Australia at India

Australia is looking to draw the series with victory in cricket's largest stadium, the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Follow all the live scores in our ...

Over-by-over report: Play begins with a huge crowd expected at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Join our team of writers for updates.

The third ball of the over is straight and Head finally gets some willow on one, driving powerfully to mid on but a good dive in the field keeps it to a single. He had five runs from his first 26 balls in Indore but then rattled the sabre to finish with 49 from 53 with half a dozen fours and a marvellous six to get Australia home in style. The fourth ball from Shami starts wide, Khawaja gives it a wider berth and ended up being the widest wide of the series, piercing first and second slip and running away to the third man boundary. Head heaves it off his hip pocket and sends it to the rope. 2nd over: Australia 10-0 (Head 0, Khawaja 4) So sundries outscoring batters so far, with four byes, a leg bye and a wide getting Australia to double-figures in the first over. Head takes a single from the second and Khawaja to swipe a four from the fifth. But the short point fielder had stopped it and as he scurried to collect and throw Khawaja realised the danger and swivelled and lunged for home. he seems to have pulled the trigger again, stepping inside the line to hit Shami past the fielder at mid on and all the way to the boundary. And Head does it again to the last, stepping out and taking it off his toes to punch it through cover. Khawaja had stroked a lovely two and he strolled down three paces to the next ball from Ashwin and nonchalantly rolled the wrists to turn it down legside and set off. Instead, he squeezes on the sixth ball, leaning back to a half-tracker and hammering it to the deep square boundary. Shami put it on a good length and Labuschagne stepped out to meet it but it straightened on him and he’s gone.

PRIME MINISTER: Today is a very busy day, where I'll be here in Ahmedabad, then to Mumbai, and then to Delhi. It's a day of three parts as well, ...

We're great friends, we have over a century of standing side by side during peacetime and during conflict, and I look forward to the announcements next week. In addition, in the United States, I will be having bilateral meetings with President Biden and Prime Minister Sunak. We will be hosting the Malabar operations in Australia for the first time later this year and talking about our security in the Indo-Pacific is an important focus of our relationship. Towards the end of this year, I'm looking forward to an upgrade in the economic relationship between Australia and India, and I'll be having discussions with Prime Minister Modi about that today. One of the things that we discussed was the fact that there's a lot of investment ready as well in Australia to build solar panels in Australia. It's a day of three parts as well, a day where we begin by celebrating the cultural links between Australia and India with a visit for the opening of the fourth cricket test, which is celebrating as well 75 years of test cricket between Australia and India, going back to when Donald Bradman was the captain of the first Australian cricket team at that time.

'Didn't feel they supported me': Khawaja takes aim at coaches, selectors after epic century.

Didn’t really feel like the team really supported me, didn’t feel like the coaching staff and selectors supported me through that journey. Shane Watson – then the vice-captain – was another to be banned from selection for that third Test in Mohali, something he called ‘extremely harsh’. “It was a self-fulfilling prophecy in its own way, because people started saying that, and perception is reality. “I didn’t get support from the people around me at the time. Part of that was due to the so-called ‘Homework-gate’. He added that in the middle years of his career, he felt a lack of support from his teammates and coaches.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese climbed into the cockpit of an Indian light fighter jet on the deck of INS Vikrant during a visit to the aircraft carrier to ...

"I think defence cooperation, particularly in the maritime domain … "It signifies a larger cooperation between India and Australia… is a convergence that India and Australia will seek to build upon in the years to come." In a brief speech he called India a "top-tier security partner" for Australia, telling the gathering that the Indian Ocean was "central to both countries' security and prosperity." Mr Albanese also said there had "never been a busier or more productive time in our defence and security partnership" and that the two nations last year "conducted more exercises, operations and dialogues than ever before." Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has used a landmark visit to India's flagship carrier INS Vikrant to declare that India is a "top tier" defence partner and announce Indian forces will join the massive Talisman Sabre war games in Australia this year.

Analysts say India's increasingly warm relations with the United States have been integral in reshaping ties between New Delhi and Canberra as they all look ...

"Now both India and Australia are aligned with the United States in the Indo-Pacific region. That is higher than what we are doing with Japan or any other regional country." Last December, the Indian and Australian armies also held their first joint drills in India. "An incredible welcome to Ahmedabad, India. This convergence is one factor bringing the two countries closer." Thousands of fans cheered as they went around the stadium before its start.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese works to cement trade deal with India, the Greens want more detail on the Voice to parliament, and Australians are spending ...

[$600 million plan to tighten up rules around dividend imputation](https://www.smh.com.au/link/follow-20170101-p5bywc)that the Coalition argues is a broken promise by the government, reviving the debate over franking credits that contributed to Labor’s 2019 election loss. Read the story [here](https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/teals-split-as-coalition-revives-2019-election-franking-credits-debate-20230309-p5cqog.html). A spectacular morning at the cricket has deepened ties between Australia and India after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on a golden chariot at the fourth Test in Ahmedabad today.