5 heartbreaking Test losses for India where they failed to build on crucial moments

#4 Australia vs India, Adelaide 2014

It was Virat Kohli's first match as India's captain and it gave us a glimpse of what the future had in store for Team India. Despite Virat Kohli's magical 115 that helped India to a respectable 444 in response to Australia's mammoth 7/517 in the first innings, India was never really in the game for the better part of the match. In a bid to enforce a result, Australia, thanks to David Warner (102), who got his 2nd hundred of the game set India 363 runs to win on the 5th day Adelaide pitch that had shown considerable signs of wear and turn.

But, Inspired by their captain's aggression, India went for the chase, and at 2/242 with Virat Kohli (141) and Murali Vijay (99), the tourists looked firmly on control. But as they say, "the great Indian Batting Collapse is always round the corner", and the same happened when Nathan Lyon (7/152) trapped Vijay (99) lbw. 2/242 soon became 4/242 as Rohit Sharma (6) and Ajinkya Rahane (0) fell in quick succession.

Kohli completed a sublime hundred, but due to some insipid batting by India's lower middle order didn't get any significant support from the other end. He finally got holed out to deep midwicket at the hands of Nathan Lyon. India's hopes of what would have been a famous win were dashed as they got bowled out for 315, 48 runs adrift of the target.

Australia 517/7d (David Warner 145, Mohammed Shami 2/120) & 290/5d (David Warner 102, Karn Sharma 2/95) beat India 444 (Virat Kohli 115, Nathan Lyon 5/134) & 315 (Virat Kohli 141, Nathan Lyon 7/152) by 48 runs.