In this article, check out India's biggest defeats in test cricket. India lost to Australia in the 2004 Nagpur test match by 342 runs. This is considered the biggest loss in India’s test cricket history.
South Africa (329 runs), Kolkata 1996
After winning the first Test by 64 runs at Motera in 1996, the Indian team try to win Kolkata and notch up another win and win the series before the final Test at Kanpur. Their plan was fail because of poor batting in the final innings saw them lose by a massive margin of 329 runs, their biggest defeat in terms of runs at that time.
To start with, Andrew Hudson and Gary Kirsten, was a strong opening pair laid the platform for a huge first innings total. In reply, the Indian team didn’t play well, yet, despite a century from captain Azharuddin, and a fighting 88 from Kumble, but India is more than a 100 runs short. Kirsten, now with Darryl Cullinan for company, compiled another big century, giving the hosts a massive 467 runs to play for. The Indians crumbled, falling miserably short. Yet, they came back in style and clinched the series at Kanpur.
Australia (333 runs), Pune 2017
Steve O’Keefe, with all but four Tests under his belt, managed to unearth such demons from the Pune pitch that established players like Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane were left clueless. In all, he managed to pick up twelve wickets, bungling the hosts for 100-run totals, handing Kohli his first loss at home as Test captain.
Accompanied by Nathan Lyon, O’Keefe jagged and turned the ball around, sending the batsmen into a tizzy in both innings. Virat Kohli’s dismissal, leaving a delivery that held its line to rattle the stumps, epitomized India’s failed approach to counter spin.
Australia (337 runs), Melbourne 2007
Is was 2007-08 series Australia won the toss and they decided to bat first and their opening pair bullied a partnership of more than 250 runs for first wicket and Indian bowler was not doing good bowling and batsman take the benefit of that and at the and of the inning Australia score 567 runs and now India was started their first inning they started with good partnership but they cannot continue their good batting collapses happen with their batting and they all out for 278 runs but they save follow-on and Australia come for their second inning and they give a huge target of 600 above and India cannot case this huge target all out for just approx. 250 runs this how India get one of the biggest defeats.
Pakistan (341 runs), Karachi 2006
Pakistan were 39-6. Irfan Pathan had taken a hat-trick to send the top three batsmen for nought. But what started with a rearguard effort from Kamran Akmal turned into something big: Pakistan’s then biggest win in Tests.
Replying to Pakistan’s first innings score of 245, the Indian team put up a weak total, troubled by Mohammad Asif and Abdul Razzaq. The Pakistan batsman capitalized in the second innings, scoring a mas 599 spearheaded by Faisal Iqbal’s century. A 607-run target was always going to be too much, and despite Yuvraj Singh’s 122-run knock, the team fell way short, their biggest defeat away from home.
Australia (342 runs) Nagpur 2004
A big partnership between Michael Clarke and Damien Martyn first helped them put up a decent first innings score, then Jason Gillespie’s nagging pace accounted for the batsmen in both innings. There was hardly any fight by the Indians in either of the side, barring fighting knocks from Mohammad Kaif and Virender Sehwag. The second Australian innings, peppered with half centuries from the middle order, handed India a 543 run target. They managed just 200. A consolation win at Mumbai is all they could manage, but the series was lost.
