Just For Laughs

The best tweets and memes on India’s monumental collapse v Australia

by Wisden Staff December 19, 2020 - 4:07pm 1 minute read

India succumbed to two world-class spells of fast bowling from Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins in the first session of play on day three of the Adelaide Test, folding for 36 in their second innings, and it brought out the best of the meme world.

Virat Kohli’s men started the third day at 9-1 with Mayank Agarwal and Jasprit Bumrah unbeaten overnight but could add just 27 more to their total, losing eight wickets, with Mohammad Shami forced to retire hurt after a Cummins bouncer struck him on the forearm. Australia completed a comprehensive win, scoring the required 90 runs with eight wickets to spare.

None of India’s batsmen were able to get to double digits even.

Now Adelaide, which has witnessed some famous Indian victories over the years across formats, will now be associated with India’s worst ever outing with the bat in Tests.

Adelaide 2003: Rahul Dravid 233 in 1st innings, 72 in 2nd innings.

Adelaide 2020: India 244 in 1st innings, 36 in 2nd innings.#AUSvIND

— Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) December 19, 2020

Wasim Jaffer is every India fan.

#AUSvIND #INDvAUS pic.twitter.com/li5FnPgYEZ

— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14) December 19, 2020

Ah, this explains why the Indian batsmen seemed in a hurry.

#INDvsAUSTest
Indian batsmen to aus bowlers in 2nd innings : pic.twitter.com/TQlXai3W7Y

— Muskurahat 🌸💚 (@__Muskurahat__) December 19, 2020

Certainly looked like it.

Day three of #AUSvIND so far pic.twitter.com/lfaxuudSdK

— Evan Morgan Grahame (@Evan_M_G) December 19, 2020

Burns eventually finished with 51*.

India: 36
Joe Burns: 40*#AUSvIND #AUSvsIND #INDvAUS pic.twitter.com/6YzdF2BoFP

— CricBlog ✍ (@cric_blog) December 19, 2020

So, is Rohit Sharma the answer to India’s problems?

All hail our “saviour”. #AUSvIND #AUSvsIND pic.twitter.com/unLghcp30o

— Sir Repliesalot (@SwearyTweet) December 19, 2020

India rewrote the record books in just one session, to be fair.

Ravi Shastri :You told us to go and break records in 🇦🇺 that’s what we are doing 😅🍻India in deep shock #INDvsAUS #AUSvIND #TestCricket pic.twitter.com/m7Wffai7S3

— Yash (@yash1520) December 19, 2020

India fans now know how this feels.

Yeh 90 minute. Yeh 90 minute humse koi toh cheen liye 😶😞

I am unable to get over what just happened. Got up all excited for a thrilling Test match day only to see Team India’s worst performance ever.

Come on bois 🤞🏻#AUSvsIND #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/aZBwiYHHh0

— Tarun Janjua (@kaintguy) December 19, 2020

Worst Saturday morning, ever. Obviously for the India fans.