Plagued by injury to two of their team, India finished sixth, even as Australia swelled their medal tally at the Commonwealth Games with a gold in the men's artistic gymnastics at Indira Gandhi stadium on Monday.
Australia won the gold, with 259.050 points, in the men's artistic team subdivision two competition on the Vault, while England, who led into the final rotation, finished with the silver medal with 256.750 points.
Canada bagged the bronze with 248.500 points.
Australia became the third country to win the men's team event in gymnastics artistic.
Canada (four times) and England (twice) were the only two CGAs to win this event in the history of the Games.
All 21 medals in this event have been now divided between Australia, Canada and England.
India's coach Vladimir Chertkov, however, appeared optimistic despite their sixth place finish.
"This is not the end -- we look forward. I have seen tremendous improvement in the performance of the team. We have (already) qualified for the (2010) World Championships."
"The main challenge for our team is landing. So we focus a lot on that."
Indian duo of Rohit Jaiswal and Partha Mondal injured during their paces, putting pressure on the duo of Akhil Kumar and Mayank Srivastava.
Jaiswal hurt his leg during a tumbling pass on his first apparatus floor, but returned later in the competition to help his team finish sixth.
"Our plan was to get a bronze medal at least. We slipped in the very first apparatus and it was disappointing," Srivastava said.
Indian ace Akhil Kumar said, "Our injured athletes came back and supported our team. That's a huge support. Rohit will take some time to recover, because he was already injured," Akhil said.
"Performing in India was special. We were really happy to see the Indian crowd."
The triumphant Australian coach Vladmir Vatkin said their English opponents faltered in the pommel horse to give them an advantage.
"It worked until the pommel horse. We fell four times, then our friends from England did the same. Gymnastics does not have much strategy. You perform your best, pull together as a team and enjoy every minute," Vatkin told reporters.
