India vs Australia

India: Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, KS Bharat, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav ...

Must say I wasn’t enamoured at all with Australia’s DRS use in the second Test and more of the same so far. Big appeal from the Aussies and there’s a suspicious noise via the on-field microphones. Very first ball, Mitchell Starc with the rock and beating the outside edge of Rohit. Rohit comes down the wicket and is beaten with flight and turn away from the bat, Alex Carey with a simple stumping. Replays of that LBW shout against Rohit have just rolled in too, and the Indian skipper is leading a charmed life. Kuhnemann operating with two slips and he’s on the boil with serious turn on day one.

Mitchell Starc reckons his finger is “good enough” to play five days Test cricket (if we get there). “If I only played when I was at 100 per cent I would ...

It’s wide and over-pitched and the India skipper pounces to crash a cut shot to the boundary. After their crazy capitulation in Delhi, Australia has been pilloried in the press and piled-on by a legion of Test greats who deplored their T20 ‘hit out until you get out’ approach and lemming-like devotion to the sweep shot. “I’m happy with where it’s at and I’ve built up enough of a pain threshold to deal with that stuff over the past 10 or 12 years.” And in worse news for the Australians, replays of a later Starc delivery that ducked between bat and pad show it didn’t catch the edge… Or does he want to take the pace off the ball and slow this torrent of runs to a trickle. Either way he’s back for a third over and Rohit Sharma gives him fresh cause for complaint, casually stepping out to lift Starc’s third ball over long-off to the boundary. The fourth ball stays low and goes under the bat. and too fast for the back up fielder who nutmegs it and has to watch it roll to the boundary. Or perhaps he was making a complaint to the match referee about the standard of umpiring? Pujara made a mess of that, played all over it and when it spun back sharply, it squared him up and went straight through to skittle the stumps. Carey whips off the bails and the Indian skipper is out stumped. 8th over: India 35-2 (Pujara 1, Kohli 1) Matt Kuhnemann to Virat Kohli and the young spinner makes the master batter look a tad foolish!

Good morning and welcome to Indore for the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar series. Australia arrives 0-2 down and without their captain.

Timeline

The ball is turning a mile in Indore, as Australia has India seven-down in a stunning start to the third Test. Follow all the third Test action in our live ...

Down the leg side, Ashwin swishes the bat at it and misses, Carey takes it down low. But it's a bit purpley... Big turn outside off though. BIG APPEAL! Get one on the stumps Mitch, you might have some luck... He only knows one way. Huge slof sweep down on one knee, over the deep square leg boundary for another maximum. By Simon Smale I don't think that's going on to hit the stumps, so they won't review that, the Australians.

CRR: 6.00. Batting, R(B), 4s, 6s, SR. Usman Khawaja*, 2(5), 0, 0, 40. Marnus Labuschagne, 0(2), 0, 0, 0. Bowling, O, M, R, W. Ravichandran Ashwin*, 1, 0, 6 ...

20.2 Jadeja to Khawaja, FOUR, overpitched outside off, Khawaja once more does not try to overhit the drive, he just nicely leans forward and caresses the drive through cover. 20.3 Jadeja to Khawaja, byes, FOUR, uhhh! 19.3 Axar to Khawaja, no run, slower and at the stumps, Khawaja prods forward and defends it back They were too full or a bit short and could not find the perfect line and length on this surface. 20.5 Jadeja to Khawaja, no run, slower and at the stumps, Khawaja pops it back but the ball lands short of Jadeja Also, just having 109 on the board did not help them as the field was spread out and singles were on offer far too easily.

With the Border-Gavaskar Trophy safely in Indian hands, Australia hopes to restore some pride in the third Test at the Holkar Stadium in Indore.

IND vs AUS 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE: Get the live cricket score, ball-by-ball commentary and scorecard updates as India takes on Australia at the Holkar Cricket ...

The areas on either side of the stumps were kept slightly dry, and the line of the stumps was watered and rolled. Smith’s men must be ready for whatever hostilities India might dish out in front of a likely sold-out Holkar Stadium on the first day.-Ayan Acharya Rohit and Shubman Gill batted together in the nets on Tuesday after Gill and KL Rahul had spent significant time batting side by side just a day prior. The first change in the bowling as Smith gives the ball to spinner Matthew Kuhnemann and he strikes in the first over. It’s dry from around a six-meter length to the crease at either end. Delhi was a tough place to employ the sweep. But Australia’s barebones batting and India’s unparalleled home dominance — India has lost only 2 out of 43 Test matches at home in the last 10 years — have rendered it a one-sided fight. A cracking shot over covers to register for the second four on the innings. This is a very overcooked wicket, it is dry and has started to crumble. However, it is a big miss as the replay shows a clear spike as the ball gets a nick, but lucky Rohit survives. Both Rohit and Gill are now dealing with boundaries at the moment with few hit-and-miss in between. He takes the second wicket and sends the other opener back in just two overs.

CRR: 3.31. Batting, R(B), 4s, 6s, SR. Marnus Labuschagne*, 10(33), 0, 0, 30.3. Usman Khawaja, 16(41), 0, 0, 39.02. Bowling, O, M, R, W.

20.2 Jadeja to Khawaja, FOUR, overpitched outside off, Khawaja once more does not try to overhit the drive, he just nicely leans forward and caresses the drive through cover. 20.3 Jadeja to Khawaja, byes, FOUR, uhhh! They were too full or a bit short and could not find the perfect line and length on this surface. 20.4 Jadeja to Khawaja, no run, flatter and at the stumps, Khawaja stays back and keeps it out 20.5 Jadeja to Khawaja, no run, slower and at the stumps, Khawaja pops it back but the ball lands short of Jadeja Also, just having 109 on the board did not help them as the field was spread out and singles were on offer far too easily.

Australia reached 71 for one in their first innings in reply to India's 109 at tea on the opening day of the third Test.

Australia 1st Innings: 71 for 1 in 22 overs (Usman Khawaja 33 batting, Marnus Labuschagne 16 batting; Ravindra Jadeja 1/28). Left-arm spinner Matthew Kuhnemann (5/16) and Nathan Lyon (3/35) starred with the ball for Australia on a pitch that offered vicious turn. Usman Khawaja (33 not out) and Marnus Labuschagne (16 not out) batted cautiously after the early dismissal of Travis Head (9).

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Border Gavaskar Trophy: Usman Khawaja scored 60 runs as Australia took a 47-run lead at Stumps on Day of the third Test at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in ...

“I used the sweep intermittently when I needed to today, did the similar thing last week. "I played to my plans, tried to score when there was an opportunity and kept out the good balls. Steve Smith’s Australia are leading by 47 runs with six wickets left in their first innings.

With this, the visitors currently lead by 47 runs, with Cameron Green (6 off 10) and Peter Handscomb (7 off 36) in the middle. Opting to bat first, India were ...

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From 27/0, India collapsed to 45/5 after winning the toss in Indore and the Virat Kohli-KS Bharat stand did navigate around the safe cells before the ...

He looked in control, looked confident, was assured with the footwork before Todd Murphy, coming around the stumps, got one to spin just enough from the off stump and trapped the right-hander in front for a 52-ball 22. In reply, Australia (156/4) looked much more solid and rode on decent contributions from Usman Khawaja (60), Marnus Labuschagne (31) and Steve Smith (26) to take a decent 47-run lead. Historically, rank-turners (read Pune in 2017 and Mumbai 2004) have backfired for India and a minefield like Indore was certainly not a wise choice. The purchase for Kuhnemann tempted Smith for more spin and he fell for it. The period between the sixth and twelfth over of the innings can well be compared to a Bollywood movie coal-mine scene where explosions happen one after another. Kohli was in the Delhi first-innings zone and hardly put a foot wrong. Rohit looked to work the ball for a single around the leg-side when Steve Smith switched to proactive mode and brought the field up, tempting Rohit to go big against the turn. Kuhnemann picked his first and in the space of three deliveries, he had his second when he found the outside edge of Shubman Gill. The chance presented itself a couple of overs later but Kuhnemann scalped the two Indian openers in just three deliveries to put the hosts on the mat. There was a loud shout for caught-behind, a discussion for DRS but the Aussies didn’t go for it. The only difference between the game and the pitch at Holkar Stadium being the grid of the pitch is littered with more mines than the squares depicting a number, adjacent mines or a blank tile. Indore: The pitch used for the third Test between India and Australia in Indore is clearly a minefield and reminds one of the very famous video game Minesweeper.