Australia star sets unwanted record as India Test series begins with pure chaos

Runs were clearly not on the menu in the opening day of the first Test between Australia and India.

Instead, wickets were the meal of choice as Australia bowled India out for a measly 150 before tea at Perth Stadium.

However, it was India who ended day one in the box seat thanks to the brilliance of Jasprit Bumrah on a chaotic opening day.

The Indian bowler enjoyed a stunning spell of three wickets for just nine runs from six overs, as Australia made it to stumps sitting precariously at 7/67 and trailing by 83 runs, with Alex Carey (19*) and Mitchell Starc (6*) at the crease.

Bumrah ultimately finished the opening day with figures of 4/17 and would have had a fifth were it not for Virat Kohli dropping an absolute sitter.

Having dismissed Test debutant Nathan McSweeney for 10 in the third over, Bumrah thought he'd snared a second wicket in the space of three deliveries when Marnus Labuschagne edged the ball to Kohli in the slips.

The ball nestled in Kohli's hands as Bumrah and his teammates wildly celebrated.

But Kohli was unmoved and revealed he'd somehow dropped the ball, with replays showing it had remarkably fallen from his grasp at the last second.

Speaking on Australian sports radio channel SEN, commentator Gerard Whateley couldn't believe what he'd seen from the Indian icon.

"It's a terrible drop by Kohli," Whateley said.

"It's the sort of dropped catch that adds to the narrative of the ageing player whose eye isn't what it used to be."

Bumrah soon struck twice in the seventh over when opener Usman Khawaja edged his teasing delivery to Kohli and exited for 8.

Steve Smith was next in as he returned to his preferred spot at fourth in the order having spent time as an opener in the wake of David Warner's retirement.