Yashasvi Jaiswal on his debut in Australia had taunted Mitchell Starc “you’re bowling too slowly”. The Australian fast bowler was hardly in his elements in the opening game of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as Jaiswal slammed 161 and India romped to a 295-run victory.

Starc chose to return the compliments with a devastating spell on Friday. The left-arm seamer has always looked menacing with the pink ball, though he had expressed concerns when the concept of day-night Test was floated.

His career-best 6/48 was his fourth 5-wicket haul in day-night Tests and 15th overall as he ran riot at the Adelaide Oval dismissing India for 180. Australia, in reply, reached 86/1 at stumps on Day I.

"I know that the scores look like there is a big gap between the two teams but we still feel we are in the game,” India's assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate said.

Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Usman Khawaja in the twilight, but the under-pressure Marnus Labuschagne and Nathan McSweeney navigated a tricky passage of play to guide them to safety.

It was all about Starc and how he exploited the weaknesses of the India batters with extra bounce and seam movement. Dubbed 'Pink Panther' for his exploits with the pink ball, he dismissed Jaiswal for a golden duck.

Starc let go a ripper, one which swerved back into the line of the stumps to beat the attempted flick and thud into Jaiswal's front pad. It was so plumb that he didn't even bother to check with the TV umpire.

Starc struck in the first over of each of his three spells, asserting his supremacy in day-night Tests. He extended his pink-ball tally in Australia to 72, twice as many as Pat Cummins (36) has taken and 29 more than what Nathan Lyon, Starc's closest contender in pink-ball Test cricket.

The decision to bat first seemed justified as KL Rahul and Shubman Gill stitched together 69 runs before Australia regained control against the run of play.

Starc had Rahul caught low at gully by Nathan McSweeney in his second spell for 37 and then got a tentative Virat Kohli poking out and edging to second slip. Scott Boland added to India's problems by getting rid of Gill. India had lost 3 for 12 in a chaotic 15-minute period before the dinner break.

“It is the nature of the pink ball. Things happen in clumps, we lost wickets in clumps, which we wanted to avoid. I also thought that Mitchell’s (Starc) stock ball was very good and there are lessons to be learnt,” said Ten Doeschate.

Skipper Rohit Sharma, batting at No. 6, was done in by a sharp incoming delivery from Boland while Cummins dismissed Rishabh Pant with a snorter which reared up. Starc came back to claim his five-fer yorking both Ravichandran Ashwin and Harshit Rana in the same over.

Had it not been for Nitish Reddy's 42, India would have been in dire straits.