IND vs AUS

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.

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.

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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.

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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!

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Just stick to our methods for longer periods, we went away from it especially in the second innings in the last game. Cummins and Warner are replaced by Cameron Green and Mitchell Starc. KL Rahul has given way to Shubman Gill and Mohammed Shami has been rested and he is being replaced by Umesh Yadav. India also decided to rest pace bowler Mohammed Shami, bringing in Umesh Yadav for the game. IND vs AUS LIVE: The ball spins away from the bat and wicketkeeper Alex Carey removes the bails in a flash. Starc got Rohit to nick the first delivery of the match to wicketkeeper Alex Carey. Rohit decided to take the aggressive route against Kuhnemann too but got stumped. Shubmna Gill looks to push forward and defend. Slow good length delivery on off stump. Pujara rocks back to cut but fails to connect and the ball hits the stumps. IND vs AUS LIVE: WICKET!

Trouble for the batters on this pitch. Since spin has come into the game in the 6th over India has lost three wickets. The ball is spinning sharply.

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

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The Indian superstar called for a desperate review before walking back to the sheds. Later in the same over, Starc swung a delivery back into Sharma’s pads, with the Australians appealing for LBW. Thankfully it was third time lucky for the Australians — spinner Matthew Kuhnemann was introduced in the sixth over and immediately had an impact, removing Sharma for 12. Nathan Lyon’s introduction brought about another breakthrough, albeit in farcical scenes — the Australian off-spinner got a delivery to keep low and turn sideways, bowling Chesteshwar Pujara for 1. Lyon thought he had another scalp after trapping Ravindra Jadeja on the pads for 4, but a review showed there was a thin inside edge. India will be aware that someone like Smith somewhere down the line in this series will come good.” His concentration levels seem far higher, and you just have to look at his batting average as captain. There hasn’t been too many times in my career where I’ve actually come off and just been bedazzled by what I’ve done. “It is outstanding. I’m looking forward to it.” Umpire Nitin Menon shook his head, and Australia elected not to call for a review — but replays showed a small spike on Ultraedge. India had lost 5-18 in about half an hour.

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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.