India vs Australia

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.

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.

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"That's not good enough. "They have not prepared that properly," Julian said. "That was mayhem," Waugh said on Fox Cricket.

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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.

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.

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.

Indore: Australia dominated the first day of the third test match against India with Peter Handscomb on seven runs while Cameron Green on six runs, ...

Ravindra Jadeja continues his top-form since the comeback as he picked four wickets in his spell on first day. India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was promoted to bat up the order. He was adjudged leg-before wicket but reviewed the decision to survive a close call against Lyon but played a loose shot to gift his wicket on the very next ball. The spinner was on song, bowling beautifully on a pitch that offered turn and bounce. India was off to a quick start with the openers finding boundaries regularly, racing to 26/0 at the end of five overs. Australian spin attack dominated the day’s play as hosts fell prey to the plans.

Australia bundle out India for 109 and bat resolutely to reach 156-4 on a turning pitch in Indore; Matt Kuhnemann (5-16) and Nathan Lyon (3-35) engineer ...

"The pitch was not up to Test standard, I think that's a fair thing to say. "You're allowed to have a four or five day Test match! Nathan Lyon (3-35) then bowled Cheteshwar Pujara for one as the ball started turning sharply, with Ravindra Jadeja caught at cover for four.

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[@FoxCricket] [pic.twitter.com/36zZQUFpw9] [March 1, 2023] “This is why I’ve got a problem with these conditions. That’s the sort of turn you’d expect day three. [https://t.co/Sdxso3WyhT] [pic.twitter.com/f5n5fU8uqd] [March 1, 2023] [#INDvAUS] [March 1, 2023] [#IndvsAus] [March 1, 2023] Menon didn't budge and turned down the appeal. No review was used. Menon denied Australia a wicket. Aussies didn't use the review. Day one, day two should be about batting," Hayden said. “4.8 degrees, that’s massive turn.

Sharp turn, very variable bounce and the ball stopping and coming in the first hour of a Test is not a good look. This was not like Nagpur or Delhi, ...

Ravichandran Ashwin, perhaps eager to stamp himself on the game, was a touch too quick through the air and did not attack the stumps often enough, ending the day with 16 wicketless overs. Very rarely does this Indian team get in wrong in multiple aspects of the game on a single day. Kohli got to 22, off 52 balls, when he made his first mistake, looking to work the ball to leg against the off spin of Todd Murphy. A classic had been taken as the base and overthought to the extent that the result was unpalatable. "Maybe because of the moisture, the ball turned sharply in the morning. By now the ball was breaking sharply and keeping low often enough for Cheteshwar