IND vs AUS

With the Border-Gavaskar Trophy safely in Indian hands, Australia hopes to restore some pride in the third Test at the Holkar Stadium in Indore.

IND vs AUS 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE: Get the live cricket score, ball-by-ball commentary and scorecard updates as India takes on Australia at the Holkar Cricket ...

The areas on either side of the stumps were kept slightly dry, and the line of the stumps was watered and rolled. Smith’s men must be ready for whatever hostilities India might dish out in front of a likely sold-out Holkar Stadium on the first day.-Ayan Acharya Rohit and Shubman Gill batted together in the nets on Tuesday after Gill and KL Rahul had spent significant time batting side by side just a day prior. The first change in the bowling as Smith gives the ball to spinner Matthew Kuhnemann and he strikes in the first over. It’s dry from around a six-meter length to the crease at either end. Delhi was a tough place to employ the sweep. But Australia’s barebones batting and India’s unparalleled home dominance — India has lost only 2 out of 43 Test matches at home in the last 10 years — have rendered it a one-sided fight. A cracking shot over covers to register for the second four on the innings. This is a very overcooked wicket, it is dry and has started to crumble. However, it is a big miss as the replay shows a clear spike as the ball gets a nick, but lucky Rohit survives. Both Rohit and Gill are now dealing with boundaries at the moment with few hit-and-miss in between. He takes the second wicket and sends the other opener back in just two overs.

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!