With a combined experience of 10 deliveries in Test cricket before this match, T Natarajan, Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur picked up a total of nine wickets between them. India took five wickets in the second day’s first session to bowl Australia out for 369 on the stroke of lunch in the series-deciding fourth Test in Brisbane on Saturday.
After resuming at 274/5 at the Gabba, the Australians lost quick wickets in the morning session including the overnight batsmen Tim Paine and Cameron Green.
Paine and Green had started aggressively on a flat batting wicket and looked to push the score beyond 400.
But shortly after reaching his half-century, Paine chased a wide ball from Thakur (3/94) and edged to Rohit Sharma at third slip to leave Australia 311/6.
Green survived a sharp chance on 45 off Washington Sundar but two runs later, the off-spinner got his revenge when he bowled the Australian number six for 47.
Thakur, playing only his second Test, took his third wicket…