Indian weapon Yashasvi Jaiswal flicked ball into the Australian huddle during his warm-up, and then was dismissed after playing an eerily similar shot off the bowling of Mitchell Starc.

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Vision before the visitor’s innings showed the 22-year-old receiving throw downs as the Australian outfit waited behind the boundary line, preparing to take the field.

The Indian coach threw one at his legs, with Jaiswal belting the ball and grimacing before it sizzled into the legs of a Cricket Australia cameraman, with the hosts throwing their hands up in disbelief.

“That’s one way of getting ahead of the game… he’s just trying to take out Mitchell Starc before the game starts,” Michael Vaughan said.

Fast forward two deliveries, and Jaiswal received another ball on his legs.

This time he flicked it in the air, playing the same shot he did during warm up unsuccessfully as the ball found mid-wicket fielder Mitchell Marsh with laser precision.

“Can you imagine the catch would be there? The man just in front of square, acres of space on the on side and Jaiswal hits it straight to the fielder,” Ravi Shastri said.

The first ball of the innings caught Jaiswal’s edge, and cricketing icon Kerry O’Keeffe was of the belief that delivery lured Jaiswal into a false sense of security.

“Everything pointed to an off-side assault, Starc has decided I will bowl one on leg with this man perfectly placed at short mid-wicket,” he said.

“They are joyous, the tactics have worked and the danger man is gone… the first Indian wicket down the second ball of the innings.

“The strategic guy in charge of the bowling unit has got that dead right, that’s why they were so happy.”

Meanwhile, English Test legend Vaughan compared the two shots — which he believed had one crucial different between practice and being out in the middle.

“Five minutes before Jaiswal got out, this is the shot he practiced that whip through mid-wicket, wonderful shot and good balance,” he said.

“And then you go into the match and it’s the same shot but he goes aerial, just flicks it. It was the pressure of the game, in practice it’s perfect.”