Cricket: India 132-1, rain brings early stumps on Day 1

India were comfortably placed at 132 for one when rain brought an early end to the opening day's play in the pink-ball Test against Australia here on Thursday.

Smriti Mandhana was batting on a sublime 80 and Punam Raut was unbeaten on 16 when stumps were called on the first day.

India were 101 for 1 at the dinner break on the opening day of their one-off Day/Night Test, after which lightning delayed the start of play for a while.


Brief Scores: India 1st Innings: 132/1 in 44.1 overs (Smriti Mandhana 80 not out, Shafali Verma 31; Sophie Molineux 1/18) vs Australia.