NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma "opted to rest" in the team's interest but the same old script unfolded on a new day for the Indian batters as they surrendered meekly for a paltry 185 in the face of some hostile seam bowling from Australia on the opening day of the fifth and final Test here.
Virat Kohli (17 off 69 balls), whose form and technical weaknesses are also under the scanner, was for the seventh time dismissed in the corridor of uncertainty on the tour, a problem that seems incurable at the moment.
At stumps, Australia were 9/1 with stand-in skipper Jasprit Bumrah sending the woefully out-of-form Usman Khawaja (2) back to the hut.
Teenage sensation Sam Konstas was unbeaten at 7 after hitting Bumrah for a first-ball four. The 19-year-old also had an animated exchange with the Indian star.
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