15 instances of cheap Test totals since 2008

#4 Australia: 60 vs England, Trent Bridge 2015

Career-best figures of 8/15 by Stuart Broad in the 2015 Ashes blew Australia away for 60 at Trent Bridge

Brief Scores: England 391/9 dec (Root 130, Cook 43; Starc 6/111) beat Australia 60 (Johnson 13; Broad 8/15, Wood 1/13) and 253 (Warner 64, Rogers 52; Stokes 6/36) by an innings and 78 runs

Local boy Stuart Broad bowled one bewildering delivery after another as arch-rivals Australia were left licking their wounds on a seam bowler’s paradise at Trent Bridge. The ball swung this way and that, and edges from Australia’s batsmen flew into the hands of fielders behind the wicket, with Ben Stokes grabbing a stunning catch at wide gully.

A shameful total of 60 inside 19 overs took its toll, as an innings defeat loomed large on Australia, who eventually lost by an innings and 78 runs and surrendered the Ashes with an unassailable 3-1 lead to England.

#3 South Africa: 79 vs India, Nagpur 2015

Brief Scores: India 215 (Vijay 40; Harmer 4/78, Morkel 3/35) and 173 (Dhawan 39; Tahir 5/38, Morkel 3/19) beat South Africa 79 (Duminy 35; Ashwin 5/32, Jadeja 4/33) and 185 (du Plessis 39; Ashwin 7/66, Mishra 3/51) by 124 runs

On a raging turner at Nagpur, India included three frontline spinners in their eleven to try and bamboozle South Africa in alien conditions away from home.

With the ball turning from the first session on Day 1, even Dean Elgar found turn – and even got a wicket – as India made 215, but South Africa were dismissed for 79 with their batsmen appearing clueless to Ravi Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. Only three batsmen entered double figures in a game which would eventually not see even a single half-century from either side. In the second innings, Ashwin grabbed 7/66 as India won by 124 runs on a pitch rated as “poor” by the ICC.