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END OF FIRST SESSION: Australia 15/0. Need 75 more runs.

Australia 15/0 after 4 overs: Burns in some discomfort after a hit earlier from Bumrah. Wade gets another boundary.

Australia 8/0 after 3 overs: Wade is in semi-T20 mode. Another boundary for him that over as Umesh goes wide.

Australia 4/0 after 2 overs: Bumrah with a typically good maiden over. A close call for caught behind as he squares up Burns.

Bumrah time... can he dent Australia’s batting a bit?

Australia 4/0 after 1 over

Australia 4/0 as Wade hits a four but at least someone is optimistic.

Shami unlikely to bowl today... Wade on strike, Umesh to have a go.

Right then, surely no more twists and turns in this Test match? Time for Australia’s innings:

Innings break: What an astonishing morning of Test cricket.

INDIA’S INNINGS IS OVER: Shami retires hurt. India’s innings ends on 36/9 – the lead is 89. Australia need 90 runs to win.

Small joys....

OUCH! Shami gets hit on the forearms by a nasty short ball from Cummins. A break in play.

India’s lowest Test total of all time: 42 against England in 1974.

India 36/9 after 21 overs: Umesh Yadav pulls one behind the stumps for 4! The 42 dream gets closer.

WICKET: VIHARI GONE! Hazlewood has FIVE! India 31/9.

Umesh Yadav denies Josh Hazlewood a hat-trick. Best moment of the morning for India, to be honest.

WICKET! HAZLEWOOD IS ON A HAT-TRICK!!!! Ashwin is giving out caught behind first ball and there is a faint nick on review. NOTHING GOING INDIA’S WAY. India 26/8, that’s 200 Test wickets for Hazlewood.

WICKET! As if Australia have not done enough damage by bowling great deliveries, Wriddhiman Saha throws his wicket away by flicking a ball straight to midwicket. Hazlewood has another. India 26/7.

India 26/6 after 18 overs: Another probing over from Cummins but Vihari is leaving the ball well. Helped himself to a couple of runs through cover.

Here’s a look at the Pujara wicket:

India 24/6 after 17 overs: The deliveries that Pujara, Agarwal, Rahane got were just close to unplayable, it’s worth repeating. The Indian collapse should not take anything away from Australia’s bowling.

India 21/6 after 16 overs: In the Virat Kohli-Steve Smith interview, the Indian captain said Hanuma Vihari was one to watch out for this series. How he must be praying for that to come true right now!

IRRELEVANT STAT UPDATE: It matters not one bit here but it is time to officially end our watch for a Virat Kohli 100 in 2020. What a way for his calendar year to come to a close... this is probably his worst nightmare.

India 19/6 after 15 overs: Pardon us for the brevity, we are still reeling from what we are seeing.

WICKET!!!! THIS. IS. INCREDIBLE. Virat Kohli goes driving at a length ball outside off. Cam Green has almost spilled it but after multiple replays the Indian captain is given OUT. INDIA: 19/6

WICKET! JOSH HAZLEWOOD! Two wickets in his first over and this time Rahane edges one behind to Paine. Rahane is out for a duck as well.

WICKET! OH DEAR! Josh Hazlewood is brought in late into the innings than usual but all he needs is one ball to make an impact. A first-ball wicket to dismiss Mayank Agarwal. Sensational from Australia!

WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE: WICKET! Pat Cummins is the man for Australia once again! Cheteshwar Pujara is out for a 8-ball duck and India are in bit of a bother. Lovely delivery to induce the outside edge. India: 15/3

India 15/2 after 10 overs: Patient stuff as you’d expect from the Indian batsmen.

Fastest to 1000 Test runs (Indians)

Player Opponent Venue Days since debut Innings
Kambli v West Indies Mumbai 1y 293d 14
Pujara v Australia Hyderabad  2y 144d 18
Agarwal v Australia Adelaide 1y 357d 19
via ESPNCricinfo

Ashish Magotra: Oh well. Bumrah did his job. Played out that tricky session last night. Pujara comes in next – will he be a little more proactive? Or Will Agarwal try to do that and just let Pujara be?

India 15/2: WICKET! A bouncer that got Bumrah in a tangle, followed by a slower one on the stumps. Cummins does the trick. End of Bumrah’s innings but he did his job as a nightwatchman.

India 13/1 after 7 overs: After a nervy first couple of deliveries, Agarwal flicks one confidently as Starc strays in line. It’s a boundary and it’s also 1000 Test runs for the Indian opener.

Here we go. Mayank Agarwal and Jasprit Bumrah in the middle. Mitch Starc has the ball in hand...

Another excuse for watching this...

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09.10 am: Just how pleasing it was to see Jasprit Bumrah take on the challenge of facing Pat Cummins with the new pink ball last night? He will walk out to bat with Mayank Agarwal today as India look to build on their advantage.

09.05 am: The pitch does not have too much visible wear and tear but there has already been some evidence of variable bounce.

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of day three of the first Test between India and Australia at Adelaide Oval on Saturday.

There were even doubts whether he would play in this match when India might prefer four quicks, but Ashwin Ravichandran bagged four wickets as a dominant India held a 62-run lead at stumps on day two of the Adelaide day-night Test after Australian captain Tim Paine ran out of batting partners.

Paine was left stranded on 73 not out when the Australian innings ended at 191 to trail India’s 244 by 53 runs.

Ashwin had figures of 4/55 while Umesh Yadav took 3/40.

At stumps, India in their second innings were one down for nine with Mayank Agarwal on five and nightwatchman Jasprit Bumrah yet to score. Prithvi Shaw was bowled by Pat Cummins for four.

Fifteen wickets fell on the day which started when Cummins and Mitchell Starc took just 25 deliveries to knock off the final four India batsmen. The Indian bowlers then took over the match, despite sloppy catching.

Video highlights, Adelaide Test, day two: 15 wickets tumble on a day of many thrills and spills