India v Australia 1st Test: Tourists crush India

First Test scores

Australia won by 333 runs.

Australia 1st Inns 260 (Renshaw 68, Starc 61, Warner 38; Umesh Yadav 4-32, Ashwin 3-63, Jadeja 2-74)  

India 1st Inns 105 (Rahul 64; O'Keefe 6-35, Starc 2-38)    

Australia 2nd Inns 285 (Smith 109, Renshaw 31, M Marsh 31; Ashwin 4-119, Jadeja 3-65) 

India 2nd Inns 107 (Pujara 31; O'Keefe 6-35, Lyon 4-53)

Day three report

Steve O'Keefe finished with 12 wickets as Australia ended India's 19-Test unbeaten streak with a crushing 333-run triumph within three days in Pune.

The 32-year-old spinner followed up his first-innings six for 35 with identical figures in the second as the hosts were skittled for 107. 

Fellow spinner Nathan Lyon snared the other four wickets.

Australia captain Steve Smith had earlier posted his 18th Test hundred - his first in India - to help his team pull away to 285, setting the home team a daunting victory target of 441.

The result, in the first Test of a four-match series, was Australia's first win on Indian soil since 2004. 

Having secured a first-innings lead of 155 on day two by dismissing the hosts for just 105, the tourists resumed their second innings on 143 for four on Saturday with Smith and Mitchell Marsh in the middle.

Marsh departed for 31 to Ravindra Jadeja, but there was no stopping Smith, who had ridden his luck in being dropped three times on Friday, but played superbly for a cherished first Ton in India.

The milestone arrived thanks to a drive to deep cover off Jadeja which yielded two runs, prompting the Australia skipper to take off his helmet and punch the air in delight.

He nudged Australia's lead to the 400 mark before being dismissed three balls later, trapped lbw by Jadeja for 109.

Matthew Wade (20) and Mitchell Starc (30) also helped boost the Australia total, which, it turned out, was already way beyond their hosts.

India may have thought it could not get much worse with the bat after their first-innings demise came in just 40.1 overs, but the second took only 33.5.

O'Keefe, who had managed just 14 wickets in his previous four Tests, set the tone by seeing off Murali Vijay (two) lbw in the fifth over.

Lokesh Rahul (10) followed at the hands of Lyon in the next over and, when captain Virat Kohli (13) then left a straight one from O'Keefe and had his off stump knocked back, the writing was on the wall.

O'Keefe accounted for Ajinkya Rahane (18), Ravichandran Ashwin (eight), Wriddhiman Saha (five) and Cheteshwar Pujara (31) to leave the hosts reeling on 100 for seven.

Lyon then returned to polish off the tail - Jadeja (three), Ishant Sharma (nought) and Jayant Yadav (five) - to send India tumbling to a first home Test loss since England's victory in Kolkata in December 2012.
 

Day two report

Close of play:  Australia 2nd Inns 143-3 (Smith 59*, Renshaw 31; Ashwin 3-68)  

India suffered a horrendous batting collapse of seven wickets for 11 runs as they were bowled out by Australia for 105 on day two of the first Test, in Pune.

Australian left-arm spinner Steve O'Keefe did the damage, grabbing a career-best 6-35, before the visitors then closed the day on 143-4, leading by 298.

Skipper Steve Smith finished unbeaten on 59, though he was dropped three times earlier in his innings, on 23, 29 and 37.

At the start of the day India still had one Australian first-innings wicket to take, and they got it with the fifth ball of the day - Mitchell Starc (61) out slog-sweeping to midwicket - to dismiss the tourists for 260.

In reply, India lost three wickets before lunch, Josh Hazlewood (1-11) picking up Murali Vijay (10) caught behind before Mitchell Starc (2-38) took two wickets in two balls.

The left-armer first had Cheteshwar Pujara (six) gloving behind before taking the prized wicket of Indian captain Virat Kohli - driving loosly to first slip - for his first ever duck on home soil.

KL Rahul struck a gritty 64, putting on a fifty partnership with Ajinkya Rahane (13) either side of lunch, but then three O'Keefe wickets in one over opened the floodgates.

Firstly, Rahul uncharacteristically hoisted the spinner straight to David Warner at long-on before Rahane was caught at forward short-leg, then Wriddhiman Saha (0) edged to slip.

Nathan Lyon (1-21) removed Ravichandran Ashwin (one) in the next over, before O'Keefe rattled through the tail - his six wickets taking just 24 deliveries.

India introduced spin immediately to start Australia's second innings, and Ashwin trapped David Warner (10) lbw with just the sixth ball.

Shaun Marsh - out for a 21-ball duck - suffered the same fate to the spinner mere overs later, but any potential Indian fightback was halted by Smith.

Receiving useful supports from Peter Hanscomb (19), Matt Renshaw (31) - sharing in a 52-run stand - and Mitchell Marsh (21no) the Australian captain was able to go through to his 21st Test fifty, with his side well on top by stumps.

Day one report

Close of play: Australia 1st Inns 256-9 (Renshaw 68, Starc 57*, Warner 38; Umesh Yadav 4-32, Ashwin 2-59, Jadeja 2-74)   

An unbeaten half-century from Mitchell Starc helped edge Australia to 256 for nine at the end of the opening day of the first Test against India in Pune.

Opener Matthew Renshaw hit a determined 68 after initially retiring ill just before lunch - dashing off to the dressing rooms as he battled what was said to be a stomach bug - before returning to the crease following some 32 overs out of the action.

Four wickets for Umesh Yadav (pictued) had threatened to unsteady the tourists during the closing sessions before number eight Starc produced stubborn resistance to end the day 57 not out from just 58 deliveries which included five boundaries and three shots over the ropes.

After Renshaw, in his first Test innings on the sub-Continent, was finally out, caught by Murali Vijay at second slip off Ravichandran Ashwin, Australia were left 196 for seven.

India, though, kept the pressure on as Yadav had Steve O'Keefe caught behind at full stretch by Wriddhiman Saha without troubling the scorers and Nathan Lyon was then trapped leg before on the next delivery, which was confirmed on review with Australia 205 for nine.

Before tea, Australia had lost two wickets in as many overs.

Peter Handscomb was out lbw to Ravindra Jadeja and captain Steve Smith, who had won the toss and decided to bat, was soon following him back to the pavilion after sending a flat delivery outside off stump from Ashwin straight to India skipper Virat Kohli at mid-wicket to leave Australia at 149 for four.

Mitchell Marsh was then given caught behind off his second delivery from Ashwin, but the decision was overturned by the third umpire on review.

There was, though, no doubts after tea when Jadeja had the all-rounder leg before in the 68th over. Marsh managed just four runs, with Australia at 166 for five before Yadav went to work on the tail but found Starc in no mood to throw away his wicket.

At the close, Josh Hazlewood was one not out, having spent almost an hour at the crease in support of his fellow pace bowler.

Opener David Warner had earlier put on 82 with Renshaw, who was on 36, for the first wicket before he was bowled off the inside edge off Yadav for 38 before seeing his partner dash off, which brought Smith and Shaun Marsh together in the centre as Australia reached 84 for one at lunch.

Shaun Marsh had made 16 before he was caught at leg slip after attempting a sweep at a flat delivery from Jayant Yadav which went up off his bats onto gloves and then the back of his bat out to Kohli.

Umesh Yadav finished the pick of the India bowlers with four wickets for 32 runs from his 12 overs, which included three maidens.