Adelaide : The Indian cricket team under Virat Kohli faced its worst hour of embarrassment while collapsing to its lowest Test score of 36 as a rampaging Australia cruised to an emphatic eight-wicket victory inside two and half days in the opening Day/Night Test here on Saturday.
There were no demons in the pitch but Josh Hazlewood (5-3-8-5) and Patrick Cummins (10.2-4-21-4) displayed fast bowling of highest quality, the impact of which will be far-reaching with three more Tests to go.
India’s earlier lowest score was 42 at the Lord’s in 1974 against England, known in Indian cricket parlance as the “Summer of 42”. Saturday’s total was also the lowest score in the brief history of D/N Tests and the joint fifth lowest overall.
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Adelaide: In an embarrassing turn of events, India were restricted to their lowest ever total in Test cricket, collapsing to 36/9 in the terminated second innings, leaving Australia with just a 90-run target on the third day of the first Day/Night Test here Saturday.
Chasing the easy goal, Australia reached 15 for no loss at dinner break and are expected to complete formalities into the second session.
To make matters worse for India, star pacer Mohammed Shami’s series could well be over due to a wrist injury from a short ball from Pat Cummins, which could potentially be a fracture. Shami could not continue and the Indian innings was terminated at 36 for 9 in 21.2 overs.
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Updated: December 19, 2020 11:07 pm IST
To be clear, no one died. It wasn t a day-darkening, world-ending event.even if I did want to stab the screen with a breakfast fork when Captain Kohli sliced his drive to slip. A total of 36 is a cricketing shocker, but in the larger scheme of things, it is rather less important than your second cousin twice removed coming down with Covid. Pandemics bring perspective.
Technology being what it was in 1974, I heard rather than saw India fold up for 42, the previous lowest score, on the radio. The Summer of 42 is what college wits called it, after a mildly titillating movie of the same name released a couple of years earlier. Unlike Virat Kohli s men, one of those vintage losers managed the distinction of double figures: Eknath Solkar made eighteen. He even hit a six. Then, as now, we didn t lose all ten wickets because our No. 11 was injured.
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India vs Australia today: For captain Virat Kohli, the Adelaide Test is ending up as a total disaster. The team went from bad to worse and in fact relogged a horrific record. In an embarrassing turn of events, India were restricted to their lowest ever total in Test cricket, collapsing to 36/9 in the terminated second innings, leaving Australia with just a 90-run target on the third day of the first Day/Night Test here on Saturday.
Chasing the easy goal, Australia reached 15 for no loss at dinner break and are expected to complete formalities into the second session.
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