India went into the lunch break needing five wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the Border-Gavaskar series.
Australia’s struggling top four entered the record books in the worst way in Perth by scoring the fewest combined runs in the nation’s Test history after Usman Khawaja and Steve Smith perished cheaply on Monday.
An impressive 63 not out from Travis Head was the only real highlight of the first session of day four as Australia went to the break at 5-104, needing another 430 runs to salvage what would be a miraculous win. Smith, dismissed for a golden duck in the first innings, started to get into his groove before edging Mohammed Siraj behind to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant who dived to his right and took a sharp catch.
Across eight individual innings, Nathan McSweeney, Khawaja, Labuschagne, Smith and Cummins combined for just 29 runs.Never before has an Australian top four made fewer runs in a Test. The next worst was the 38 runs made by Australia’s No.1 to No.4 in a Test against England in Manchester in 1888. On two other occasions in 1888, at Lord’s and the SCG, Australia’s top four made just 40 runs combined.
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