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Leg-spinner Anil Kumble cut through the Australian batting line-up in Madras as India seized the initiative on day one of the second Test.

The tourists were dismissed for 235 after losing their last eight wickets for 46, with Kumble returning 7-48.

But it was Harbhajan Singh who sparked the home revival with the wickets of Justin Langer (71) and Matthew Hayden (58) after a 136-run opening stand.

India reached 28-1 in reply with Shane Warne equalling the Test wicket record.

The Aussie leg-spinner's removal of Yuvraj Singh took him to 532 victims, the same total as injured Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan.

A minute's silence in honour of the late Keith Miller was observed at the start of the day, and after winning the toss Australia's first wicket did his memory proud with 111 unbroken runs in the first session.

There was little help for seamers on a bone-dry pitch, but Irfan Pathan and Zaheer Khan did themselves no favours with indifferent opening spells.

Openers Langer and Hayden got Australia off to a good start

Off-spinner Harbhajan was introduced after just nine overs, and Zaheer was soon banished to the outfield by Hayden's three off-driven boundaries in one over.

The openers both passed fifty in the same Kumble over, Hayden doing so in style with a second six of the morning over long-on.

It was not a chanceless start for Australia - Langer twice survived edges that fell to safety - but by lunch the pair were celebrating a 12th century stand together in Tests.

A 40-year record for Australia's highest first-wicket stand in India - set at 115 by Bill Lawry and Bobby Simpson in Calcutta - fell by the wayside just after the interval.

But Australia's hard-earned supremacy was dismantled in the space of three Harbhajan deliveries.

Hayden attempted another big shot only to find VVS Laxman lurking at long-off, and Langer fell victim to a good catch by Rahul Dravid low-down in slip.

The double strike put a spring in India's step, but Simon Katich and Damien Martyn curbed their enthusiasm with a third-wicket stand that exceeded 50 just before tea.

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Kumble's removal of Martyn just before the interval - one of four bat-pad dismissals - marked the beginning of the end for Australia.

The leg-spinner stole the show in the early part of the evening session, mesmerizing Australia's batsmen with a return of 7-28 in 10 overs.

A remarkable feature of Australia's collapse was three batsmen walking before waiting for the umpire's verdict.

Adam Gilchrist, Jason Gillespie and Michael Kasprowicz all did the honourable thing when edging to bat-pad fielders.

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And the latter's self-eviction came as a surprise to umpire David Shepherd, who had turned Kumble's appeal down.

Katich, who was dropped by Yuvraj on 21, was left stranded on 36 when last man Glenn McGrath was run out.

The dismissal denied Kumble the chance to set a new bowling benchmark at the ground, but it still stands as the fifth best and also took him past West Indian Curtly Ambrose on the all-time Test wicket-takers's list.

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Yuvraj, opening in place of the discarded Aakash Chopra, was given a life when Michael Clarke let McGrath down at second slip in the first over of India's reply.

It was not a costly mistake, with Yuvraj bottom-edging Warne behind in the last over before stumps.

But with the day belonging to Kumble, India are already in a strong position to level this four-Test series.

India: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid, V.V.S. Laxman, Mohammad Kaif, Parthiv Patel, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan.

Australia: Adam Gilchrist (captain), Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden, Simon Katich, Damien Martyn, Darren Lehmann, Michael Clarke, Shane Warne, Jason Gillespie, Michael Kasprowicz, Glenn McGrath.