India v Australia: Tourists collapse to first Test innings defeat inside three days

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First Test, Nagpur (day three):
Australia 177 & 91: Smith 25*; Ashwin 5-37
India 400: Rohit 120, A Patel 84, Jadeja 70; Murphy 7-124
India won by an innings and 132 runs
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India bushed Australia by an innings and 132 runs wrong 3 days successful the archetypal Test of their four-match series.

Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took 5-37 arsenic the tourists, needing 223 to marque India bat again, were bowled retired for 91 successful their 2nd innings successful Nagpur.

Steve Smith was near unbeaten connected 25 arsenic Australian wickets tumbled astir him.

India, who began the time connected 321-7, were yet bowled retired for 400, debutant Aussie spinner Todd Murphy taking 2 much wickets to decorativeness with 7-124.

He bowled Ravindra Jadeja for 70 to extremity an 88-run basal with Axar Patel, who past fell to skipper Pat Cummins for 84.

Victoria off-spinner Murphy rounded disconnected an awesome idiosyncratic show with the last India wicket, arsenic Mohammed Shami was caught down aft making 37 from 47 balls.

Opener Usman Khawaja was caught by Virat Kohli for 5 disconnected Ashwin successful lone the 2nd implicit of Australia's 2nd innings, which rapidly unravelled from there.

The tourists collapsed successful conscionable nether 2 hours arsenic Ashwin ended with 8 wickets successful the match, with chap spinner Jadeja taking 2-34.

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