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Adelaide: Varun Aaron (4/41) and Karn Sharma (3/57), the Indians bowled out the Cricket Australia XI for 243 and thet were 99/2 at stumps on the first day of the hastily-organised tour game at Glenelg Oval.
The only real blot on the day was another poor score for Shikhar Dhawan, who fell for a golden duck just moments into the Indians' reply, though Ishant Sharma's lack of wickets does not augur well ahead of Adelaide Test on December 9.
Against a marginally stronger Cricket Australia XI than they played last week - the additions were the Tasmania trio of batsman Jordan Silk, allrounder Evan Gulbis and left-arm quick Sam Rainbird as well as Victoria allrounder Alex Keath - the Indians still put in a strong outing.
The match was purely to get them a workout before the first Test starting December 9, evident when Ashton Turner agreed to let the tourists bowl and in Virat Kohli being allowed to twice leave the field mid-session to have a bat in the adjacent nets.
Mohammed Shami picked up two wickets with the new ball, extracting Ryan Carters - nicking to second slip for 1 - and Matthew Short - driving and edging to Wriddhiman Saha for 19 - in a tidy six-over opening spell.
The other wicket was that of CA captain Ashton Turner for 0, who was bowled by Aaron when the ball deflected onto leg stump.
From 101/3 at lunch, with Silk unbeaten on 55, the CA XI slumped to 111/5 with Silk edging Aaron to Suresh Raina at second slip for the addition of three runs to his total, and Keath driving Karn Sharma to cover where Cheteshwar Pujara took a good catch.
In the second over the Indians' innings, opener Dhawan flicked his first ball faced straight to Pattison at forward square leg (1/1). Pujara played a few pleasing shots in his 22 before becoming Lalor's second wicket, caught in the slips (36/2).
But next ball the same catcher, Turner, dropped Kohli to allow the Indian captain a reprieve; Kohli slowly eased into a groove and ended not out on 30 off 56 balls. Murali Vijay used the opportunity to face plenty of deliveries, remaining on 39 from 81.
Brief scores
Cricket Australia XI - 243 (Gotch 58*, Silk 58, Aaron 4-41, Karn 3-57)
Indians - 99/2 (Vijay 39*, Kohli 30*)
Status - Indians trail by 144 runs
