"I heard a lot about the Perth wicket. There was a bit of nervousness. It was in the back of my mind that everyone was talking about the bounce on Perth wicket. But then I remembered the chat I had with Gautam sir after our last practice session," Nitish told reporters during the post-day press meet yesterday. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Mitch Marsh just got done with an interview to SEN Radio and he was asked about that first burst from Bumrah in which he took three wickets. "It was one of the better spells I've seen in person in my Test career," he said. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Right Kohli has taken the bat now, he is done with his fielding drills. Bowling coach Morne Morkel is talking to Harshit Rana. Among the Australians, Mitchell Marsh just got done with a little chat with SEN Radio. We will get you the quotes as soon as it becomes available. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Regardless of whether he is playing or not, Ravichandran Ashwin possesses a brain that is invaluable and we can see him being as involved as anyone in the preparations today. He is going around talking to bowlers and now we can see him deep in conversation with captain Bumrah and head coach Gambhir near the pitch. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Russell Arnold and Wasim Akram on the pitch report. The former says that it is going to be a much warmer day today. Wicket is exactly the same as yesterday, says Wasim. Still a lot of grass on the pitch, everywhere, not just certain areas and there will be questions everytime the ball hits them. Not an easy wicket to bat on he says. "Countries we come from, we hardly see grass on the square, this is a lot of grass," he says. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: As stated yesterday, it was quite wet going into this Test match in Perth but none of that thus far once it has started. It was bright and sunny yesterday and it remains the same today as the teams warm-up for Day 2. We can see Bumrah talking to Gambhir and a couple of other members of the Indian backroom staff. Kohli and the rest of the slip cordon are doing catching drills. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Verbal aggression is something that was almost synonymous to the Indian Test team at their peak under Virat Kohli's captaincy whenever they were fielding, particularly against the stronger sides like Australia. It is something that seems to have faded off in the months since Kohli resigned but it was very much there yesterday and it was the man himself who led that. Kohli asked Labuschagne if he had a bat or not when the Australian was leaving balls, he was whipping off the bails as soon as the ball came to him after he was delivered, seemingly mocking Alex Carey's dismissal of Jonny Bairstow that sent England into meltdown in the last Ashes. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Nitish Reddy smashed 74 runs in just 34 balls in his second international match - a T20I against Bangladesh in Delhi. That was on October 9, just over a month later, he played a knock walking in at No.8 that saved India from some serious blushes. He scored 41 in 59 balls, thus being India's highest scorer. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Rishabh Pant has now scored 661 runs in Australia which is the most by any visiting wicketkeeper-batter in the country. Alan Knott's tally of 643 in 22 innings. Pant has batted in just 13 innings in Australia and has scored no less than 23 runs in all of them. The previous best for an Indian wicketkeeper was the 471 runs scored by Syed Kirmani in 17 innings. MS Dhoni used to be second with 311 runs in 13 innings. Kirmani had an average of 29.43 in Australia, Dhoni went at 19.43. Pant is averaging 60.09. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Devdutt Padikkal's dismissal yesterday marked the 18th time this year that an Indian batter had fallen for a duck in Tests. That is the most for India in a calendar year, surpassing 17 each in 1983 and 2008. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Seam movement or not, the bottom line is that India were all out for just 150 runs after choosing to bat first. It was the fifth time India were all out for less than 160 this year in Tests. Only twice did India get bowled out under 160 more often in Tests in a calendar year - six times in 1952 and 1959 and had five times in 2018. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: India's top six collapsed for about 70 odd runs yesterday and this is something that has happened more often than not in this ongoing Test season. However, Australia haven't been far better, something that has gone somewhat unnoticed because of just how lethal their bowling attack has been and because they've had one or two acts of individual brilliance now and then in Test matches this year. Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head are all searching for form, Usman Khawaja hasn't exactly been at his best and this is only Nathan McSweeney's first Test match. Mitch Marsh is Mitch Marsh and the only man who has been in any kind of form in first class cricket - Alex Carey - is also the man who looked most settled yesterday among his teammates. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: This pitch was seaming around already. Add to that the guile of Jasprit Bumrah and Australia had a concoction that they simply couldn't digest on Day 1. If in case you missed the action yesterday, well this is Test cricket in Australia which means we will have some good video packages. They were nice enough to make a compilation of every delivery Burmah sent in on the first day. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: As stated earlier, KL Rahul fell to a rather questionable decision towards the end of the first session. Rahul had been given not out off Mitchell Starc after the Australians appealed for an edge to the wicketkeeper. The hosts reviewed and the third umpire Richard Illingworth asked his onfield colleague Richard Kettleborough to reverse his decision as Rahul walked off shaking his head following a 74-ball effort. The wicket left India on 47 for 4 after choosing to bat. Now from the camera angles available to the third umpire, it looked like there was a spike right as the ball passed the bat but from the offside view, which wasn't used during the review process, it looked like the noise may have come from the bat thudding Rahul's pad the instant after the ball crossed the bat. Rahul walked off indicating angrily that it was his pad that the bat made contact with. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: KL Rahul's innings seemed like an impressive one while it was happening and it started looking even better when the Australian batters fell line nine pins after the Indian innings. He got into double figures only after batting for 42 balls. Rahul would've batted the entire first session had it not been for a rather questionable dismissal right at the end of it. Rahul fell after scoring 26 in 74 balls, looking the most settled batter while he was out there by some distance. Put in the fact that he has gone back to being an opener after playing in the middle order for over a year in ODIs and Tests just for this innings because of the absence of Rohit Sharma and this knock looks even more impressive India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: He was hitting the deck, he was staring the batters down and he celebrated his maiden international wicket with gusto. He even got belted around a bit. Harshit Rana bowled eight overs on Day 1 and conceded 33 runs. But that was part of the learning curve for him. Most of those he conceded in a single over to Travis Head but then he course-corrected next over and dismissed the fast-scoring Australian. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: There were three ducks yesterday and all of them had their own little back stories. Yashasvi Jaiswal, the boy wonder, had a baptism by fire in his first senior innings in Australia across formats. He was nice and solid in a vicious opening over from Mitchell Starc but went for a big booming drive on the up first ball of the pacer's second. Edge and a good catch by Nathan McSweeney at gully - 8-ball duck. The next one was rather epic, so much so that just the innings was a story in itself and it needed no background context. But there still was one. Devdutt Padikkal was filling in for Shubman Gill, who had replaced the indomitable Cheteshwar Pujara, who is one of the holograms being projected quite clumsily to Australia as part of their broadcast team. He was pinned to the crease for 23 balls, missing a few scoring opportunities as well, and finally nicked behind to the wicketkeeper off Josh Hazlewood. The third duck was an Australian one, and the biggest one at that. To add to all that, it was a golden one as well. Steve Smith got a delivery that seamed in about 100 miles from the magical hands of Jasprit Bumrah, he tried to jam the bat down but was done by the pace as well. Bumrah was on a hat-trick after that wicket, having dismissed Usman Khawaja the ball before, and Australia in complete disarray. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Australia are 67/7 in 27 overs at the start of Day 2, trailing India's 150 by 83 runs with just three wickets in hand. The in-form Alex Carey is the last recognised batter and he is on 19 off 28. At the other end is a pretty capable Mitchell Starc on six off 14. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Bumrah bowled 10 overs, eight of them on the trot in his opening burst. He finished with utterly stunning figures of 4/17 with a scarcely believable economy of 1.70. His victims were Nathan McSweeney, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith and his opposite number Pat Cummins India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: As many as 17 wickets fell yesterday - 10 Indian ones and seven Australian. That is the most that have fallen on Day 1 of a Test in Australia since 1952. Regardless of whether the ball was new or semi-old (it never really got time to get properly old in either innings, not yet at least), it was seaming and moving around like a homing device. India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: A very experienced side, with opener Nathan McSweeney being the only new blood there. Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: This is a very interesting Indian squad, with some of the peculiarities because of injuries and some others by design. KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Dhruv Jurel, Nitish Reddy, Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah(c), Mohammed Siraj India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE Score: Why all the anticipation for this series? Well you must have got your answer yesterday. Unfortunately, though, if this is the only way batters can play (or not) on this pitch, then well, I may be welcoming you to the last day of this Test already! Stay tuned for more updates.