India became the first team to have the option of asking Australia to follow on twice in a home summer as the hosts’ list of unwanted records grew even longer on the penultimate day of the fourth Test at the SCG.

After rain delayed the start of play in Sydney, Australia were rolled for 300 on Sunday afternoon, giving up a first-innings lead of 322 to India before Virat Kohli sent Tim Paine’s men back in to bat.

Australia, who had not been asked to follow on at home since 1988, reached 6-0 in their second innings when bad light prompted an early tea break and ruined any hope of further play.

It comes after India also amassed a 292-run first-innings lead in Melbourne last week, only on that occasion they opted to bat again themselves in the 137-run thrashing.

Regardless, it marks the first time a touring team has had the option to enforce the follow on twice in one summer in Australia. In total, Australia have only conceded a 200-run deficit when batting second in a Test 43 times in their history, and just 16 times at home.

It is just one of a number of statistics the Australian team would not have wanted to be linked to this summer.

Kohli’s decision to send Australia back in marked the first time a visiting team had enforced the follow on in Australia since Mike Gatting did so in the bicentennial Test of 1988.

Sunday’s 322-run deficit is also the third-largest in Australia’s history at the SCG, and their biggest since 1936.

The hosts are also on track to go through their first century-less four-Test home series in their history, with just one innings left to end that drought.

India’s first innings score of 622-7 declared at the SCG was also the sixth highest score by a visiting team in Australia, while it also marked the first time a visiting team had declared for three innings in a row in the country.

India are also set to become the first team from Asia to win a series in Australia with either a win or draw in Sydney.

Australia, resuming at 236-6 on day four, quickly lost 3-22 a day after their top order folded in a collapse of 3-24. Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood, who was dropped on zero, combined for a final-wicket stand of 42 that spanned 14 overs but only delayed the inevitable. Recalled tweaker Kuldeep Yadav finished with figures of 5-99.

Left-arm spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Yadav did the bulk of the damage on day three, but it was quicks Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah who made early inroads with the second new ball.

Shami’s third ball of the day kept low and scooted underneath Pat Cummins’ bat, uprooting off stump. Bumrah needed just four balls at Peter Handscomb to remove the recalled batsman for 37, tempting him to play a delivery outside off that took the inside edge and dislodged the bails.

Yadav trapped Nathan Lyon lbw for a fifth-ball duck then could have been denied a five-wicket haul when Hanuma Vihari offered Hazlewood a life in the following over. But Yadav eventually had his man and ended the innings, trapping Hazlewood lbw with a wrong’un.