Mitchell Starc recorded career-best figures with the ball as Australia rolled India's top order, before the lights went out in the final session at Adelaide Oval.

Here are the quick hits from day one of the second Test.

1. Mitchell Starc wastes no time getting started

As is always the case at the start of a Test match, the anticipation was at fever pitch as Mitchell Starc took the brand new pink ball for Australia. 

Starc was told he was "too slow" by India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal during the second innings of the first Test as Jaiswal plundered Australia's attack to all parts of Perth Stadium.

It was a real alpha coming-of-age moment for Jaiswal, and Starc couldn't do anything but smile in response. Perhaps this was simply because this isn't the Aussie's first rodeo.

As the crowd got up and about in Adelaide, Starc bowled a full and swinging delivery, rapping the left-hander on his pads, with the umpire's finger coming up shortly after Australia's boisterous appeal.

Starc's dismissal of Jaiswal was the third time he's struck with the very first ball of a Test match. It was also the fourth time this has happened in a Test match played in Australia. 

The most recent occasion was when Starc famously sent England's Rory Burns packing with the first ball of the Ashes series in the summer of 2021.

2. Scott Boland denied twice in his opening over

Scott Boland had to wait well over a year in between Test appearances, and then a little bit longer, after Pat Cummins opted to take the new ball in Adelaide. 

He has become something of an Australian specialist, boasting figures of 28 wickets in seven home Tests at an average of 12.25 apiece, but last played in last year's Ashes in England, where he proved to be relatively toothless.

The Victorian came on after Cummins's first spell and thought he'd struck straight away when KL Rahul was given out caught behind with his very first delivery.

Unfortunately for Boland and Australia, their excitement was short-lived when Boland was called for a no ball just moments later. 

The drama wasn't done there though.

A few deliveries later, Boland again caught the edge of Rahul's bat, this time going to Usman Khawaja at first slip.

But the cricket gods truly didn't want Boland to thrive as Khawaja spilled a relatively simple chance diving to his right.

3. India's top-order collapse

After the blistering Starc start, India settled nicely.

KL Rahul and Shubman Gill were looking quite comfortable, putting on a half-century together.

But, once that pairing was breached, the Indians wobbled significantly.

Rahul (37) and Virat Kohli (7) edged behind off the bowling of Starc, while Boland eventually had something go his way with an LBW to claim Gill (31).

India had gone from 1-69 to 4-81 in two-and-a-half overs.

After the first break, things got even worse, with Rohit Sharma, batting at number six for the first time since 2018, fell for just 3, India falling to 5-87, a collapse of 4-18.

4. Starc and the pink ball — a match made in heaven

Mitchell Starc also quite likes the pink ball.

Coming into this Test, Starc had 68 wickets in his 13 pink-ball Tests, at an amazing average of 18.55, and a strike rate of 35.9.

By comparison, his red-ball average is 29.90 and his strike rate is 51.6.

So it was no surprise that he tore through the Indian batting line-up like a pink-hot knife through butter, taking 6-48, his career-best figures for an innings. 

It was his fourth five-wicket haul in pink ball Tests and 15th overall.

But it was the first he's taken in Australia in five years, since 2019 in Perth against New Zealand.

5. Ashwin's novelty review

Such is the way cricket is officiated, there can rarely be much doubt about when you're out.

The only exception to this is with leg before wicket, the umpire's discretion the sole arbiter of whether the ball would have gone on to hit the stumps or not.

In that sense, there will always be doubt when the ball hits the pads and the finger is raised.

But on some occasions, even accounting for human error, you just know.

One such instance was Ravichandran Ashwin, who was hit on the pads by a brutal in-swinging yorker dead in front.

Chris Gaffaney fired Ashwin out with his finger as fast as Starc turned around to ask, but Ashwin still reviewed.

It wasn't a great call.

"That's one of the best reviews I've seen," former England skipper Michael Vaughan joked on Fox Sports.

"It might have been going under."

6. The missed chances

Australia would have been thrilled with its efforts on day one, it could have been better,

The hosts' fielding was sloppy in the extreme, and India was gifted plenty of free runs.

First, KL Rahul was out off a no ball for a duck, then was dropped on 2. He made 37.

Rishabh Pant was dropped on 5 and went on to make 21, while Nitish Kumar Reddy should have been out on 0 for LBW but Australia opted not to review. He scored 42.

As good as the result looked, bowling India out for 180, you felt Australia let a fair few go.

The missed chances appeared to be contagious as India came out in the field. 

Jasprit Bumrah, as he tends to do, didn't take long to get an edge out of Nathan McSweeney, but Rishabh Pant dived full length to his right and dropped a catch that would've comfortably gone to Rohit Sharma at first slip.

7. Lights out at Adelaide Oval

Everyone can be pretty much in agreement that there are few sights as picturesque as the Adelaide Oval as the sun goes down.

The sunset colouring the sky, the floodlights illuminating the emerald jewel that is one of the world's most beautiful grounds.

Which is all well and good, as long as the lights stay on.

During Harshit Rana's over, the 18th of Australia's batting innings in the final session of the day, the lights went off.

Not once, but twice, plunging Adelaide Oval into darkness.

The Indian bowlers were frustrated, the punters got out their phone torches and waved them about.

But in the end, after a very short delay, the lights came back on with only a three-minute delay, meaning play ended at 10:03pm local.

8. Beer snake stops play

The worst thing a batter can do to a bowler — apart from smacking him for six — is to back away as the bowler is in the middle of his run-up.

So when Marnus Labuschagne did it to the ever-combustible Mohammed Siraj, you could understand why the bowler was annoyed.

The reason, though, was hilarious.

Behind the sightscreen at the Cathedral End was a man, running with a giant collection of beer cups, the oft-spotted cricket-loving creature: the beer snake.

It's one of the rare instances where a batter can probably be excused for backing away, in truth.

But that didn't placate Siraj, who hurled the ball towards the stumps anyway.

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