10 Reasons for India's record-breaking win at Adelaide

4. Collective bowling effort of the Indian bowlers in the first innings

The Indian fast bowlers were relentless

Though India managed to score only 250 runs in the first innings, the Indian bowlers were relentless in the first innings with their tight line and length aggressive bowling. The Indian bowlers were also helped by the slow outfield which made the Indian score to look like 400.

In the absence of David Warner and Steve Smith, the Australians couldn’t get going at the top and in their effort to grind the Indian bowlers to dust, played into their hands.

While Ashwin accounted for the 3 left-handers at the top, Ishant, Bumrah and Shami took care of the middle and lower orders of the Australian batting line up. It was due to their collective consistent efforts that India could squeeze out a 15 run lead in the first innings which accounted for half of the ultimate margin of victory.