Aussies 'embarrassed' in record defeat in India

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By Emily Patterson and Damien McCartney

Australia has been bowled retired for its lowest-ever people successful India to capitulate to an innings and 132-run nonaccomplishment connected time 3 of the archetypal Test against India.

Ten wickets fell successful a league arsenic Australia was rolled for 91 runs - the nation's lowest-ever people successful India and second-lowest full against India astatine immoderate venue.

Bowing allrounder Ravichandran Ashwin was chiefly liable for the carnage successful Australia's 2nd innings, taking 5 wickets.

AS IT HAPPENED: India v Australia, archetypal Test

The disastrous innings came aft Australia yet bowled retired India for 400.

Todd Murphy claimed his sixth and seventh wickets connected debut - dismissing Ravindra Jadeja for 70 and Mohammed Shami for 37.

The 22-year-old present has the sixth-best figures of immoderate Australian connected debut. This is the champion debut show since Jason Krejza successful 2008 - besides successful Nagpur.

Finally, Axar Patel was dismissed - bowled trying to loop Pat Cummins retired of the park.

Requiring 223 runs conscionable to unit India backmost to the crease, the likelihood were ever going to beryllium stacked against the Aussies. But nary 1 could foretell the severity of the spiral.

Despite Australia's batters struggling, the batting of the Indian process proved the transportation was not the contented and that runs could beryllium found.

The archetypal to spell was Usman Khawaja for 5 runs - Ashwin taking the caller shot and striking successful his archetypal over.

The shot bounced viciously erstwhile it took the edge, and Virat Kohli astatine archetypal gaffe made nary mistake.

"Ashwin threw it up into the rough, a small slower, a small wider, and Khawaja couldn't defy going for the drive," Mark Waugh said successful commentary.

"It's a spot of a escaped shot, Kohli doesn't marque immoderate mistakes."

Some fortunate calls fell the mode of Marnus Labuschagne and David Warner but Labuschagne was soon trapped lbw disconnected Jadeja for 17.

The shot straightened and missed Labuschagne's extracurricular edge, alternatively striking him connected the backmost foot. Replays showed the shot hitting mediate stump halfway up.

Next, Ashwin's shot missed Warner's wrong edge, clipping limb stump arsenic the seasoned was dismissed for 10.

Then, Matt Renshaw was fixed retired - bowled lbw by Ashwin for two.

"What a show from India - the mode they batted and present the mode they're bowling," Ravi Shastri said successful commentary.

Peter Handscomb was Ashwin's adjacent victim.

Initially fixed not retired - the commentators suggested the umpire mightiness person thought it was going over. However, the Indians challenged the decision, and erstwhile again it was 3 reddish lights for the Aussies.

As if the showing wasn't hard capable to watch, Alex Carey attempted to reverse expanse Ashwin - paying the price.

It was the 2nd clip this lucifer Carey had been dismissed reverse sweeping, having been bowled successful the archetypal innings trying to play the shot.

Pat Cummins lasted 13 balls earlier helium was retired caught down disconnected the bowling of Jadeja for one.

Cummins lunged forward, getting a tickle done to Srikar Bharat down the stumps who snatched a large catch.

Murphy past chipped a transportation from Patel to abbreviated limb - allowing skipper Rohit Sharma to instrumentality a elemental catch.

Nathan Lyon became the archetypal to beryllium dismissed by an Indian bowler that is not a spinner, cleanable bowled by Mohammed Shami.

Requiring 1 much wicket, Steve Smith was cleanable bowled by Jadeja.

The Indians were celebrating, but the determination was short-lived arsenic the 3rd umpire had a look astatine the transportation and judged it to beryllium a no-ball.

Finally, Scott Boland was the past Aussie to autumn - bowled lbw from Shami for a duck.

Smith finished not retired with 25 runs from 51 balls.

Jadeja was named subordinate of the lucifer for his seven-wicket full and 70 runs successful the archetypal innings.

"I'm a spot shell-shocked, to beryllium rather honest," Allan Border said connected the Fox Cricket broadcast.

"Hopefully our players are precise embarrassed by that performance. It's conscionable mediocre each round."

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