Australia's World Cup opener against India was played on a difficult turning surface at Chepauk on Sunday. Steven Smith has indicated that his dismissal, which caused a collapse, prevented Australia from posting a competitive score.

Smith was Australia's leading scorer with 46 runs off of 71 balls when he was out caught stealing by Ravindra Jadeja at short leg. After being 110 for 2 after 27 overs, Australia were all out for 199 after 49.3 overs.

"Yeah, perhaps (my dismissal was the turning point). I mean you never want to get out. We were trying to take it a little bit deeper, and it was obviously very challenging on this pitch. And it was going to be challenging for the guy coming in...We were just trying to take it a little bit deeper and unfortunately felt like I got a pretty good ball from Jadeja. Felt like I was back playing Test cricket. But to lose those wickets in a row probably cost us getting up to around 250,” Smith said.

Smith believed that he had found a nice rhythm with the bat up to the point that Jadeja threw him off balance. "I thought I was playing quite nicely. It wasn't a wicket where you can just go out and muscle it and have a high strike rate I suppose. We had to work our way through that scenario, and it was challenging. Felt like I was moving into the ball nicely and played a few nice drives off the fast bowlers and was working spin around. So, I felt good and unfortunately couldn't go on to make a bigger one,” Smith added.