Live 1st Test: Cheteshwar Pujara defies Australia with brilliant century

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India 250/9 at Stumps on Day 1

OVERS 87.5: OUT! Pujara hits to mid-on and goes for a fast single, however is not able to overcome the bright direct hit from Pat Cummins. Pujara out for 123

OVERS 86.5: BIG HIT! Pujara cuts over backward level for a six. Starc at the receiving end

OVERS 86.Four: FOUR! Pujara flicks between advantageous leg and deep sq. leg for 4

OVERS 84.three: BRILLIANT CENTURY! Cheteshwar Pujara reaches his 16th century with a flick to sq. leg for two

OVERS 83.6: FOUR! Pujara pulls to mid-wicket to succeed in 99

OVERS 83.5: BIG HIT! 5000 Test runs for Pujara as he hooks over advantageous leg for a six

OVERS 82.5: FOUR! Shami cuts a wide supply to 3rd man to get off the mark

OVERS 82.Four: BANG ON TARGET! Starc bowls full and fast and the red cherry rattles the stumps after hitting Ishant (Four) at the pads. India 210/8

OVERS 80.three: Ishant shoulder fingers to an incoming supply and is hit at the pads, he is given out, however he goes for the evaluation and the replays show the ball is going over the stumps

End of the 80th over, the second one new ball is due now and Australia take it straightaway and Mitchell Starc is again within the assault

OVERS 78.2: Pujara flicks to advantageous leg for two, 200 up for India

OVERS 76.2: FOUR! Ishant Sharma gets off the mark with a slog sweep for 4 to advantageous leg

OVERS 73.6: WICKET! Cummins squares up Ashwin (25) who gets a forefront to be grabbed by means of Handscomb at 2nd slip. India 189/7

OVERS 68.Four: 50-run rise up between Pujara and Ashwin

OVERS 62.5: FOUR! Pujara edges over the slips for his fifth boundary

OVERS 58.Four: FIFTY! 20th half-century for Pujara as he flicks to advantageous leg for a single. Pujara is waging a lone battle at the Adelaide Oval

Players again at the box after the Tea smash, Cummins begins the court cases

India 143/6 at tea on Day 1

OVERS 52.three: FOUR! Pujara cuts over backward level for his fourth boundary

OVERS 49.1: WICKET! Lyon gets his 2nd wicket as Pant (25) edges to keeper Paine for the catch. India 127/6

OVERS 46.Four: FOUR! Cummins comes around the wicket, Pant quilt drives a full toss for his 2nd boundary

OVERS 40.three: FOUR! Pant edges during the slips for 4. 100 up for India

OVERS 40.2: BIG HIT! Rishabh Pant flicks a Starc supply over sq. leg for a six

OVERS 39.5: FOUR! Pujara goes to the again foot and hits a Lyon supply during the covers for his 3rd boundary

OVERS 37.three: WICKET! Nathan Lyon has his revenge. Rohit (37) comes down the pitch, Lyon shortens his duration, Rohit heaves and mishits it high up within the air, Marcus Harris takes a well-judged catch at deep sq. leg. India 86/5

OVERS 37.2: BIG HIT! Rohit slog sweeps over mid-wicket for a six

OVERS 34.1: FOUR! Pujara cuts a Starc supply over the slips for his 2nd boundary

OVERS 33.three: BIG HIT! Rohit Sharma hits a Cummins supply over the covers for a six! He made it glance ridiculously simple

OVERS 27.2: Rohit Sharma quilt drives for 4, a classic quilt power

The players are again at the box, Cummins to start out the court cases after lunch

India 56/Four at Lunch on Day 1

OVERS 25.Four: BIG HIT! Rohit Sharma pulls a Cummins supply over sq. leg for a six!

OVERS 20.2: WICKET! Hazlewood again within the assault, Rahane (13) reaches out to a wide supply and edges to 2nd slip for Peter Handscomb to take the catch at 2nd slip. India 41/Four

OVERS 15.5: BIG HIT! Ajinkya Rahane comes down the pitch and hits a Nathan Lyon supply over extensive long-on for the first six of the match

OVERS 10.three: BIG WICKET! Virat Kohli (three) drives from method outdoor off stump and edges to gully where Usman Khawaja dives to his left to take an incredible catch. Pat Cummins strikes in his first over. India 19/three

Ten overs long gone and Pat Cummins has been introduced within the assault

OVERS 6.6: WICKET! Starc comes over the wicket and induces the threshold off Vijay's bat to be caught behind by means of Tim Paine. The 2nd opener falls for 11. India 15/2

OVERS 5.5: FOUR! Vijay reaches out extensive of off stump and slashes and slashes it exhausting through gully for his first boundary

OVERS 1.6: WICKET! Rahul (2) edges to 3rd slip for Aaron Finch to take the catch. Hazlewood gets the first breakthrough for Australia

OVERS 1.Four: Vijay flicks to mid-wicket for a single to get off the mark

Josh Hazlewood shares the brand new ball with Starc, Vijay on strike

OVER zero.Four: Rahul flicks to deep mid-wicket for two, gets off the mark

Murali Vijay and Lokesh Rahul walk out to open the innings for India. Mitchell Starc to start out for Australia. ALL SET!

Indian captain Virat Kohli has gained the toss and opted to bat towards Australia at the Adelaide Oval.

Rohit Sharma will bat at six, Hanuma Vihari misses out for India.

India (Playing XI): Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (Capt.), Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami

Australia (Playing XI): Marcus Harris, Aaron Finch, Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, Peter Handscomb, Travis Head, Tim Paine (wk/Capt.), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon

An Indian group brimming with self assurance will intention to in spite of everything shed the deficient travellers' tag when it takes on a circumspect Australia in what is being perceived as the tourists' best opportunity to win a Test collection Down Under in 70 years.

While the narrative remained same throughout the sooner excursions of South Africa (1-2) and England (1-Four), Virat Kohli and his men will like to stroll the controversy as India's tricky cycle of away assignment ends with this four-Test collection starting at the Adelaide Oval.

The collection is much more essential for Kohli as it will also outline his legacy as a pacesetter having already established himself as global's premier batsman.

India's past Test file in Australia is reasonably abysmal. In 44 Tests on Australian soil, they have only managed five wins thus far.

In 70 years and over 11 excursions, only two drawn collection, below Sunil Gavaskar in 1980-81 and with Sourav Ganguly in fee in 2003-04 is more a reflection of temperament of traveling sides over time somewhat than high quality.