Australia accomplished a snug seven-wicket win in a rain-shortened first ODI towards India in Perth, with Virat Kohli dismissed for a duck on his worldwide return.
Damp situations noticed the match lowered to 26 overs-a-side, with India finally posting 136-9 after their innings was halted for rain six occasions.
The guests have been stricken by common wickets, with Rohit Sharma and Kohli, each enjoying their first worldwide match since March, departing contained in the powerplay, the latter for an eight-ball duck.
The dismissals of Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer noticed India slip to 45-4 within the 14th over earlier than KL Rahul, top-scoring with 38, rebuilt his aspect’s innings alongside Axar Patel (31) and Washington Sundar.
Nevertheless, the latter’s exit within the twenty fourth over sparked one other flurry of wickets, with India shedding 4-21.
Josh Hazlewood led the best way with the ball, taking 2-20 from seven overs, with Mitchell Owen and Matthew Kuhnemann additionally taking two wickets.
Australia additionally misplaced two powerplay wickets – Travis Head and Matthew Quick each dismissed for eight – however made gentle work of chasing their revised goal of 131.
Mitchell Marsh anchored his aspect’s innings with an unbeaten 46 (52), sharing a 55-run third-wicket partnership with Josh Philippe (37 off 29) earlier than seeing Australia over the road alongside ODI debutant Matt Renshaw (21* off 24) with 29 balls to spare.
The second ODI will happen in Adelaide on Thursday, 23 October.
