Indian cricket great Virat Kohli has recorded an unwanted first, going out for a duck during the ODI clash with Australia in Perth.

Australian skipper Mitchell Marsh won the toss and sent the tourists into bat, and the Aussies quickly had them on the back foot at Optus Stadium.

Rohit Sharma was first to fall, edging one to second slip (Matt Renshaw) off the bowling of Josh Hazlewood for just eight runs.

Then Virat Kohli lasted eight balls without making a run before he was caught at backward point (Cooper Connolly) off the bowling of Mitch Starc.

The 36-year-old has featured in 30 ODI matches on Australian soil and never made a duck, up until now. And he looked bitterly disappointed as he departed the field following Connolly’s impressive diving catch.

Indian captain Shubman Gill

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