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Kohli's year without a century, first in 12 years
Kohli will return from Australia with four scores of fifty in seven international matches and eight innings on the tour of Australia. His debut year, 2008, when he was picked to the national side after leading India under-19 team to a World Cup title, was the last time he went a calendar year without a century.
Kohli loses 3 successive Tests for the first time as captain
Kohli, who took over as regular skipper of the Indian team in 2015 in Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground, had led India in a 2-0 defeat in the two-Test series in New Zealand this year prior to the Covid-19 pandemic in February-March. They lost the first Test at Wellington by 10 wickets and the second at Christchurch by seven wickets against Kane Williamson's boys. They lost the Adelaide game on by eight wickets Saturday to complete a hat-trick of losses.
Not fair to blame India's batsmen: Sunil Gavaskar
India were dismissed for 36, their lowest total in Test history. Their previous lowest was 42 at Lord's in England, back in 1974. The former India captain was part of the India team that was shot out for 42 by England at Lord's over 46 years ago.
'Hard to put the disappointment into words': Kohli on Team India's disastrous performance
Kohli will leave for India after this game to attend the birth of his first child. He, however, expressed confidence that the rest of the boys will perform well to make a comeback in the series.
Adelaide Test: Australia beat India by 8 wickets after shooting Kohli's boys out for 36
pace bowlers Pat Cummins (4/21) and Josh Hazlewood (5/8) caused a carnage to skittle out India for 36, their lowest Test total, Australia reached the target of 90 for the loss of just two wickets.
Australia on track to win 1st Test after restricting India to 36
Pat Cummins took four for 21 in 10.2 overs while Josh Hazlewood took five for eight in five overs to shared the nine wickets as India innings ended at 36/9, their lowest-ever innings total in their 82-year Test cricket history.
Mayank Agarwal third fastest Indian to 1,000 runs
The right-handed opening batsman, playing just his 12th Test, is behind Vinod Kambli who took 14 innings in 12 Test matches, and current team-mate Cheteshwar Pujara who took 18 innings in 11 matches.
India rise to 53rd on FIFA women's football rankings
India gained from Belarus's fall to 56 from 53, which is the biggest drop by ranks. India are tied with South Africa for the spot ahead of Venezuela who rose to 55.
Am different from Lyon, my job abroad is to support pacers: R Ashwin
While Lyon is the conventional type, Ashwin tries to mix things up. "For me... it is not so much about the trajectory. It is about trying and changing it up and making it difficult for the batsman to defend and score at the same time." The India bowler said that his job overseas is to hold one end up and give support to pace bowlers.
Adelaide Test: Ravichandran Ashwin helps India take first innings lead on Day 2
Ashwin had got the prized wicket of Steve Smith for just one in the second session as India wrested the initiative early. The off-break bowler followed it up with the wickets of Travis Head, Cameron Green and Nathan Lyon.
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