India's batting crumbled after tea as Scott Boland claimed three wickets, leaving the team reeling at 4-78.
Scott Boland removed India 's top three batters after tea, after star bowler Jasprit Bumrah left the ground with a mystery injury. Australia was dismissed for 181, four runs short of India 's first-inning total, on the stroke of tea.He angles in and finds Jadeja's pad. There's an appeal for LBW, but it was going down leg for sure.
Debutant Beau Webster adds his first Test wicket to his first-innings half-century as SHubman Gill charges, swings for the fences, gets a thin inside edge and Alex Carey takes a superb catch diving away to his left. India is 4-78 and playing some bizarre cricket. I understand trying to take the game on, but this is wild. The batters are trying to hit everything to the rope.Big shout for LBW but not out. Cummins doesn't review. Looked like it pitched in line, but too high.Cummins pitches on the pads and Rishabh whips away over the leg side. That's a lovely shot by a batter who looks like he's batting without a thought in his mind. Australia moves the leg side back and Rishabh drops short and takes two. Smart batting. Not particularly brave field placements.SIX. Pant will not die wondering today. He skips down the wicket and thumps a cross-bat shot over long-on for a maximum. BEATEN. Boland follows up with a great ball that seams away from Pant, who tries to defend. DEFEND? Put that shot away Rishabh. BEATEN and MISS. Pant tries the loft, reverse, over the top, falling shot. It is the same shot that was decried as 'stupid' by Sunil Gavaskar in Melbourne.And Virat Kohli has again been dismissed, caught behind.The edge is hit and Steve Smith takes the catch at second slip.. Shubman Gill gets a shorter ball outside off stump and he nails a lovely back foot drive through cover and to the rope.BEATEN . This time Cummins gets the ball to seam away and flash past the outside edge. The last two ball have been unplayable.Boland bowls to Gill, who defends and gets an inside edge onto the pad. India are able to scamper for a ru
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