India off to slow start in 2nd Test

Warner also said that young opener Matt Renshaw’s gutsy knock at Pune had taken India completely by surprise.

Earlier Rahul had braved a tough morning session as well with pace spearhead Mitchell Starc and Lyon reducing India to 72-2 at lunch.

Lee has 53 scalps from 12 Tests against India while Lyon now has 58 from the same number of matches.

India have learnt their lessons from the debacle in Pune and will not repeat the mistakes in the second test against Australia, captain Virat Kohli said on Friday.

Interestingly, the Rising Pune Supergiants named Steve Smith skipper of their franchise and the Aussie celebrated his new appointment with a hundred and a Test win on his IPL homeground, MCA International Stadium, Pune.

Virat Kohli (13) played an bad leave to gift his wicket to Lyon for the fifth time in his career, more than any other bowler and burned a review with an terrible DRS referral.

Kohli hadn’t made his debut then but this time around, he is India’s man in-charge.

In Pune, they took just two-and-a-half days to secure a first test triumph in India since 2004, handing out a 333-run thumping to a side that had gone 20 tests without tasting defeat on home soil.

When Australia batted, Virat Kohli started with his pacers on a wicket that has shown considerable signs of wear and tear. On top of it they had a “designer” pitch in Pune, tailor-made for the Indian spinners to finish the match inside three days.

Chaos erupted thereafter when Lyon captured 5-10 in 38 balls, as Ravi Ashwin, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravindra Jadeja, KL Rahul and Ishant Sharma all fell under the off-spinner’s spell.

India also dropped Jayant Yadav for an extra batsman, Karun Nair, who scored an unbeaten triple century in his previous test last December. “There are six more times we’ve got to get him out to really cement this series”. “The guys are going to come out with much more intent in this game”. But since then, Pujara’s season has quietened down a little, and India would desperately love for their No. 3 to return to his best in this match, at the venue where his Test career began against this same opposition. “But we know they’re going to come back harder and we ve just got to adapt to the conditions again with what we face here (in Bengaluru)”. Rahul did a “Sehwag” in the very first ball and smashed a classic cover drive which went for four. For all the turn on offer it was often the straight delivery that took the wickets, and Smith believes that remains the danger ball for Australia.

“We have adapted to various conditions and various situations and that’s what we didn’t do in the last game”.