Starc, Marsh...

with the bat, it was Starc who set up the win with a blistering display.

The left-armer started the destruction in the opening over by tempting Shubman Gill (0) into a loose shot, with Marnus Labuschagne gobbling up the catch at backward point.

Smith gave Starc his second wicket with a juggling effort at slip to dismiss Rohit Sharma for 13.

And when Suryakumar Yadav was dismissed lbw by Starc for a golden duck for the second straight match, the Australian pace ace was on a hat-trick.

KL Rahul blocked out the hat-trick ball but was trapped in front by Starc a short time later, reducing India to 4-48.

Smith’s stunner at slip – off the bowling of Sean Abbott – made it 5-49, and Nathan Ellis snared the prized scalps of Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja (16) as India crashed to 7-91 in the 20th over.

Starc was struck for consecutive sixes by Axar Patel when he returned for another spell but finished the innings by bowling Mohammed Siraj.

Only Waqar Younis (13) and Muttiah Muralitharan (10) have more five-wicket hauls in ODI cricket than Starc’s nine

“We saw a clinic there from Mitch today, as we’ve seen before,” Abbott said of Starc’s heroics.

Abbott (3-23) and Nathan Ellis (2-13) produced handy cameos.

Virat Kohli (31) top scored for his side, with Patel (29no) the only other batter to put up any fight.

It was India’s third-lowest ODI total against Australia, behind their 63 at the SCG in 1981, and 100 also in Sydney in 2000.

It was also India’s fourth lowest total in ODIs in India against all nations.(AAP).