In the morning Ashwin, who had 3 for 63 in the first

innings, had Starc caught at deep mid-wicket off his fifth ball.

While Ashwin ended up with three victims, Umesh Yadav was the best bowler from the home side with superb figures of 4 for 32, his best at home and second-best overall after the 5 for 93 he took against the same opponents in Perth in January 2012 on his debut.

However, the Indians' delight at ending the Australian innings, which had bloomed due to Starc's counter-hitting last evening, was nipped in the bud when they lost three of their top scoring batsmen within the first 15 overs.

Hazlewood removed in-form opener Vijay for 10 with a ball that moved in a shade and took the outside edge as he poked at it in the seventh over of the innings.

Starc then stunned the hosts with a double strike in the first over of his second spell.

He first packed off another in-form batsman, Cheteshwar Pujara (6), with an unplayable snorter that the batsman gloved to wicketkeeper Matthew Wade.

The lanky pacer then struck the biggest blow of the morning by removing Kohli for a second-ball duck through a catch to the slip cordon as he drove away from body.

The Indian captain was dismissed for a duck for the first time at home and for only the fifth time in his 54-Test career. He had averaged 80 plus by tallying 1457 runs in the last 13 Tests.

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