Top 5 batting collapses for Australia against India

#3. At Mumbai, 2004

Harbhajan Singh helped India defend a paltry 106

It was the final Test of the 2004-05 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Australia had already bagged the series 2-0 by winning the first and third Tests at Bengaluru and Nagpur respectively.

This Test marked the debuts of Gautam Gambhir, Dinesh Karthik and Nathan Hauritz.

India batted first but were skittled out for a paltry 104 thanks to some sensational bowling from Jason Gillespie, debutant Hauritz and Michael Kasprowicz.

Gillespie was the pick of the Australian bowlers with four wickets while Hauritz and Kasprowicz took three and two scalps respectively.

In reply, some brilliant bowling by Anil Kumble and Murali Kartik reduced Australia to 203 with Kumble picking up his third five-wicket haul of the series while Kartik took four wickets.

In the second innings, fifties from Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman took India to 205, giving the visitors a target of just 107 to register a third win in the series. Michael Clarke bowled an unbelievable spell of 6/9.

India barely had anything to defend but they got off to a flier with Zaheer Khan dismissing Justin Langer in just the second delivery.

The early breakthrough boosted the morale of the Indian players. Langer’s wicket was the only one that was taken by a pacer as the spinners, specially Harbhajan Singh, began to clean up the Aussie batting.

Bhajji took five wickets for 29 runs as Australia were bundled out for just 93, giving India a consolation but an unexpected victory by 13 runs.