India's 5 biggest defeats in Test cricket

Australia (337 runs), Melbourne 2007

Australia completed a convincing win in the first Test of the controversial series

The acrimonious tour of 2007-08 for India might be fresh in fans’ memories for completely different reasons, but few would also have forgotten the embarrassing defeat at MCG in the Boxing Day Test, one of Australia’s two wins in the four-match series.

The Indian batting just didn’t click in the opening Test, part of the problem being the makeshift opening pair of Wasim Jaffer and Rahul Dravid. The tourists couldn’t get past 200 in either of the innings, troubled by the trio of Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee and Stuart Clark.

The Aussie batsmen, riding on the form of openers Phil Jacques and Matthew Hayden, had enough runs to test the Indian batsmen with their incisive pace attack. The Indian batsmen, however, were found wanting.