<p>Australia pace spearhead Pat Cummins was pleasantly surprised by the fiery, flawless display of pace bowling that consigned India to a record low total in the opening day-night Test on Saturday.</p>.<p>Cummins's double strike on the third day unhinged Virat Kohli's India who were eventually shot out for 36, their lowest innings score in 88 years of Test cricket.</p>.<p>"We thought if we could get them out for 200 today, have a bit of a bat, we'd stay in the game," Cummins told <em>Channel 7</em> after claiming 4-21 to go with his three first innings wickets.</p>.<p>"But for that to happen in the first hour, amazing."</p>.<p>"It was just one of those days where everything came off, everything we tried worked," said the top-ranked Test bowler.</p>.<p>Cummins felt that they bowled well in the first innings too but were richly rewarded for tweaking their length on Saturday.</p>.<p>"We found in the first innings there was actually a lot of bounce, so to hit the stumps it almost felt like it had to be a half volley.</p>.<p>"But when we got into our work, we were able to get up there a bit fuller, make the batters make decisions, make it harder to leave the ball and fortunately it all came off today."</p>.<p>The 27-year-old likened his team's bowling performance to last year's Headingley Test when they skittled out England for 67 in the first innings.</p>.<p>"Last year in the Headingley first innings, we had a similar day out. Today and then are by far the best I've seen us bowl."</p>.<p>Josh Hazlewood was Australia's wrecker-in-chief against India at the Adelaide Oval, claiming 5-8, while Mitchell Starc could not add to his four first innings wickets.</p>.<p>"At one stage he told Starcy, 'I'm going to try and keep my wickets above my runs here', so he was cheeky there towards the end," Cummins said of Hazlewood.</p>
<p>Australia pace spearhead Pat Cummins was pleasantly surprised by the fiery, flawless display of pace bowling that consigned India to a record low total in the opening day-night Test on Saturday.</p>.<p>Cummins's double strike on the third day unhinged Virat Kohli's India who were eventually shot out for 36, their lowest innings score in 88 years of Test cricket.</p>.<p>"We thought if we could get them out for 200 today, have a bit of a bat, we'd stay in the game," Cummins told <em>Channel 7</em> after claiming 4-21 to go with his three first innings wickets.</p>.<p>"But for that to happen in the first hour, amazing."</p>.<p>"It was just one of those days where everything came off, everything we tried worked," said the top-ranked Test bowler.</p>.<p>Cummins felt that they bowled well in the first innings too but were richly rewarded for tweaking their length on Saturday.</p>.<p>"We found in the first innings there was actually a lot of bounce, so to hit the stumps it almost felt like it had to be a half volley.</p>.<p>"But when we got into our work, we were able to get up there a bit fuller, make the batters make decisions, make it harder to leave the ball and fortunately it all came off today."</p>.<p>The 27-year-old likened his team's bowling performance to last year's Headingley Test when they skittled out England for 67 in the first innings.</p>.<p>"Last year in the Headingley first innings, we had a similar day out. Today and then are by far the best I've seen us bowl."</p>.<p>Josh Hazlewood was Australia's wrecker-in-chief against India at the Adelaide Oval, claiming 5-8, while Mitchell Starc could not add to his four first innings wickets.</p>.<p>"At one stage he told Starcy, 'I'm going to try and keep my wickets above my runs here', so he was cheeky there towards the end," Cummins said of Hazlewood.</p>