Bollinger had figures of 5-35 and Johnson snared 3-39 to give Australia an opportunity to clinch the seven-match series.

Leading 3-2 after five games, Australia benefited from Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni's decision to bat first after winning the toss in the northeastern city of Gauhati, where matches start early to avoid poor visibility toward the end of the game.

India got off to a torrid start, losing the wickets of opener Virender Sehwag (4) and Gautam Gambhir (0) in the first over of the day.

Johnson, who returns to the team after being left out of the last match, beat Sehwag with an inswinger to shatter his stumps with his fourth delivery, then knocked out Gambhir's off-stump two balls later.

India suffered another setback when Bollinger capitalized on his quick reflexes to snap a return catch to dismiss Sachin Tendulkar for 10.

Yuvraj Singh (6) was bowled by Bollinger when the ball bounced off his pads to strike the stumps even as the batsmen tried to knock it away.

Suresh Raina became Johnson's third victim by lobbing the ball into the hands of Nathan Hauritz at short mid-on.

Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja featured in a cautious 48-run stand for the sixth wicket.

Dhoni hit just one boundary off 77 deliveries to reach 24 before being trapped lbw by Bollinger, who bowled Harbhajan Singh for a duck two balls later to reduce India to 75-7.

Jadeja continued to defy the dominant Australian attack, top-scoring with a 103-ball 57 and putting on 74 runs for the eighth wicket with Praveen Kumar, who scored an unbeaten 54 off 51 deliveries.

Jadeja became Bollinger's fifth victim when he pulled the ball straight to Cameron White at mid-wicket. His watchful knock included six boundaries.

Kumar went on to post his maiden half-century, lofting paceman Clint McKay for a straight six and struck seven boundaries to bolster the Indian score before running out of partners as Ashish Nehra (4) and Munaf Patel (0) fell in the space of three deliveries from pace bowler Shane Watson (2-27).