Aussie Cricket

[NTA]

@mariner4life to be fair to @Donsteppa Watson never got himself in that position - he would have had the front foot down the pitch.

India losing regular wickets - now 156/5 and will be hoping their hero Ashwin stays there for a couple of hours. Tea imminent, India 156/5

[NTA]

Lyon has 6 as India are now 188/8 - last 10 overs have been 18/3

Opener Rahul is inching toward a ton, but might run out of partners.

[NTA]

But, as he does start to run out of partners, he goes for a big one and fluffs it. Lyon with 7 now.

[NTA]

8 for Lyon. India down for under 200 again.

Now to see if we've got our shit together.

[NTA]

Aussie finish the day with 40 on the board and 10 wickets in hand.

[barbarian]

0/40 at stumps. Pretty much the perfect day, though I expect Ashwin to cause us some trouble in the next few days.

We'll want to get a big lead as batting 4th on this will be a nightmare.

[Virgil]

Some great stats to digest already.

IND v AUS

Lyon's 8 for 50 - best by a visiting bowler in India

A statistical breakdown of Nathan Lyon's record against India's top order

[mimic]

Australia with a strike rate of less than 2 and over.. very UnAustralian

[NTA]

Yep. They're finding it tough with a bit of the rough for Ashwin to work in, though you have to wonder why Warner didn't just pad it away and have a go at them for negative bowling.

Renshaw might not be clobbering the fuck out of it, but that's not what we need right now. Bat for two days and then get at them on a deteriorating wicket is more important.

Time for Smarsh to earn his spot

[barbarian]

This is compelling.

Pitch looks very hard to bat on, and the Indians have bowled really well. We need a lead of 50+ at least, but not sure how likely that is.

[NTA]

You know its a tense game when you see yourself in the lead by 5 runs and are relieved.

[NTA]

SMarsh chips to midwicket with the lead at 31. Need a quickfire 60 from Starc and Wade to finally live up to this bullshit that he's in the team for his batting.

[Donsteppa]

If Australia can scratch out a 100 run first innings lead I suspect the Indian top order will mentally shoulder arms to a straight one (again)....

[mariner4life]

Jadeja gets 6, and the lead is 87. Another really good test match. Pitch has all sorts of bombs in it.

[NTA]

This is going to be pulsating. There is good seam from one end and good spin from another. Starc can rough it up for Lyon, and see if we can get the same kind of penetration as before.

Still going to be a right gash to bat last on

[Donsteppa]

Get Lyon and O'Keefe on now... Starc and Hazelwood (and Wade) are trying to give the lead up by lunch.

[NTA]

And then The Hoff strikes!

[NTA]

I think we're going to lose this one

Would suggest our paceman, despite not doing huge workloads, are staring to get a bit frustrated, and Pujara has found some calm amidst a difficult series.

Short of SOK and Lyon repeating some heroics, we're looking at a chase of maybe 150 at this rate, and that's going to be extremely difficult when India get their tails up.

[Chris B.]

In the balance now. If either team wins the next couple of hours convincingly it will go a long way to deciding the match.

Don't think a 150 lead will be enough for India - despite the turn Lyons is getting.

[NTA]

Holy fuck - Kohli given out LBW again to a call made on veddy veddy fine margins. Shee-it India is about to shoot DRS into the sun I bet.