Australia vs India

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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India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat in the third Test against Australia here on Wednesday with young opener Shubman Gill comin.

Leading 2-0 in a four-match series, India are sitting pretty and just need to make one tough decision of choosing between out-of-form K L Rahul and Shubman Gill. If India get to bat on day one, the conditions will be ideal for the likes of Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli to pile on the runs. Since they can't be expected to get runs in the lower order regularly, the onus lies on the top-order. Hopefully we can execute our skills early and out the Indian batters under pressure. India have already taken a 2-0 lead in the four-Test series to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. India openers Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill are at the crease. Steve Smith and his men are making their way to the middle. Australia miss out on a big big wicket. The Indian skipper misses the turn and Alex Carey collects the ball and dislodges the bails to show Rohit the way back to the pavilion. Jadeja takes a review. Jadeja survives a LBW call and loses his wicket on the very next ball. India have already taken a 2-0 lead in the four-Test series to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.Read Less

IND vs AUS Live Score Updates: Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin are at the crease as 7-down India eye recovery against Australia.

- 08:54 (IST)IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Live: Has KL Rahul been dropped?" - 09:43 (IST)IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Live: FOUR!A confident shot from Rohit Sharma! - 09:45 (IST)IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Live: FOUR!A lucky boundary for Shubman Gill! - 09:07 (IST)IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Live: Two changes for AustraliaMitchell Starc is fit to play and Cameron Green has also been roped in. - 10:54 (IST)IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Live: FOUR!A confident shot from KS Bharat. - 11:16 (IST)IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Live: FOUR!A short ball from Nathan Lyon and Axar Patel hit it for a four. - 09:50 (IST)IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Live: FOUR!It was fuller and outside off stump from Mitchell Starc. - 10:29 (IST)IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Live: WICKET!Nathan Lyon strikes again! - 11:40 (IST)IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Live: Lunch on Day 1!That's a dream start for Australia in the third Test. - 10:31 (IST)IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Live: WICKET!Shreyas Iyer is dismissed as played on! - 11:27 (IST)IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Live: WICKET!India are seven down! IND vs AUS, 3rd Test Day 1 Live Updates: India are 84 for 7 at lunch on Day 1 of the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on Wednesday.

'One day Test?' Aussie great unloads on Indian pitch as 'absolute minefield' causes chaos.

That’s the sort of turn you’d expect day three. Hayden said in commentary on Fox Cricket: “This is why I’ve got a problem with these conditions. I was out there doing the pitch (report) with Murali Karthik. In Delhi it was 3.8 degrees, but a whopping 4.8 degrees in Indore. But it was when the spinners entered the fray that things went up to almost unbelievable levels. The first thing we thought was … Day one, day two should be about batting.” “4.8 degrees, that’s massive turn. Some balls turned wildly, while others bounced out of control – and just as many stayed drastically low. [Follow the action here!](https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/india-vs-australia-third-test-team-news-pitch-weather-mitchell-starc-injury-kl-rahul-dropped-reaction-start-time/news-story/b0cb38422ea9eb1440b6d94e5772d762) [All the latest scores, stats and key figures from the third Test](https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/match-centre/TEST2022-230703) [third Test in Indore saw things taken to extremes](https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/india-vs-australia-third-test-team-news-pitch-weather-mitchell-starc-injury-kl-rahul-dropped-reaction-start-time/news-story/b0cb38422ea9eb1440b6d94e5772d762), with the pitch causing major deviations from the opening minutes - and leaving fans and pundits in shock.

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

India vs Australia, 3rd Test Live Score Updates Day 2: India will look to finish off Australia's first innings early as the unpredictable pitch promises ...

Coming into bat, Australia lost Travis Head early but a solid partnership between Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne helped Australia overcome that blow. His bowling partner Nathan Lyon, meanwhile, took care of Chesteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja and Srikar Bharat. Virat Kohli was their top scorer with 22 runs while Umesh Yadav’s late flurry took them just past hundred.