IND vs AUS: India's biggest ODI defeats in terms of balls remaining

Australia registered a massive 10-wicket win over India in the second ODI in Vizag to level the 3-match series 1-1 on Sunday. Opting to field first, the visitors were on the money from the very beginning. Left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc picked three wickets in the powerplay overs to put India on the backfoot.

Rohit Sharma (13), Shubman Gill (0) and Suryakumar Yadav (0) fell prey to sensational opening outburst from the New South Wales pacer who later finished with figures of 5/53 in eight overs.

Sean Abbott also registered his best bowling figures of 3/23, and Nathan Elllis also ended up grabbing two wickets for 13 runs in five overs.

The perfect bowling show from the Australia bowlers saw India getting bundled out for 117 - their lowest ODI home total against India. Overall, it was India's fourth lowest ODI total at home. Virat Kohli top-scored for India with 31 off 35, while Axar Patel remained unbeaten at run-a-ball 29 runs.

Later, Australia gunned down the total in just 11 overs. Mitchell Marsh smashed 66 unbeaten runs off just 36 deliveries, His opening partner Travis Head scored 51 not out runs off 30 deliveries. The two batters combined together to score 16 boundaries in six maximums. Their run rate of 11 is now the third highest in century opening partnerships in ODIs.

New Zealand's Martin Guptill and team's former captain Brendon McCullum top the list with 105 runs off 43 balls at a strike rate of 14.65 against England in Wellington, 2015. Guptill had paired with Tom Latham to score 118 unbeaten run partnership off 50 balls at a strike rate of 14.16 against Sri Lanka in the same year.

However, that is not the record we are talking about here. In focus is India's stunning 10-wicket defeat with the opposition left with 39 overs. Let's have a look at the biggest ODI defeats suffered by India in terms of balls remaining.

India's biggest ODI defeats in terms of balls remaining

234 vs Australia in Visakhapatnam, 2023

212 vs v New Zealand in Hamilton, 2019

209 vs Sri Lanka in Dambulla, 2010

181 vs Sri Lanka in Hambantota, 2012

176 vs Sri Lanka in Dharamsala, 2010

174 vs Australia in Sydney, 1981

166 vs Australia in Centurion, 2003

146 vs New Zealand in Queenstown, 2003

145 vs Australia in Vadodara, 2007

139 vs Australia in Sydney, 2000