Newbie Yadav floors Aussies on Day I

Debutant Kuldeep Yadav and Umesh Yadav ripped apart the Australian batting line-up on the first day of the last Test as the visitors were bowled out at 300, here on Saturday.

Such was the situation that the commentators had jokingly mentioned during the post-lunch session "to be among the wickets, you have to be a Yadav today." Apart from the four wickets by chinaman bowler Kuldeep and two by Umesh, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Bhuvneshwar Kumar all managed to get a wicket apiece.

Despite a good and solid innings of 111 in 173 balls by Steven Smith and half centuries by David Warner (56 in 87 balls) and Matthew Wade (57 runs in 125 deliveries), Indian bowlers hit the Australians hard and they couldn't last a whole day.

Debutant Kuldeep Yadav displayed beautiful top spin, clinical wrist and deadly accuracy to stun the visitors. Call it beginner's luck or that he couldn't be read as he was fresh on the block, the visitors had a tough time facing him.

Kuldeep, India's first ever left-arm wrist spinner in Test cricket, took the Australian batting by surprise as his terrific post-lunch spell sent Warner, Peter Handscomb (8) and Glenn Maxwell (8) packing.

At stumps, India were 0/0 having played an over by Josh Hazlewood.

Earlier in the day, Umesh Yadav gave an ideal start to India when he bowled Matt Renshaw (1) in the second over but thereafter, Warner and Smith held the thread tight and owned the first session completely.

Warner, who might have found his form back, registered his first half-century of the series. After being dropped by Karun Nair off the first ball of the innings by Bhuvneshwar, Warner played second-fiddle to Smith and was effective enough through the entire first session.

Kuldeep's first ever Test wicket came in the 35th over when he trapped Warner in the 35th over with a flipper and good bounce as Ajinkya Rahane completed the job with a clean catch.

Unlike Warner, Smith looked comfortable and hit the bowlers all around the park. Bhuvneshwar and Umesh, both guilty of bad spells in the first session, enabled Smith to score at a good pace. Even Ashwin was unable to pose any real threat to the Australian captain before lunch.

Though Smith looked solid at one end, Shaun Marsh (4), in the 38th over, couldn't get the bottom of his glove away from the line of the Umesh ball, which was short down the legside, and Saha picked up a comfortable catch to send Marsh back to the pavilion.

Kuldeep picked his second soon after when he bowled out Handscomb with a flighted beauty. With the ball going towards the off-stump, Handscomb attempted to cover drive but it spun inside beautifully to leave the Australian bowled.

Maxwell became the next victim of Kuldeep's spin web as the former went on the wrong side of a deceptive googly and before he knew, the bails were dislodged.

Ashwin, who was having an average spell, bowled a demon spin that picked the all-important wicket of the Australian captain. Ashwin used the bounce of the wicket wonderfully and spun the ball towards the off-stump. Attempting to negotiate the ball, Smith edged the ball into the safe hands of Rahane.

It was only a matter of time after that as Indian bowlers completed the job before the end of the day.

Kuldeep caught and bowled Pat Cummins (21) in the 73rd over to register his fourth wicket of the day before substitute fielder Shreyas Iyer also joined the party running out Steve O-Keefe (8) in Ashwin's over.

Wicket-keeper Matthew Wade attempted to revive Australia with a defiant half-century but eventually let his guards off against top Test bowler Jadeja and was bowled in an attempt to sweep the ball.

Bhuvneshwar ended the first innings of the Aussies by dismissing Nathan Lyon with a beautiful in-swinger of which Cheteshwar Pujara made a good low catch.