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Australia have clinched an eight wicket victory at the Adelaide Oval, where Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood produced spells for ages to skittle an India shocked by their lowest test total in history.
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At one point, the Indians were eight of 26 in the pink ball event in Adelaide.
Tim Paine’s team secured a 1-0 lead in the series before the dinner break on day three of the Pink Ball Test, with a goal of 90.
The tourists were out by 36 in their second inning after Mohammed Shami retired injured, after being hit on his exposed right arm by a Cummins ball.
Opening pair Joe Burns (51 not eliminated) and Matthew Wade (33) shared a 70-run position, as Australia only needed 21 overs to complete an incredible comeback.
Shami’s injury is one of the concerns of India, whose captain Virat Kohli will soon be flying for the birth of her first child.
The visitors resumed Saturday at 1-9, leading by 62 runs.
Cummins (4-21) and Hazlewood (5-8) created utter chaos in the next 90 minutes, during which neither batter reached double figures.
Nathan Lyon would be forgiven for flashbacks to the unforgettable test collapses he was a part of in Cape Town (2011) and Trent Bridge (2015), where Australia was left with 47 and 60 respectively.
The shoe was on the other foot for the secondary player in Adelaide, where he never seemed to have a single over as Cummins and Hazlewood celebrated career-defining moments and big milestones.
Mayank Agarwal’s nine and Hanuma Vihari’s eight helped India beat New Zealand’s 26 in 1955, which is still the lowest score in 150 years of test cricket.
But Kohli suffered the ignominy of leading the XI that set the bar below the 42 scored at Lord’s in 1974, which had been India’s lowest score in nearly 550 tests.
Cummins ignited a barely credible 5-4 collapse when night watchman Jasprit Bumrah captured him back.
The express paceman had Cheteshwar Pujara go for a duck, while Kohli became his 150th spot in test cricket.
Hazlewood was on a hat-trick after eliminating Wriddhiman Saha and Ravichandran Ashwin, and turned Vihari into his 200th scalp test.
“Everything went according to plan,” Hazlewood told Fox Sports.
“The way that Patty started out was amazing. The two great fields (Pujara and Kohli) set the tone and I followed suit.”
Wade was the victim of orderly protection from Saha, while Marnus Labuschagne will curse himself after gifting Ravichandran Ashwin a window, but India’s body language during the last innings was that of a defeated team.
Burns regained his half century and winning runs, with a six when Bumrah dropped a catch and the ball went over the limit.
