Prasidh continues and bowls to Labuschagne.
Labuschagne punches nicely down the ground. The ball beats mid-off and Australia runs two.
FOUR. Prasidh bowls on Labuschagne’s pads and the Australian whips the ball through mid-wicket and two the rope. A great shot from Labuschagne.
Prasidh bowls short and Labuschagne evades it.
A defensive shot to a straight ball gets no run.
A short ball hits Labuschagne in the forearm. The Aussie batter was trying to get his bat out of the way, but that ball bounced sharply and clipped him.
Labuschagne shakes it off and defends the final ball of the over.
Six runs off the over. Australia needs 115 runs for victory.
Siraj bowls to Khawaja who defends the first ball off the back foot.
The second ball is punched through point for a single.
Siraj bowls a big in-swing ball to Labuschagne who defends on the front foot.
The fourth ball of the over is outside off stump and left.
BYE. Unlucky for India. The ball from Siraj was a little short, but bounced very high. Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant got a glove on it to slow it down. Australia get a run.
BEATEN. The final ball of the over is a beauty. It seams away and beats Khawaja’s outside edge.
Two runs off the over. Australia needs 121 runs to win.
Marnus Labuschagne faces the final ball from the Prasidh over.
Four runs off the over. Australia needs 123 runs to win.
There is the first wicket for India.
Konstas tried to smash Prasidh over the boundary rope, but he just hits the ball high in the air.
Washington Sundah at mid-off takes a simple catch.
Konstas is out for 22 of 17 balls.
MISS. Konstas goes for the big slog and that ball just flashes over the off stump. Good ball from Prasidh to start the over.
Konstas gets a ball on his pads and he whips it to deep square for two runs.
A straighter ball from Prasidh is defended for no run.
Prasidh bowls and it is on Konstas’s hip. The teenager tucks it to deep square for two more runs.
Siraj comes in Konstas. Konstas steps down the wicket and tries to hit over cover, but the ball beats the outside edge.
FOUR. Siraj bowls on the pads and Konstas works it to fine leg. MISFIELD. Washington Sundar mucks up the fielding and it hits the rope.
FOUR. Another ball on the pads and Konstas whacks through square leg for four runs.
Siraj bowls outside off and Konstas goes for the cut shot, but misses. Rishabh Pant collects the ball at wicketkeeper.
Konstas hits a back foot punch to cover and takes a single.
Usman Khawaja faces the final ball and leaves outside off stump.
Eight runs off the over. Australia needs 127 runs to win.
In just his third Test, Prasidh Krishna has been given the second over.
He will start around the wicket to Usman Khawaja.
Prasidh bowls short and Khawaja hooks, the ball goes along the ground to fine leg for a single.
Konstas is on strike and works a ball off his hip to deep square leg for a single.
Prasidh bowls fuller and outside off to Khawaja. The Australia goes for a drive but miscues to mid-wicket for no run.
The fourth ball of the over is blocked on the back foot. Konstas screams “YES” and Australia takes a quick single.
TWO WIDES. Prasidh bowls way down leg side and it beats Pant. There is a deep fine leg who cuts it off. Three runs for Australia.
FOUR BYES. Prasidh bowls back of a length and that ball has bounced over the head of Konstas, and Pant, and has gone for four byes.
The final ball of the over is pulled by Konstas through mid-wicket. It won’t make the rope, but Australia will get three.
13 runs off the over. Australia needs 136 runs for victory.
With Jasprit Bumrah off the field, Mohammed Siraj will bowl the first ball to Sam Konstas.
The ball is just outside off stump and Konstas leaves. That was a tight leave.
The second ball of the innings is down the leg side for no run.
FOUR WIDES. Siraj bowls way down leg and it beats wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant. Five runs for Australia.
Runs off the bat. Konstas plays with a vertical bat on the front foot and it goes past backward point for a single.
Usman Khawaja is on strike.
PULL SHOT. Khawaja goes for it and hits it high to the vacant deep square leg region. Australia run two.
Khawaja then walks down the wicket and punches to mid-off for a quick single.
FOUR. Konstas charges and slaps Siraj over cover and to the rope.
13 runs off the first over. Australia needs 149 runs to win.
It comes down to one session.
If Australia score 162 runs they will win the series 3-1 and regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
If India takes 10 wickets, the series is tied and they retain the trophy.
Jasprit Bumrah is not on the field. A massive development in this Test match.
Virat Kohli is speaking to the team ahead of this bowling effort and Jasprit Bumrah appears to still be in the sheds.
So there you go. It seems he won’t be opening the bowling at the very least.
So can Bumrah open the bowling or not???
– Qrious
Jasprit Bumrah looked limited with the bat and came out one spot later than he normally would.
If he does bowl and bowl well it feels like a minor miracle, but regardless of if he’s 100 per cent, 70 per cent or not bowling at all, Australia can’t afford to relax either way because this pitch is a minefield.
Scott Boland clean bowls a wildly slogging Jasprit Bumrah and takes his sixth wicket for the innings and 10th for the match.
India is all out for 157, a lead of 161. It doesn’t sound like much, but from what we’ve seen this morning, batting on this pitch is looking no easier today than it has for the past two days.
The lead is 160 and I wouldn’t expect it to grow much bigger unless Bumrah gets a hold of some.
Krishna’s off the mark as he defends to mid-off and Bumrah calls him through. Every single run on this pitch is invaluable. No time for farming the strike.
Mohammed Siraj hangs the bat out and edges through to first slip where Usman Khawaja takes a catch down low. There was a little bobble but it went in.
And Scott Boland has his first five-wicket haul since taking 6-7 in his MCG Ashes debut.
Pat Cummins is threatening to take his five-wicket haul away from him.
Boland strays down leg to Siraj, who can’t get any bat on it.
Bumrah’s go is swinging for the fences. That’s not always easy to do with a crook back, so let’s see what he can do now.
Oh, he doesn’t look healthy. He clears some room and shapes to slog, but can’t really launch, just bunting it back to the bowler.
Whoosh! He swings like a madman at a short one and misses out. I think I could hear his lumbar vertebrae crying out.
Cummins goes wider and angles in, seaming in further and castling him through the gate.
Captain Jasprit Bumrah comes out to bat. Let’s see how this goes.
Siraj edges to gully and they sneak through for a single on the ricochet off Beau Webster. Good running from Washington.
Another ball rears up at Washington and finds the shoulder of the bat. It would have been snaffled by a silly point, but no-one is under the helmet because the length balls are doing the damage. And the Aussies are trying to keep the run-scoring to a minimum.
Another one angles in and seams away. Everything outside the left-hander’s off stump is impossible to play now.
Just about every delivery is a play and miss from Washington right now. This bowl is doing too much actually. The batters can barely lay anything on it.
Boland is slowly bringing his line closer and he’s threatening the off stump now. Good grief.
Another dot, and that’s a maiden as Washington picks out Sam Konstas in front of square leg. So Mohammed Siraj will have to face at least one ball to start the next over.