India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Highlights: Rahul, Jadeja, tail-enders help India avoid follow-on after Cummins' four
- India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Highlights: Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah stitched an unbeaten 39-run stand for the final wicket as India avoided follow-on in Brisbane
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Highlights: The final hour went completely in favour of India, who were all smiles after a valiant show from Jasprit Bumrah and Akash Deep, as the tourists avoided follow-on in Brisbane amid another start-stop day. Mitchell Starc removed Mohammed Siraj in the over after Tea, while Pat Cummins perfectly plotted Ravindra Jadeja's dismissal at the start of the final hour to leave Australia on the brink of inflicting follow-on. ...Read More
However, India's No. 10 and 11 put on an unbeaten 39-run stand to stretch India's fight before Akash smashed a stunning boundary against Cummins to get the dressing room up on their feet as they avoided the follow-on. Stumps were taken shortly after, with bad light stopping the play at the Gabba. Australia will enter the final day with still a wicket o take before they can resume their second innings.
Rain stayed away for much of the first session but it wreaked havoc in the second, eventually forcing an early Tea with India 201/7, 45 runs away from avoiding a follow-on. Ravindra Jadeja and Nitish Kumar Reddy seemed to have shut the door on Australia after play resumed in the second session after a second rain delay. The pair looked untroubled against Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon but Australia captain Pat Cummins brought himself on and dismissed his SRH teammate Reddy. Jadeja now has Mohammed Siraj for company.
Jadeja's signature sword celebration has made its debut in this year's Border-Gavaskar Trophy, with the all-rounder powering India's lower order push in his very first innings of the tour. While rain largely stayed away in the first session of Day 4 of the third Test in Brisbane, it has hampered the second session, delaying its start and then forcing it to be interrupted after just about three overs were bowled. India's score read 180/6 in 51.5 overs at the time of the interruption and they require 65 runs to avoid the follow-on.
Jadeja and Nitish Kumar Reddy saw India through to Lunch in Brisbane at which point India were 79 runs away from avoiding a follow-on, with the score reading 167/6. KL Rahul's valiant fight ended on 84 off 139 balls as he fell to Nathan Lyon thanks to a screamer of a catch from Steve Smith. Rahul stood strong through multiple rain breaks over the course of Day 3 and a brief one in the first session today. He left the ball and stayed patient while the rest of his teammates fell around him until he finally found some kind of support at last in the form of Jadeja, who is batting for the first time in this series. The partnership between the pair was on 67 off 115 when Rahul fell. Their stand crossed fifty shortly after play resumed in the first session, with rain causing a break post drinks on Day 4 of the third Test between India and Australia at the Gabba.
Rahul has made the most of the stroke of luck he got early on Day 4 by cruising to a half-century in an innings where the rest of the Indian batters fell like nine pins in the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. He was dropped off Australia captain Pat Cummins by Steve Smith very first ball of the day. Cummins eventually got his wicket by drawing a timid prod from India captain Rohit Sharma and getting him to edge it to the wicketkeeper having scored 10 off 27 balls. India thus lost half their side while being more than 370 runs behind.
Only 33.1 overs could be delivered on day three at the Gabba, which saw both sides frustrated with the stop-start nature of play due to rain. Nevertheless, 33.1 overs was enough for Australia to hammer home their advantage and put themselves in the driver’s seat and sway the odds of this match — and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as a whole — strongly in their favour.
A disastrous start to the innings with bat leaves India gasping for air at 51-4 at stumps, with KL Rahul the only batter successful in making any sort of knock of substance as multiple wickets fell cheaply and loosely to Australia’s barrage with the new ball. Rahul is now joined by captain Rohit Sharma, who is in poor touch and desperate need of runs, the sort of batter you don’t want coming out with a Test match on the edge as he looks for confidence.
India remain 394 runs off Australia’s total, with the hosts’ mammoth first innings combined with cheap wickets meaning they are not only looking at a win, but the potential of a massive, spirit-sapping kind that India will suffer the hangover from heading into the rest of the series. Australia have the potential to run through India’s batting extremely cheaply, giving them the opportunity to enforce the follow on and still give themselves four or five sessions to try and bowl out India once again.
With Australia doing all the basics right and India doing quite the opposite, the results on page say as much about approach and mentality in this match as it does about any sort of gulf in quality. India would have had big hopes from the young core of their batting in Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, and Rishabh Pant, but the trio fell cheaply, only for a combined 14 runs. Jaiswal and Gill in particular will be disappointed by their short knocks: Jaiswal knocked a leg-stump half-volley straight to mid-wicket, while Gill flashed wildly at a ball wide outside off-stump to be caught at gully.
Things were made worse as Virat Kohli entered with a strong chance of rescuing the innings alongside KL Rahul, but fell into the same old trap as he was caught trying to drive expansively outside off stump. Josh Hazlewood’s setup worked perfectly as India’s talismanic batter tried to flirt with the delivery and only feathered it through to Alex Carey with the gloves behind the stumps. Indian fans will be extremely disappointed with the manner of these dismissals, more than anything else: with their backs against the wall, it was almost as if India’s main batters threw their wickets away, leaving tonnes of pressure on the lower middle order and the batters to come.
India haven’t been forced to follow on in a Test match since the tour of England in 2011, but with Australia hunting for wickets and still 194 runs to go and only 6 wickets in hand to avoid the follow-on, a lot will rest on the shoulders of senior batters in Rahul and Rohit. They will have some solace in the fact that there are capable batters to come with Ravindra Jadeja and Nitish Kumar Reddy, but will know that they will need to significantly eat into the total themselves rather than rely on the all-round duo.
For Australia, a world of possibilities opens up if they can dismiss one of the two batters early on day four. While KL Rahul has looked stable and safe at the crease despite being struck on his wrist early in the piece by Hazlewood, Rohit has looked extremely vulnerable against high pace in recent months, and that is a weakness that Australia can certainly exploit. With mass runs on the board, Australia can afford to be aggressive in their tactics and look for wickets through the day, with the flexibility to change their plans in case India do succeed in getting runs on the board.
India will know it’s not all doom and gloom. If Rohit can find the form of old, he and Rahul can score runs, with plenty of experience partnering each other in testing conditions in the past. With the threat of rain also looming over day four, the visitors wouldn’t mind a helping hand, with any route towards a win eradicated by this point in time. It’s a question of first avoiding the follow on, and then batting for time: after their horror display in the first half of this Test match, the Indian team will be more than happy to settle for a draw and go back to the drawing board ahead of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG.
Here are some pointers for India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4:
- Jasprit Bumrah, Akash Deep's unbeaten 39-run stand helps India avoid follow-on at close of day's play.
- Pat Cummins dismisses Ravindra Jadeja for 77 at the start of the final hour of day's play.
- Mitchell Starc gets rid of Mohammed Siraj in first over after Tea
- Rain forced an early Tea, India were 201/7, need 45 runs to avoid follow-on
- Nitish Kumar Reddy and Jadeja put up a partnership of 67 in 115 balls before Pat Cummins dismissed the former
- Ravindra Jadeja scored his 22nd Test fifty in the first over of the second session
- Heavy rains delayed the start of the second session
- India 167/7 in 49 overs at Lunch, trail by 278 runs
- KL Rahul fell to Nathan Lyon thanks to a screamer from Steve Smith on 94 off 139
- Partnership between KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja crossed 50 in 73 balls
- Rain interrupted play after the first hour of play, India 105/5 in 30.5 overs
- KL Rahul got to his half-century in 85 balls
- India start the day on 51/4, trailing Australia by 394 runs
- KL Rahul was batting on 33 off 64 balls while Rohit Sharma was yet to get off the mark after facing six balls on Day 3
- Australia were all out for 445 runs, with Jasprit Bumrah returning figures of 6/76
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- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 01:29 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: STUMPS!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Stumps! Umpires called off the remainder of the play right after India avoided follow-on in Brisbane. We will be back tomorrow for the final day at the Gabba to find out which way the match will swing.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 01:23 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Bad Light stops play!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: The light metre comes out. Umpires asked the players to go off the field as bad light stopped play in Brisbane
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 01:22 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: AKASH DEEP!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: The Indian dressing room is finally up on their feet. Gambhir was ecstatic as Akash Deep smashed a four against Cummins to avoid follow-on. Kohli was then in disbelief as the India No. 11 smashed a massive six against the Australia captain.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 01:19 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: INDIA AVOID FOLLOW-ON!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: It's been a huge psychological battle for India, especially after the dismissal of KL Rahul and then Jadeja, an hour back, but Bumrah and Akash held their nerves against the relentless Aussie pace attack to avoid the follow-on. Rohit and Gambhir seemed o have enjoyed the show from the dressing room as the two tail-enders together faced close top 50 balls in the battle.
India 256/9, trail by 199 runs against Australia (445)
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 01:10 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Why did India send Siraj ahead of Akash?
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Akash is looking a far better tail-end batter that Siraj. impressive stuff. Sneaks a quick double as india now need just 8 runs to avoid follow-on. It's down to single digit now!
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 01:02 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Akash Deep joins the party!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Akash Deep, India's no. 11, smashed a boundary against Mitchell Starc through point in the final ball of the 71st over. India now need just 13 runs to avoid follow-on
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:45 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: SIX from Bumrah!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Bumrah did not shy away from reminding reporters of his batting record of most runs in an over, when he had smashed Stuart Broad a few years back. He showed a glimpse of it against Cummins as he pulled the shorter one over square leg for a six. India need 25 runs to avoid follow-on
India 221/9, trail by 224 runs against Australia (445)
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:35 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Cummins ploy WORKS!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: There was a sudden change in field placements as Cummins moved his fielders out towards the boundary. Jadeja was baited with the short ball and he went for the big pull towards the deep mid-wicket region. Cummins had stationed Marsh at mid-wicket and the all-rounder made a diving effort to dismiss Jadeja. Australia now stand a wicket away from inflicting follow-on
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:31 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Jadeja…nearly survives!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: After smacking a six against Lyon in the previous over, he almost survived a dismissal against Cummins after the ball ballooned over the slip cordon to run away for a boundary. India now need 33 runs to avoid follow-on.
India 213/8, trail by 232 runs against Australia (445)
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:20 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Starc gets rid of Siraj
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: The left-armer strikes immediately after the break. Siraj edges one behind and Alex Carey dives to take a beauty. Siraj out for 1. India go 8 down.
India 201/8, trail by 244 runs against Australia (445)
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:17 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Play resumes!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Play resumes as Siraj faces Starc. India still 45 runs away from avoiding follow-on. Australia need three more wickets to wrap up this innings
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:13 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Covers are coming off, resumption imminent!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: All right those light drizzles have drifted away and it looks like the umpires are confident enough to have a resumption just minutes from now. Despite the fact that the pitch covers are coming off just now.
India need 45 runs to avoid the follow-on.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:12 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Covers still on
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: It looks like there is going to be a further delay in the resumption. The showers continue, the covers stay there. We have seen this happening so many times these past two days and one really has to appreciate the ground staff here.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:00 PM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: BREAKING NEWS - Josh Hazlewood is out for the rest of the series
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Wow this is a huge blow for Australia and it has to be asked if it was smart to bring him back for this Test when Scott Boland was so good in Adelaide. Cricket Australia has said that the right-sided calf strain which forced him off the field after bowling one over today has ruled him out for the rest of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:57 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Rain is back, Tea has been taken, India 201/7, need 45 to avoid follow-on
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Well Starc is not happy about that at all. He bowls a couple of short ones, the second one threatening to behead Siraj and then when the rain comes, the umpire knocks off the bails and calls for Tea. Starc was standing at the top of his run up when that happened and he had some words with Illingworth before finally dragging himself off. He seemed a bit dumbfounded when he turned around after walking to top of his run up and turning around to see everyone just walking off. Then he asked Illingworth what in the world is going on and threw his arms up in frustration while looking up at the leaky clouds above his head.
Siraj survives until resumption, having made one in seven balls, Jadeja on 65 off 109 balls.
India 201/7 in 62.2 overs, trail by 244 runs
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:48 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Suicidal from Siraj!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: What in the world is going on here? Siraj is acting like a deer caught in the headlights here. Jadeja runs three off the fourth ball of the 62nd over by Cummins, leaving Siraj to fend off two balls. Well he has other ideas, he thinks its prudent to take an impossibly tight single. Jadeja sends him back, Cummins runs in and has a throw at the striker's end and then they run for the overthrow. And even while they do that, Siraj seems to stop in the middle to talk to Jadeja. Utterly bonkers. Jadeja can't get the last ball away and now Siraj has to potentially survive six balls from Mitch Starc! Bit of a clown show there.
India need 45 to avoid follow-on
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:43 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Siraj blocks out Lyon succesfully
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Big cheers from the Indian fans in the crowd as Siraj manages to block out the last three deliveries of the 61st over by Lyon. Cummins to continue from the other end with Jadeja on strike. Jadeja has scored 60 in 104 balls.
India 195/7, need 51 to avoid follow-on
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:33 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: OUT! Cummins does the job for Australia
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Reddy chops on and his SRH captain wheels away in celebration!
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:27 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Partnership between Jadeja and Reddy on 51 off 100 balls
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Ok then we are seeing a markedly different Nitish Reddy here. He has looked absolutely solid in defence and isn't really looking to play any shots. He has scored 14 runs in 56 balls and Jadeja has also hunkered down, scoring 59 in 101 balls. Now Pat Cummins replaces Mitchell Starc, can he get a breakthrough for his side?
India 192/6 in 59 overs, need 53 to avoid follow-on
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:15 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Still Starc and Lyon
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Lyon has bowled his second since resumption and now Starc returns as well and so no Cummins at all in the first four overs of this period. The partnership between Reddy and Jadeja has now got to 45 in 75 balls and so this is starting to get frustrating now for Australia. They want to enforce the follow-on, despite the absence of Hazlewood, as that is the only way they can force a win out of this match. And for WTC final purposes, and general morale, a win here is extremely important for them.
India 186/6 in 55 overs, trail by 259 runs
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:03 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: The second session resumes again!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Starc had one ball left to bowl in that 52nd over, he pitches it right into the blockhole for Reddy, shaping it into the left hander. Reddy defends and Starc walks off smiling as a few of his teammates behind the striker's end comment about what a long over he just bowled.
Reddy is on nine off 27, Jadeja on 52 off 88. Nathan Lyon bowling from the other end
India 180/6 in 52 overs, need 65 to avoid follow on
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:53 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Tea to be taken at 12 noon IST
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: So if we have a full session from here on, Tea will be taken in an hour after resumption, which is not ideal at all. More overs lost. India would be hoping that Jadeja and Reddy can hold out as much as possible.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:45 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Play to resume at 11am IST!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Ok we have an update at long last. The session will resume at 11am IST. And yes, it is still this sesssion, Tea was never called for. We can see the larger square cover being taken off.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:28 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Raining away at the Gabba
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: It has reduced to a drizzle but there is more rain in the radar. It doesn't look like the umpires are very interested in bringing the players back out with the possibility that they may have to rush back about two overs later.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:19 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Smith's blinder to make up for his blunder
India vs. Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Smith dropped an absolute sitter to give KL Rahul a wake-up call off his captain Cummins. When he did take that screamer to get Rahul towards the end of that session, it wasn't off Cummins, but surely the pacer didn't mind that one bit.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:58 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: And the rain returns!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Well, it's almost like it never left. In fact the clouds wanted to see Jadeja's sword celebration and once that happened, they opened up. Starc bowls his second over of the session and it starts pouring after he bowls the fifth ball. Well, as stated earlier, this burst was on the radar even before the inspection happened.
India 180/6 in 51.5 overs, trail by 265 runs
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:48 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Fifty for Jadeja!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: There is that sword celebration. Test half-century No.22 for Jadeja. He has a very good record in Australia, an average of 54.00 in five Tests before this innings. Jadeja welcomes Starc with a lovely on drive for four first ball of the session. Then he gets a little lucky as he fails to get bat on ball as it grazed his thigh pad before rolling away fine to the boundary. The umpire signalled four instead of four byes. He takes a single next ball and then whips out that famous sword celebration of his. India now need 69 runs to avoid the follow-on.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:43 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: THE SECOND SESSION IS UNDERWAY!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: We have some cricket at last. Mitchell Starc is bowling the first over of the session, the 50th over of the innings, and Jadeja is on strike. He is batting on 41 off 77, Nitish Kumar Reddy on seven off 20.
India 167/6 in 49 overs, need 79 to avoid follow-on
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:30 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Covers have been folded up but...
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: All looking seemingly good for now but then there is some rain bubbling along the coast on the radar. Anyhow, the two Richards, Illingworth and Kettleborough the on-field umpires, have walked out to do the inspection.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:19 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Inspection scheduled at 9.30am IST
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: The rain has died out but that was a real downpour. Some puddles were wiped off the covers before the pegs were removed to take them out. We are hearing that there will be an inspection in about 10 minutes.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:08 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Heavy rains and the start of the second session is delayed
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: So it was raining during the Lunch break, then it reduced around the time that we were supposed to start the second session and the covers were being taken off. But now the rain has returned and it is a proper downpour. So, we are officially into the 10th rain-break in just these last two days.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:59 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Questions for Australia to answer now
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: This injury to Josh Hazlewood has put up some proper questions for Australia answer, starting with whether it is wise for them to enforce a follow-on.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:48 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Josh Hazlewood could be out of this Test
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Josh Hazlewood will be taken for scans to assess his injury, a Cricket Australia spokesperson has said.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:18 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: LUNCH! India 167/6, trail by 278 runs
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Well a better session than what was anticipated for India. Just two wickets fell in it and the partnership between Jadeja and Reddy has reached 25 in 39 balls. Jadeja has looked very good indeed, he is on 41 off 77, Reddy on seven off 20.
India need to get to a score of 246 to avoid the follow-on, they are 79 runs away from it.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:17 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: India need 85 runs to avoid the follow-on
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: It has been a lively start from Nitish Kumar Reddy, he hit a boundary off that over from Lyon in which Rahul but he has also been beaten a couple of times by Cummins. The ball is old and it is clearly now giving lesser to the pacers, Cummins is hitting the deck hard. Jadeja on 37 off 71, Reddy on five off 14.
India 161/6
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:50 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: OUT! SMITH WITH A BLINDER TO DISMISS RAHUL!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Redemption and them some for Steve SmithNathan Lyon strikes with the biggest wicket of them all. Length ball that Rahul tries to punch away, it takes his edge and Smith flies to his right to take a one-handed beauty of a catch. Well it would have taken something special to dismiss Rahul today and that is exactly what it was. Smith was the lone slip fielder, he moved early when he saw Rahul shaping up for the shot and timed his dive perfectly. Just virtuoso stuff from the former Australia captain.
Rahul c Smith b Lyon 84 (139)
India 141/6 in 43 overs
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:34 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Rahul into the 80s
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: And he has gone from 79 to 80 with a little bit of luck there. Starc's second ball of the 40th is a length ball that spits up at the batter. Rahul jumps to fend at it, the ball hits the sticker part of the bat, bounces behind him and just past the off stump. He takes a single third ball, Jadeja with a quick single off the fifth ball and then Rahul takes two off the last.
Rahul is on 82 off 129, Jadeja on 25 off 53.
India 136/5 in 40 overs, trail by 309 runs
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:25 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Partnership crosses 50!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: The ball is more than 30 overs old, and, as was the case with the Australian innings, the batters are looking slightly more settled now. Well, Rahul was always looking settled, but so is Jadeja now. The partnership between the pair has reached 56 now off 82 balls. Meanwhile, Starc is back in the attack with a change of ends.
India 130/5 in 37 overs, trail by 315
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:11 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: 7 runs off Cummins' over
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: The Australian captain brings himself on for the 33rd over, replacing Marsh. Rahul drives the first ball straight back past Cummins. Absolutely gorgeous shot but then it heaps a random stack of sawdust behind the bowler and doesn't go the boundary! The batters run two. Cummins's third ball is short and angled into Rahul, it goes off his gloves fine to the boundary, Then a single off the second last ball and Jadeja leaves the last ball. Rahul has moved to 75 off 115, Jadeja on 10 off 25.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:04 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: A four for Jadeja!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Jadeja sweeps Lyon powerfully and gets a boundary to his name. Jadeja has got to 10 off 24, Rahul at the other end on 68 off 110.
India 109/5 in 32 overs
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:56 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: The players are back!
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: All right it's nice and sunny for now. Marsh completes his over with a low full toss, Rahul drives straight back and onto the stumps at the non-striker's end. Rahul on 68 off 110, Jadeja on six off 18.
India 105/5 in 31 overs, trail by 340 runs
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:49 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Indian batters in the nets
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli have been in the nets for hours and hours today. There is a very good chance that India will have to bat again soon, it will take a mammoth partnership to avoid a follow-on and Australia will most probably enforce it. A draw is the best possible result now for India and it is paramount that their top order, and not just KL Rahul, stay in the middle.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:43 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: The rain clearing up already
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Well it's gone already. The ground staff stayed out there throughout. The showers weren't heavy and they have gone now. Blue skies up there, even. Expect a quick resumption now.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:33 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: AND THEY ARE OFF! The rain comes as expected...
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Well considering how the forecast was yesterday, we are quite lucky that we had more than an hour of consistent cricket in the first session today. Rahul had to contend with six rain breaks yesterday while he was batting, and he came back and hit the restart button quite successfully every time. He wil have to do that again today and be guarded against playing that loose shot that almost sent him back off the very first ball of the day. But what an innings this has been from him, doing something that the rest of the Indian top four seem to have decided to not do any more in Test cricket which is dig in and get settled. He is on 68 off 109 as he runs off, Ravindra Jadeja batting for the first time in this series on six off 18. Mitch Marsh will bowl the last ball of his second over whenever play resumes.
India 105/5, trail by 340 runs
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:30 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: KL Rahul's moment
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: He has been all class today. Quite extraordinary to think that the only reason he is playing as an opener, indeed he is playing at all, is that Rohit didn't travel for the first Test. He has pretty much looked the only Indian batter with any answers at all against the Aussie pacers consistently in this series.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:28 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: India drag themselves past 100
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Rahul takes a single off the last ball of that over from Marsh and that takes India into three figures for the loss of five wickets, something that has become quite a familiar sight for them in recent Tests. Rahul on 64 off 102 balls, Jadeja on five off 14.
India 100/5, trail by 345 runs
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:24 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Mitchell Marsh from the other end after drinks
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Just two runs off that first over from Nathan Lyon and now it's the flying bison from the other end. Marsh's nickname may have been permanently evolved now thanks to his screamer to dismiss Shubman Gill yesterday. Can he get a bonus wicket or two for Australia here? KL Rahul on 62 off 98, Jadeja on four off 13.
India 96/5 in 28 overs
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:18 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Josh Hazlewood leaves the field
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Josh Hazlewood has walked off quite slowly off the field after that drinks break. Nathan Lyon to bowl the first over of spin today now. Ravindra Jadeja on strike.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:15 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Drinks in the first session
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: KL Rahul is on 61 off 95 balls, Ravindra Jadeja at the other end on three off eight. Australia physio Nick Jones can be seen talking to Hazlewood in that break. Cummins and Smith in the chat as well. Hazlewood did not look fit at all in that first over of his.
- Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:08 AM
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Rahul welcomes Hazlewood with a four
India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Now then, Hazlewood was off the field thus far and walked in only last over. Now he comes in and starts off by bowling an absolute dolly, short and wide outside off. Rahul smashes it offside to the boundary. Hazlewood had missed the second Test due to a niggle, wonder if that is having any effect here.