Top 5 batting collapses for Australia against India

#4 At Mumbai, 1979

Gavaskar led India to an emphatic win at Mumbai

It was the sixth and final Test of Australia’s Tour of India in 1979.

India were already leading the series 1-0, having won the 3rd Test at Kanpur by 153 runs. The venue for the match was Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium and India batted first.

Centuries from Sunil Gavaskar and Syed Kirmani and half-centuries from Chetan Chauhan and Karsan Ghavri saw India’s innings being declared at 458/8.

In reply, Australia were looking pretty good at 110/2. However, the likes of Shivlal Yadav and Dileep Doshi began to take one wicket after another and the visitors were dismissed for 160, their final eight wickets falling for just 50 runs. Doshi took 5/43 while Yadav took 4/40.

Indian captain Gavaskar enforced the follow-on and Australia had to bat once again. The visitors lost openers Andrew Hilditch and Graham Yallop early but Allan Border and skipper Kim Hughes added 132 to keep them at 149/2.

However, as with the first innings, the Australian batting collapsed following the fall of the third wicket, that of Hughes for 80.

The remaining wickets fell for only 49 runs and Australia were dismissed for 198, giving India an innings win and the series. Kapil Dev and Doshi were the pick of the bowlers, picking up four and three wickets respectively.