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India advanced 36 – its lowest score in history and the lowest seen in the format since 1955 – when Australia won the first game of the series in Adelaide; Josh Hazlewood leads 5-8 and Pat Cummins 4-21 before the hosts clinch eight-wicket victory
Last Updated: 12/19/20 8:33 am
Virat Kohli was out for four when his team sank in Adelaide
India was beaten by 36 – its lowest test score – during an impressive pace of the game when Australia jumped to an eight-wicket victory within three days of the Pink Ball Test in Adelaide.
India, which resumed the third day at 9-1 with a 62 lead, lost eight wickets for 27 runs before Mohammed Shami injured his arm while facing Pat Cummins and had to retire injured.
Josh Hazlewood took 5-8 of five overs, while Cummins caught 4-21 from 10.2 while tourist innings lasted only 21.2 overs – starter Mayank Agarwal scored the leading scorer with a paltry nine as India disintegrated.
Virat Kohli’s meager team total was the fifth-lowest total in Test history and the lowest seen in the format since 1955 when New Zealand was eliminated by just 26 by England in Auckland.
Hazlewood passed 200 test windows during an impressive fast bowling spell
Australia reached their goal of 90 in 21 overs with the loss of just Matthew Wade (33) and Marnus Labuschagne (6), with starter Joe Burns (51st) crushing Umesh Yadav down the stretch with six match wins.
The home team advanced 1-0 in the four-game series, which has continued in Melbourne since Boxing Day, with Hazlewood and Cummins the architects of the victory.
Cummins started the wicket procession when he caught night watchman Jasprit Bumrah (2) in his own bowling alley in the second over of the day and then followed with Cheteshwar Pujara (0) trapped behind in the sixth.
India had slumped from 15-1 to 15-5 when Hazlewood began his spell with a double wicket maiden, the high pacemaker forcing Agarwal and Ajinkya Rahane (0) to dodge goalkeeper Tim Paine.
Josh Hazlewood took just 25 deliveries to complete his five-lot tour
Cummins then had Kohli (4) caught by a juggler Cameron Green in a ravine at the next junction after the captain of India, who is flying home after this ordeal to be with his pregnant wife and will miss the last three games in the series, he tried a drive cover.
Four overs passed without another wicket, only for Hazlewood to then attack in successive deliveries as Wriddhiman Saha (4) went for the midwicket and Ravichandran Ashwin (0) skirted his first ball back.
Ashwin’s wicket was Hazlewood’s 200th scalp in test cricket and he pulled off that 201 run and five wickets the day Hanuma Vihari (8) was caught behind a couple of overs later.
India was 31-9 at the time and after Shami singled and Umesh (4th) outscored Hazlewood by four, the visitors’ lousy innings came to an end when Shami retired after being hit by a goalkeeper. from Cummins.
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