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India vs Australia | Twitter reacts as India slump to worst home Test performance in 40 years

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India's batsmen seem intent on proving that the Pune Test was no aberration as they slumped to their third consecutive below-200 score, something unseen in the past 40 years. Nathan Lyon did an O'Keefe and ran through the Indian order taking 8 wickets to eclipse records even Shane Warne has not.

Brief scores: India 189/10 (KL Rahul 90; Nathan Lyon 8/50) lead Australia 40/0 (Warner 23) by 149 runs

Virat Kohli had promised Indian fans that we would not see a repeat of the Pune performance from the team. But the hosts capitulated for a third consecutive time, today to a <200 score, the first time India have done so on home soil in the past 40 years. This time it was Nathan Lyon who took up the task of dismantling India as he extracted unnerving bounce to send the batsmen one after the other back to the pavilion. Australia then batted out the day to end at 40 for no loss suddenly making the pitch look much less scary than it had looked until then.

True that!

Young Kohli!

Nostalgia? Not much.

On a Saturday!

Ohh, the insult!

When you do something even Shane Warne could not..

Come back from retirement!

And the world still believes in experts? Expert exhibit 1

Expert exhibit 2

Inky, pinky.

Agree, Sir!

Except Silk Board of course

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