India hope Pune rout acts as wake-up call

Cricket - India team practice session - Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune, India - 22/02/17. India's captain Virat Kohli throws a ball during a practice session ahead of their first test cricket match. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

PUNE, India (Reuters) - India will be hoping that by the end of March their Pune capitulation can be viewed from the lofty heights of a seventh consecutive test series triumph as an aberration that acted as a brutal wake up call to the world's number one side.

The shell-shocked hosts have a week to regroup before they again engage an Australian touring party which made Virat Kohli and his team of world-beaters look quite ordinary in a 333-run first test rout inside three days.