Sydney, Oct. 25 -- Australian captain Mitchell Marsh has hailed Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli for their unbeaten 168-run partnership and said that the hosts needed a partnership towards the back end and could not capitalise on a good platform, having been only three wickets down for 183 runs.

Pacer Harshit Rana (4/39) gave a critic-silencing performance with assists from spinners as Aussies tumbled from 183/3 to 236 all out.

During the run-chase, Indian batting superstars Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, on their likely last tour to Australia, had a memorable partnership with the 'Hitman' scoring a century and Virat scoring a return-to-form fifty after two successive ducks.

"We have seen Rohit and Virat do that over 10 years against lots o...