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Biggest defeats for India

By Rajneesh Gupta
October 10, 2004 17:40 IST
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Australia beat India by 217 runs in the first Test at Bangalore on the fifth and final day despite a stiff resistance from the lower order. The defeat is India's biggest against Australia and fifth biggest against all opponents at home soil.

In all India have now suffered 15 losses by 200 or more runs - surprisingly 8 of them have come in India.

The accompanying table has the details:

Margin Winner Test Venue Series
329 runs South Africa 2nd Calcutta 1996-97
328 runs South Africa 1st Durban 1996-97
300 runs Australia 5th Perth 1991-92
295 runs West Indies 4th Madras (Corp.) 1958-59
285 runs Australia 1st Adelaide 1999-00
282 runs South Africa 2nd Cape Town 1996-97
267 runs West Indies 1st Bangalore 1974-75
247 runs England 1st Lord's 1990
243 runs West Indies 3rd Mohali 1994-95
233 runs Australia 3rd Melbourne 1947-48
217 runs West Indies 3rd Port-of-Spain 1988-89
217 runs Australia 1st Bangalore 2004-05
203 runs West Indies 2nd Kanpur 1958-59
202 runs England 3rd Madras (MAC) 1933-34
201 runs West Indies 5th Bombay WS 1974-75

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- Follow-on: to enforce or not
- Clarke joins a select band
- Dravid catches a ton
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