Mitchell Starc delivers career-best effort with first-ever five-wicket haul against India in Tests

You question the best players and they respond with their performance! This is what Mitchell Starc has done. After being 'too slow' for Yashasvi Jaiswal on the fastest wicket in Australia, the left-arm fast bowler nipped out the Indian opener on the first ball of the match in Adelaide and never looked back.

Starc seemed to have lost his shape after the early success but came back for his second spell to send back KL Rahul and Virat Kohli to trigger a collapse at the end of the first session. It was the late movement that induced the edge of both batters'. He came back for what turned out to be the final spell of the innings to nip out Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshit Rana and the ever-fighting Nitish Reddy.

With Rana's dismissal, Starc completed the first-ever five-wicket haul against India in his illustrious Test career and the fourth in pink-ball Test matches. Reddy's wicket was his sixth of the innings as the veteran registered the best figures of his career as well.

Thanks to his 15th five-wicket haul in Tests, India were bundled out for just 180 runs after opting to bat first. Nitish Reddy was the top-scorer for the team but at one stage, when they were 70/1 things seemed tougher for the hosts. But KL Rahul getting out to Starc was the turning point and the latter made sure to make a statement thereby helping his side massively as Australia look to make it 1-1 in the series.