Bowling at the MCG on Thursday, the right-armer quickly dismissed India’s new Test team entrant Abhimanyu Easwaran and Sai Sudharsan in the first over of the match.

Neser went on to get hold of India A captain Ruturaj Gaikwad as well as Devdutt Padikkal as the visitors bundled out for 161.

Australia, who are yet to name their squad for the five-Test series starting later this month, would hope for the pacer’s speedy recovery ahead of the big ICC World Test Championship series against India.