Adelaide: Virat Kohli-led Team India on Saturday suffered their biggest embarrassment after collapsing to their lowest ever score of 36 in Test cricket as a rampage Australian side registered a thumping eight-wicket win in two and half days in the tournament's first match.
India managed to avoid the embarrassment from going into the darkest pages of history with the lowest ever score. Nine runs from a struggling Mayank Agarwal and Hanuma Vihari's 8 meant, the team trudged past 26 runs -- their lowest in the history of 150 years of Test cricket.
Meanwhile, New Zealand had registered the lowest score of 26 runs in international cricket in 1955.
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The only silver lining from the innings? A huge burden has been lifted off the shoulders of Sunil Gavaskar who was part of Ajit Wadekar-led side that scored India's previous lowest total of 42 runs.
The country which has so far performed exceptionally on flat strips, they have unable to put on the same show in muggy weather, swinging and seaming conditions in front of fast bowlers that bowled in excess of 140 km/hr.
Here is the list of India's lowest scores:
Lowest totals in Test cricket
- 26 NZ v Eng Auckland 1955
- 30 SA v Eng Port Elizabeth 1896
- 30 SA v Eng Edgbaston 1924
- 35 SA v Eng Cape Town 1899
- 36 Aus v Eng Edgbaston 1902
- 36 SA v Aus Melbourne 1932
- 36 Ind v Aus Adelaide 2020 *
- 38 Ire v Eng Lord's 2019