If there was a hint of southern India is relentless tropical heat and humidity Brisbane, then M Vijay ensured corner of a foreign field will forever Chennai, ensuring a memorable century to establish a dominant platform for 4 to 311 at stumps on day one of the second Test at the Gabba.

He fell one hundred miss the last day in Adelaide, Vijay found the right method in a much more steepling surface, keeping the ball well while collecting runs right through the earth. He made the most of their series in the first and third sessions, waiting for the day during which Josh Hazlewood has shown its willingness to baggy green cap presented to him by Glenn Mcgrath before the game.

Ajinkya Rahane was a man who did most of the platform Vijay's. He is not sure in Adelaide, but hastily in their work with energy, which contrasts with the growing fatigue Australia.

Vijay was lucky to survive two innings pitched by Shaun Marsh, emblematic of a difficult first day of captaincy for the new leader of Australia Steven Smith. The hosts were unable to take the first land that could have alleviated his work in high temperatures and unstinting sun. Mitchell Marsh was lost to a tendon problem in his right hamstring, Mitchell Starc suffering from heat-related fatigue, and Smith was unable to hold above the type of equipment under control.

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