5 biggest batting collapses in 2016

#3 Australia 85/10 versus South Africa at Hobart (Second Test)

South Africa roared down under

Unlike a five-match series, if a team loses the opening Test in a three-match series, the comeback endeavour becomes synonymous to fighting against the inevitable. Australia tasted defeat in the first Test against South by 177 runs at one of the fastest wickets in world cricket at the W.A.C.A. in Perth.

In their comeback bid, the Kangaroos were shot out for 85 runs in the first innings- their lowest total in Tests in the last 32 years. The Aussie batting never got a measure of the Proteas bowling as Vernon Philander went through the Australian line-up like a knife through hot butter. For Australia, captain Steve Smith was the sole warrior who seemed to storm the Proteas pace-battery with five boundaries.

Nine out of eleven batsmen got out for single figures for the Kangaroos. Despite rain halting play for a substantial period of the game, Australia never recovered from the jolt and succumbed to a defeat by an innings and 80 runs. Even in the second innings, they capitulated from 129/2 to 161 all out after a hard fight by David Warner, Usman Khwaja and Steve Smith.