Aus vs Ind: List of India's lowest innings score in Test cricket

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.

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.

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

No batsman reaching double figures in an innings

SA v Eng Edgbaston 1924

30 all out; Highest 7 by Herbie Taylor (extras 11)

Ind v Aus Adelaide 2020

36 all out; Highest 9 by Mayank Agarwal

Lowest totals for India (Tests)

• 36 vs Aus Adelaide 2020 *
• 42 vs Eng Lord's 1974
• 58 vs Aus Brisbane 1947
• 58 vs Eng Manchester 1952
• 66 vs SA Durban 1996
• 67 vs Aus Melbourne 1948

Fewest Tests to 150 wickets by pacers:

• 27 Waqar Younis
• 29 I Botham/ D Steyn
• 31 D Lillee/ K Rabada/ P Cummins
• 33 A Roberts/ A Donald

Lowest scores for India at the fall of sixth wicket:

• 19/6 vs Aus Adelaide 2020 *
• 25/6 vs SA Durban 1996
• 27/6 vs NZ Hyderabad 1969
• 28/6 vs Eng Lord's 1974

Lowest scores for India at the fall of 5th wicket:

• 6/5 vs Eng Oval 1952
• 15/5 vs NZ Ahmedabad 2010
• 15/5 vs Aus Adelaide 2020 *
• 17/5 vs Eng Manchester 1952