Australia beat India in rain-shortened first ODI

First ODI

India 136-9 (26 overs): Rahul 38 (31), Hazlewood 2-20

Australia 131-3 (21.1 overs): Marsh 46* (52), Patel 1-19

By seven wickets (DLS), Australia won.

Virat Kohli was dismissed for a duck on his international return, giving Australia a comfortable seven-wicket victory over India in Perth’s rain-shortened first ODI.

The match was shortened to 26 overs-a-side due to poor weather, with India eventually posting 136-9 after their innings was halted six times due to rain.

Rohit Sharma and Kohli, who were playing their first international match since March, both started the match with an eight-ball duck inside the powerplay.

India fell 45-4 in the 14th over after Shubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer were both dismissed, but KL Rahul, who had top-scored 38 runs, rebuilt his side’s innings along with Axar Patel (31) and Washington Sundar.

However, India lost 4-21 after the latter’s exit in the 24th over sparked a further flurry of wickets.

Mitchell Owen and Matthew Kuhnemann both took two wickets, with Josh Hazlewood taking the ball for 2-20 from seven overs.

Travis Head and Matthew Short both received eight powerplay wickets, but Australia managed to get close to hitting their revised target of 131.

Mitchell Marsh and Josh Philippe shared a 55-run third-wicket partnership with Josh Philippe (37 off 29), and Australia triumphed with Matt Renshaw (21-6 off 24), who had 29 balls to play in the opener.