India vs Australia | Twitter reacts as India slump to worst home Test performance in 40 years
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!
Kohli's judgment of leaving the balls is poorer than high court's judgment of leaving Salman Khan. #IndvAus
— Rofl Gandhi हिंदू (@RoflGandhi_) March 4, 2017
Young Kohli!
WHO IS POLLUTING KOHLI'S MIND? 😣 #INDvsAUS
— Rofl Gandhi हिंदू (@RoflGandhi_) March 4, 2017
Nostalgia? Not much.
Indian Cricket returns to golden era after a brief halt. #INDvsAUS
— Rofl Gandhi हिंदू (@RoflGandhi_) March 4, 2017
Just come out of a long session of #TheWinningWay to a feeling of deja-vu........
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) March 4, 2017
On a Saturday!
The fast bowlers in the Australian team are basically TCS employees on bench.#INDvsAUS
— Shridhar V (@iimcomic) March 4, 2017
Ohh, the insult!
First time in 40 years that India have been bowled out for less than 200 in three consecutive innings at home - 105, 107 and 189. #IndvAus
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) March 4, 2017
When you do something even Shane Warne could not..
Nathan Lyon.. brilliant bowling #IndvAus #IndvsAus pic.twitter.com/utgVltRTbs
— JagdisH Asodariya (@jagdisHpatelJP) March 4, 2017
Nathan Lyon 1st visiting bowler to take 8 wkts on 1st day of a Test in India!
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) March 4, 2017
Previous best: Andy Roberts - 7/64 at Chennai in 1975#IndvAus
Nathan Lyon's 8 wickets for 50 against India are the best bowling figures by an Australian spin bowler in 96 years. #IndvAus
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) March 4, 2017
Come back from retirement!
Virender Sehwag has spent more time on the ground today than the current Indian batsmen 🙈#IndvsAus #CricketLive
— Shridhar V (@iimcomic) March 4, 2017
And the world still believes in experts? Expert exhibit 1
Looks a very decent pitch. Cracks will open up by the third day...but nothing alarming till then. Win-the-toss-bat-first... #IndvAus
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) March 4, 2017
Expert exhibit 2
Something tells me @imVkohli will get a big hundred in Bangalore. Despite the hurt, he appears so calm. Hallmark of a champ #IndvAus
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) March 3, 2017
Inky, pinky.
When KL Rahul Does Bhumi Pujan, Entire Team Plays Well.
— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) March 4, 2017
When KL Rahul Plays Well, Entire Team Does Bhumi Pujan. #INDvAUS #INDvsAUS #Kohli pic.twitter.com/BPGtYQd3ab
Agree, Sir!
Played Best Innings Of My Life. 0(1).
— Sir Ishant Sharma (@SirIshantSharma) March 4, 2017
RT If Loved It. #IndvAus #IndvsAus
Except Silk Board of course
Indian batsmen will spend more time at a traffic signal in Bangalore today than what they did in the middle 🙏🏻#IndvAus
— Shridhar V (@iimcomic) March 4, 2017