Poms skittled for 85 in Test v. Ireland.

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2nd innings of the 2nd Test v. India even worse than the 1st Test.
Oz lost 8/28 to crash to all out 113 (31.1).
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And even in "great" wins, Oz collapse: Oz lost 6/11 in the 1st innings of the 3rd Test.

Brettig:

'... the dizzying loss of 6-11 to end the innings and let India back into the game.

It was reverse swing delivered by the powerful Umesh Yadav that had as much say as the spin of Ravichandran Ashwin in Australia’s hectic loss of morning wickets, including a pair of away fading rockets to take out the off stumps of Mitchell Starc and Todd Murphy.'

(The Age)

"From No. 8 onwards, India's have scored 307 runs at 25.58 in the series compared to Australia's 84 and 4.94."

(cricinfo)

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"Their tail's batting average of 4.94 (per batter, per innings) would need to lift above 5.28 during the final Test in Ahmedabad to avoid becoming the least productive batting series (of at least three Tests) by an Australian lower-order. The record low was set during the 1912 Ashes.

Pat Cummins is the only Australian bowler to have scored more than 10 in an innings with his 33 during the second Test in Delhi.
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It is not an uncommon problem for teams visiting India in recent years.

Of the last six Test sides to tour the country, only South Africa's tail have averaged more than 11 (in 2019, managing 20.89 per lower-order batter).

But the manner of Australia's collapses have been especially alarming. In Nagpur, they lost their last five first-innings wickets for 15 runs. In Delhi, they lost their last eight second-innings wickets for 28. In Indore, they lost their last six first-innings wickets for 11."

(cricket.com.au)

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They must be safe from that record now!

Thanks to the dead pitch. But good job, anyway, 'cos only Khawaja and Green did the job above them.

Nathan Lyon 34 (96)
Todd Murphy 41 (61)
9th-wicket partnership of 70

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W. Swanton:

"The Indians were dismissed for a humiliating 46 against New Zealand last week. On latest evidence in the Sheffield Shield, 46 might be more than enough against Australia."

(The Australian)

Kapow!!

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Atherton:

'Welcome to my world, Rohit. ...

Earlier this year marked the 30th anniversary of my team's 46 all out in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
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The Trinidad collapse stayed in the mind partly, one suspects, because of the drama, but also because it was such a rare occurrence.
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Indeed, as Gideon Haigh pointed out ..., five of the game's lowest scores have come since 2010. To dig into the numbers more deeply: since 2000 there have been eight scores of below 50 in Test cricket, in 1075 matches; an occurrence, by my reckoning, of once every 134 Tests. Between the end of World War II and the beginning of the 2000s, there had been only five such occasions, a frequency of once every 241 Tests. Why so?
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What has changed, as Haigh also notes, is the general approach to batting. Although there are occasional exceptions, attack is now seen as the best - indeed, the only - form of defence. ...

A tough pitch will be assessed, as it was in Multan, as "there is bound to be a ball with your name on it", and therefore best to try to score as many runs a s possible, as quickly as possible, before it arrives. ...

Added to that is the psychological shift, post the prevalence of short-form cricket, of a wicket losing its value. The shorter the game, the fewer the consequences for getting out...'

(The Times)