Australia needed a perfect day on day four to force anything to happen.

However, a Josh Hazlewood injury and a Steve Smith drop let India off the hook.

Here’s Dean Bilton’s analysis from day four.

And if they are, who are they going to be smiling on?

The biggest take away for Australia yesterday, aside from being forced into in a position where winning this Test is nigh on impossible, is that they may have lost Josh Hazlewood for the rest of the series.

The injury-plagued quick suffered a calf injury – described by Cricket Australia as “calf awareness” during the warm up yesterday.

Calf awareness, of course, is something any person over the age of 30 would be aware of as that feeling they get after running, I imagine.

Regardless, it could be sufficiently serious to rule the New South Welshman out of the squad.

Australia has a ready made replacement in Scott Boland, but it’s a bitter blow for Hazlewood, whose body is really letting him down of late during the rigours of Test cricket.

Plenty, as it happened, with India succeeding in passing the follow on target in dramatic fashion with just one wicket in hand.

It was a superb effort from Akash Deep and Jasprit Bumrah to withstand Australia’s flagging bowling attack.

You can re-live the entire day by checking the wrap and the blog here.

Alternatively, you can check out the five quick hits here.

It’s not looking overly promising, to be honest.

Cloudy. High chance of showers, most likely in the late morning and afternoon. The chance of a thunderstorm, possibly severe. Light winds becoming east to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h in the middle of the day then tending south to southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h in the late afternoon.

But look, we live in hope.

It is, it has to be said, disgustingly humid out there at the moment.

The Bureau tells me that it’s 28 degrees, feels like 33, and has 78 per cent humidity.

Makes Sarfaraz Khan going on a lap of the Gabba outfield look like abject torture. That is not a natural runner.

It promises to be another draining day for whoever finds themselves in the field, that’s for sure.

Hello and welcome to the final day of the Gabba Test.

While I was making my way in today I was thinking about how to summarise what we are about to see today, and I struggled.

There are simply so many variables.

Can this 10th wicket pair bash off a few more runs? Will the Indian bowlers – well rested by now – rip through Australia? Will Australia’s batters settle in and have a glorified net session? If Australia does have to bowl again – surely not by choice given the injury crisis that appears to have engulfed the team, will there be enough time for India to do the unthinkable? Above all else, is the weather going to hold off long enough for any of the above to take place?

Still plenty of intrigue at the Gabba today – and myself, Simon Smale and my colleague Jon Healy are here to tell you all about it, so welcome to the blog and we’re glad to have you with us.