David Warner Pat Cummins Nathan Lyon Alex Carey Steve Smith Rohit Sharma Ravindra Jadeja Peter Handscomb Matt Renshaw Todd Murphy Australia India cricket Test as David Warner Pat Cummins Nathan Lyon Alex Carey Steve Smith Rohit Sharma Ravindra Jadeja Peter Handscomb Matt Renshaw Todd Murphy Australia India

Jadeja bags 5-47 as India dominate Australia in Test opener

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Indian spinner Ravindra Jadeja grabbed a five-wicket haul on his international return as India ruled the opening day of the first Test against Australia on Thursday.ScorecardJadeja returned figures of 5-47 and fellow spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took three wickets to bowl out Australia for 177 in the final session on a turning Nagpur pitch.In reply, India were 77 for one at stumps, with skipper Rohit Sharma on 56 and Ashwin, yet to score, at the crease.

The hosts still trail Australia by 100 runs.Rohit began by hitting three boundaries off Australian skipper Pat Cummins' first over, and put on 76 runs with opening partner KL Rahul, who made a laboured 20.The Indian captain reached his fifty with a four off Nathan Lyon and remained sharp to see off the day's play.Rahul fell caught and bowled off debutant spinner Todd Murphy, who celebrated his first Test wicket.Jadeja, a left-arm orthodox bowler who came back into the Indian side after a knee injury, stood out with his guile, taking key wickets including those of Marnus Labuschagne (49) and Steve Smith (37).Both Australians had launched a fightback with their third-wicket 82-run stand after losing openers Usman Khawaja and David Warner early in the day.Peter Handscomb (31) and wicketkeeper-batsman Alex Carey (36) also put on a partnership of 53 before Ashwin ended Carey's spell at the crease to record his 450th Test wicket.Jadeja's double strike on successive balls soon after lunch rocked the tourists as he sent back Labuschagne and then trapped Matt Renshaw for a first-ball duck.He later bowled Smith with a delivery that went through his bat and pad.Ashwin and Jadeja kept up the charge to get into the Australian tail when the tourists took tea at 174-8, and added just

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