Mitchell Starc shuts Yashasvi Jaiswal, takes perfect revenge after Perth 'you're too slow' humiliation - Watch

Mitchell Starc shuts Yashasvi Jaiswal, takes perfect revenge after Perth 'you're too slow' humiliation (AFP/AP Photo)

The second Test between India and Australia, which is a Day-Night affair at Adelaide Oval, saw Mitchell Starc give hosts a perfect start. Starc got rid of previous match centurion Yashasvi Jaiswal for a golden duck, which was in the first ball of the match. By doing this Starc also redeemed himself as he was involved in a bit of banter against the youngster in the previous match at Perth, which India won by 295 runs. (Follow | IND vs AUS, 2nd Test Day 1 Live Updates)

In the match played at Perth, India's newcomer Harshit Rana tried troubling Starc, his ex-Kolkata Knight Riders colleague, with a barrage of short deliveries. Then Starc had remarked Rana that he can bowl quicker than him and has a good memory.

However, Yashasvi, who is usually high on confidence, decided to take the banter ahead and while he was batting flawlessly in the second innings he tried to poke Starc by saying "you're too slow". Starc had then just laughed at the Indian youngster.

However, moving forward to the second Test Starc shut Yashasvi with an in-swinging delivery, which knocked Yashasvi's pad and appeared like a plumb. The umpire didn't hesitate from raising his finger and after a brief chat with KL Rahul, his opening partner, the batter decided to not take a review. Ball tracker showed that it was pitching in line and was knocking the stumps so it wouldn't have helped India if they had taken a review.

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Luck saves KL Rahul twice

Meanwhile, Rahul also survived two nervy moments, both coming in the first over by Scott Boland, who replaced Josh Hazlewood in the Australian playing XI. He was given out caught behind in the very first ball but the bowler had overstepped. In fact a review could have saved Rahul as there were no spike on the UltraEdge when the ball passed close to the bat and glove region.

He was then dropped by Usman Khawaja at slips later in the over. It was a low catch and Khawaja even got his hand to it but failed to grab the ball.

India have won the toss and opted to bat.