The left-arm pacer dismissed Suryakumar Yadav for a golden duck on the very next delivery, trapping him in front of the stumps for the second consecutive time. The right-hand batter had lasted for one ball in the first ODI in Mumbai as well.
KL Rahul, India’s star of the last match, was Starc’s fourth victim. The Karnataka star was also caught in front of the stumps on another searing delivery from the New South Wales pacer. Even before India could recover from the blow, vice-captain Hardik Pandya departed in the next over courtesy a superhuman catch from Steve Smith in slip.
For the entire duration Virat Kohli kept on watching the batters come and go from one end. With India five down for 49 in five overs. Ravindra Jadeja and Kohli partnered for 22 runs before Nathan Ellis struck for the first time. Kohli missed a straight delivery while trying to whip it square and was adjudged lbw out by umpire Nitin Menon. Jadeja also fell to the same bowler in the 20th over. Extra bounce generated an edge off Jadeja’s bat which landed straight into the gloves of Alex Carey. India lost their eighth and ninth wicket in the 25th over as Sean Abbott struck twice to dismiss Mohammed Shami (0 off 1) and Kuldeep Yadav (4 off 17).
Stranded on one end, in-form Axar cut himself loose in the 25th over to hit two sixes off the first two deliveries from Starc. The southpaw took a single on the fourth delivery but Mohammed Siraj (0 off 3) could not survive the two balls and was castled by the Starc who completed his ninth five-wicket haul in ODIs.
The score is the lowest by India in an ODI match against Australia at home. The visitors had bowled out India for 148 in Vadodara in 2007. India’s lowest ODI total at home is 78 against Sri Lanka in Kanpur in 1986.
Let’s have a look at 10 of India’s lowest ODI totals
78 vs Sri Lanka in Kanpur, 1986
79 vs Pakistan in Sialkot, 1978
88 vs New Zealand in Dambulla, 2010
91 vs South Africa in Durban, 2006
92 vs New Zealand in Hamilton, 2019
100 vs Australia in Sydney, 2010
100 vs West Indies in Ahmedabad, 1993
103 vs Sri Lanka in Dambulla, 2010
103 vs Sri Lanka in Colombo, 2008
105 vs Bangladesh in Mirpur, 2014
5 of India’s lowest ODI totals at home
78 vs Sri Lanka in Kanpur, 1986
100 vs West Indies in Ahmedabad, 1993
112 vs Sri Lanka in Dharamsala, 2017
117 vs Australia in Visakhapatnam, 2023
135 vs Pakistan in Jaipur, 1999
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