India now jointly hold the record for highest number of ducks in an innings along with with South Africa and Bangladesh.
Today, Murali Vijay, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Pankaj Singh all went back without troubling the scorers while Gautam Gambhir (4) and Varun Aaron (1 no) didn't reach double figures.
Only three batsmen -- skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (71), Ajinkya Rahane (24) and Ravichandran Ashwin (40) had respectable scores against their names.
Pankaj Roy, Dattaji Rao Gaekwad, Madhav Mantri, Vijay Manjrekar and Gulab Ramchand were out for duck in a total score of 165 in the second innings of that Test match.
India were 0/4 at one stage with Fred Trueman and Alec Bedser running riot.
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