worse with the bat on day one of the first test, slumping to 67-7 at stumps in Perth.

Bumrah was right on the target from the ball one, causing trouble to the new opening pair of Nathan McSweeney and Usman Khawaja, before removing the debutant on just ten. He could have bagged twice in the same over had Kohli not dropped Labuschagne’s sitter in the second slip.

Indian fans had a sense of deja vu at the Optus Stadium in Perth, as they were subjected into a now-familiar collapse in their first innings in the BGT.