India's batting collapse in Adelaide, a look at the lowest test scores and more

India's batting lineup collapse in the second innings to 36/9 of the first day-night test match in Adelaide of the three match series left Australia with an easy 90-run target to win on Saturday.

The incident took everyone by surprise. None of the Indian batsmen could reach double figure in the second innings. The Indian innings ended when pacer Mohammed Shami got injured from a short ball of Pat Cummins and could not continue.

Australia got to the target with the loss of two wickets with Joe Burns helping himself to a half century, reports Scroll.

India's second innings at Adelaide:

1......3.2.1......W..........2.........4..2....W...................W....W...W...4W..........2.....1..2..2......WW..4..1.W.1.4...

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India's earlier lowest score was 42 at the Lord's in 1974 against England. That innings has come to be known in Indian cricket parlance as the "Summer of 42". The likes of Sunil Gavaskar and the late Ajit Wadekar had long carried the baggage of that English Summer, inarguably one of the worst in the annals of Indian cricket. It will now be replaced by the "Summer of 36" and the 2020 version is going to be hard to beat when it comes to India's worst batting performances.

India's lowest totals in Test cricket

completed innings (* denotes 8-ball overs)

At one stage, India were reduced to 26/8 and looked like they might equal the lowest ever Test score (26 by New Zealand) but Hanuma Vihari's boundary helped them avoid that ignominy.

The Indian batting was completely exposed by the extra bounce Australia's pacers found on the day. But it wasn't just that. The line and the length were immaculate as well and Kohli and his team will have a hard time figuring out where they went wrong.

Not a single Indian batsman was able to reach double figures as the home pacers, led by Josh Hazlewood (5-3-8-5) and Pat Cummins (10.2-4-21-4), decimated the tourists with some classy seam bowling.

It is not only India's lowest total ever in Tests, but also the lowest by any team in 65 years.

Lowest Innings total in Test cricket

This was also only the second instance of all 11 batsmen of a side failing to reach the double figures in the history of Test cricket. Mayank Agarwal with nine was the top-scorer in a scoreboard that isn't one Indian fans will like to look at.

The only other previous instance of such a complete demolition when England dismissed South Africa for 30 in 1924 with the top-scoring batsman being Herbie Taylor (7). The top-scorer, though, was Extras with 11 in that innings.

Also, this was the first time since 1955 where all ten partnerships are in single digits.

As far as coincidences go:

To finish on a slightly irrelevant note, Rahul Dravid managed a total of 305 runs (233, 72) by himself in the two innings combined during India's famous win at this very venue in 2003. India managed have managed to score fewer than that (244, 36) in 2020.

With inputs from PTI | Statistics courtesy ESPNCricinfo