As it happened Australia v India first Test: India thrash Australia by an innings and 132 runs; Murphy takes seven wickets on debut

It is still amazing to think that Ravindra Jadeja was out for five months with injury before this Test yet has turned on a man of the match performance with seven wickets and 70 runs.

His bowling and batting were a treat to watch and, especially, his placement and control of his left-arm spinners.

“It feels amazing to come back after five months and score runs, take wickets, and give your 100 percent,” Jadeja said post game.

“I bat at a crucial position and try not to change many things. While bowling, I was trying to keep it at the stumps so that the batsmen make mistakes (to get out).”

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Australian captain Patrick Cummins has admitted his side left too much many runs on the field in the first innings.

Cummins won the toss and batted but his side could only make 177 before being bowled out, India made 400 and effectively batted them out of the game before bowling the Australians out for 91 before tea on day three.

“The game moves pretty quickly at times. You have to manage your tempos,” Cummins said post game.

“I thought India played really well, their spinners are always going to be hard work when the wicket is spinning and thought Rohit showed his class. That first innings, the wicket spun but wasn’t unplayable.

“I would have loved another 100 or so runs and put a bit more pressure on their first innings. Obviously, starting here is tough but three or four of our guys got in and started to look pretty comfortable in the first innings. Those guys who do get in have got to turn it into big scores.”

Cummins also said Victorian spinner Todd Murphy did very well to get seven wickets on debut.

“He was fantastic on debut. He’s been very impressive and bowled plenty of overs,” Cummins said.

Allan Border has called for Australia to immediately start “soul searching” for a way to get back into the series after their first Test loss to India.

“Ultimately – the boys with the bat and ball in hand are the ones that have to do the job,” Border said on Fox Sports.

“It’s going to be hard to find a way but they will have to do a big soul-searching, dressing room [meeting] tonight to try and thrash something out.

“That is as bad as we can play, there is only one way to go from here.”

India allrounder Ravi Jadeja has been fined for failing to notify umpires he was applying ointment to a sore finger during the first Test against Australia.

Jadeja found himself caught up in a fierce debate after broadcast vision captured him taking something out of teammate Mohammed Siraj’s hand during day one in Nagpur on Thursday.

After the exchange with Siraj, Jadeja then rubbed his hands and left index finger around the ball, smeared with what he later explained was a soothing cream.

Jadeja was found to have breached the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) code of conduct and was fined 25 per cent of his match fee.

The 34-year-old admitted to the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by match referee Andy Pycroft.

“In reaching his decision to sanction the player along with the Level 1 sanction he imposed, the match referee was satisfied that the cream was applied to the finger purely for medical purposes,” an ICC statement said.

“The cream was not applied as an artificial substance to the ball and consequently, it did not change the condition of the ball, which would have been in breach of clause 41.3 of the ICC playing conditions.”

Jadeja, India captain Rohit Sharma and the team’s manager were on Thursday night shown a clip of the incident, which took place when Australia were 5-120.

It is not uncommon for spinners to suffer calluses from gripping the ball, especially after not playing regularly.

“The India team management had explained that the finger spinner was applying the cream to a swelling on the index finger of his bowling hand,” the ICC statement said.

“This was done without asking for permission from the on-field umpires.“

Debate about the incident ignited when former Australia captain Tim Paine replied to a Twitter user on Thursday asking what he thought of the footage with the word “interesting”.

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Former Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin thinks Australia were tricked into focusing on the condition of the pitch rather than playing their own game.

Haddin said the media coverage and pictures of the wicket distracted the side from batting the way they usually would and were found wanting.

“ I think that the energy was put into the wrong places. That wicket didn’t play as bad as the score suggested,” Haddin said on Fox Sports.

“We have to look at that innings, I think six Australians went out lbw.

“They were totally outclassed by India. I think they put too much energy into worrying about what the surface was going to do.”

Australian great Allan Border has demanded the team find solutions for the second Test after an embarrassing defeat to India inside three days.

“Hopefully, our players are very embarrassed by that,” Border said on Fox Sports.

Australian captain Patrick Cummins his side didn’t handle the game and tempo well enough in the first Test.

Cummins said the conditions were “not unplayable” and several batsmen made starts but couldn’t go on with it.

“The game moves pretty quickly at times here in India so you have to manage the tempos – I thought they played very well,” Cummins said during the post game presentations.

Ravindra Jadeja was named man of the match.

Indian star Ravichandran Ashwin says India’s batting and their early wickets set the direction for his nation’s innings and 132-run victory over Australia.

Ashwin said the early wickets set the tone in the second innings while India’s three spinners all made an impact with Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel also very damaging alongside him.

Ashwin took 5-37 in the second innings.

“He’s just been a fantastic cricketer [Jadeja], and I just can’t talk about me, I’m so thankful for the fact that I’ve got a partner like him to be boring alongside,” Ashwin said.

“Axel is no ordinary bowler either. So we’ve got a very good set of spinners and all of us can bat.”

Shami has trapped Boland lbw with a ball heading for the leg stump.

The game is over. Australia lose by an innings and 132 runs.

This loss will sting, all out for 91 before tea on day three.