Australia's left arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc has wreaked havoc with his bowling in Adelaide. He has taken 6 wickets against India in the day-night test. Starc took all 6 wickets at the expense of 48 runs. He has taken 5 or more wickets for the 15th time in his Test career. However, this is the first time in his 13-year career that he has been able to achieve the feat of taking 5 plus wickets against India. Not only this, taking 6 wickets for 48 runs against India has also become his best performance in an innings of Test.

Starc opened his 'claw' against India in this way

Mitchell Starc started opening his claws against India in the Adelaide Test with the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal. He uprooted Jaiswal's legs from the crease on the very first ball of the match. After this, he broke his partnership with Gill by taking the wicket of Rahul. Starc dismissed Virat and dropped the third wicket in his bag. He took the fourth wicket of Ashwin when with the wicket of Harshit Rana he achieved the feat of taking 5 wickets for the first time in a Test against India. Starc did not stop here, after this he ended the Indian innings by taking his sixth wicket by dismissing Nitish Reddy.

5+ wickets against India for the first time in 13 years of career

Mitchell Starc made his Test debut in 2011, while he played his first Test match against India in January 2012. In his 13-year career, he took 5 or more wickets in an innings of a Test 15 times, but this is the first time against India that Starc took 5 plus wickets. The big thing is that by doing this against India, Starc has become the second highest left arm fast bowler in Tests taking 5 wickets. In this matter, he is just behind Wasim Akram, who has done this 25 times.

Most wickets in day-night test

Mitchell Starc opened his account of 5 plus wickets in the day-night test against India. He is also the bowler who has taken the most wickets in tests played with pink ball. So far, 72 wickets have been taken in Starc's name in the day-night test.