Australia has galloped to victory by eight wickets in the first Test after producing an astonishing display of fast bowling to knock over India for a woeful 36 — its lowest ever score in a Test innings and the fourth lowest of all time.
Not one Indian batsman reached double figures in a humiliating, 21.2-over innings that will surely leave mental scars ahead of the rest of the series, in which Australia now has a 1-0 lead.
Although as pitiful as the Indian card looks, India's batsmen did little wrong on day three in Adelaide in the face of what Josh Hazlewood (5-8) described as the best spell of bowling of his career as he notched his eighth five-for in Test cricket.
Any frailties in the Indian line up were brutally exposed by some precision fast bowling from the trio of Hazlewood, Pat Cummins (4-21) and Mitchell Starc (0-7).
Australia's success came as a result of bowling a fuller length on a pitch that played harder and faster than on the previous two days.
All three Aussie quicks relentlessly targeted the top of off stump, forcing the Indians to fend and protect against a ball that was moving laterally and climbing precipitously off the third-day deck.
After night watchman Jasprit Bumrah (2) was dismissed in the second over of the day, spooning a catch back to Cummins, the floodgates opened.
Cummins landed the big breakthrough the very next over when Cheteshwar Pujara (0) feathered one behind to Tim Paine for an eight-ball duck.
Paine took five catches overall, including two in the very next Hazlewood over as Mayank Agarwal (9) and Ajinka Rahane (0) both followed Pujara into the sheds without adding a run in a double-wicket maiden.
With India's hopes of a first Test victory tumbling around him, Virat Kohli (4) abandoned his first-innings strategy of restraint and attacked.
He flashed one ball from Cummins past gully for four to get off the mark, but when he attempted to repeat the trick next up he fired it straight to Cameron Green.
Green juggled and bobbled the ball on his way to the ground, but the video showed no evidence that he had grassed the ball and Kohli had to depart.
Those first five wickets of the day fell in just 35 balls — for the addition of just 10 runs.
With his tail up, Hazlewood raced towards his five-for with another double wicket maiden by dismissing Wriddhiman Saha (4) and Ravichandran Ashwin (0) in successive balls, before claiming Hanuma Vihari (8) in his next over.
Things could not get much worse for India, but Cummins helped make sure this was a day to forget by forcing Mohammed Shami to retire hurt after slamming a rising delivery into his forearm, leaving India a bowler short for Australia's chase.
With Australia's opening pair coming off a poor first innings, it would have caused a few jitters if they had gone early, even with just 90 runs to chase.
But Matthew Wade (33 from 53) showed he wasn't going to take a cautious approach to the chase, and while Joe Burns did have a nervous start, he soon found his comfort zone and the runs were gobbled up quickly.
The only hitches were a bizarre run-out for Wade and a skied shot by Marnus Labuschagne (6).
Burns hooked for six to secure the win and snatch an unbeaten half century.
The Australians secured the win before supper on day three, to take a firm grip on the four-match series after India had started an incredible day's play as the firm favourites to win this Test.
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