After 18 overs,Australia 72/0 ( Marcus Harris 31 , David Warner 36)
Pant chirps behind the stumps in English, "Slightly fuller Washi". He usually does this in hindi but seems wants to get into the head of the Australian batsmen. Harris plays a fine late cut for four in the over. Saini looked very uncomfortable while chasing the ball in the over, so did Warner while coming back for a three.
FOUR! Top shot from Harris, plays it very late for four runs to third man off Sundar.
After 17 overs,Australia 68/0 ( Marcus Harris 27 , David Warner 36)
Change of ends for Thakur, he is now bowling from the same end Siraj was bowling. Harris on the back foot cut Thakur to gully. He looked very comfortable there on back foot, had a lot of time. The next ball beats the outside edge of Harris.
After 16 overs,Australia 65/0 ( Marcus Harris 27, David Warner 33)
Washington Sundar back into the attack. Nice loppy outside the off stump line delivery, turning away from Harris as he stretched forward to play it through cover but missed it completely, good take from Pant behind. Sundar looked on the money in that over. Just 2 off it.
After 15 overs,Australia 63/0 ( Marcus Harris 26 , David Warner 32)
Siraj continues. Warner taps the first ball on the leg side and steals a single. Good news from India's point of view, Saini on the field. Better over from Siraj. Just that one run in the over.
After 14 overs,Australia 62/0 ( Marcus Harris 26 , David Warner 31)
Shardul Thakur, right-arm fast medium, comes into the attack for the first time in the second innings. One run off the first ball by Warner. Good lines from Thakur. Harris with an attempted hook on the last ball, did not come off. Just 1 from the over.
After 13 overs,Australia 61/0 ( Marcus Harris 26 , David Warner 30)
Siraj continues, another weak delivery and another boundary shot. Harris beinf gifted these loose balls every now and then. The lead continues to grow quickly for Australia. Just the right start for them on Day 4.
Australia’s average opening stand so far for this series is 21.00.
FOUR! Fuller and another front foot drive from Harris for four runs through extra cover.
FOUR! Bit too short and wide from Siraj and Harris cuts it away for four runs again
India vs Australia 2020-21 Live score and latest update of 4th Test at Brisbane: Siraj continues. Warner taps the first ball on the leg side and steals a single. Good news from India's point of view, Saini on the field. Better over from Siraj. Just that one run in the over.
Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur, in just his second Test, put on 123 runs for the seventh wicket -- a record for India at the Gabba -- taking their team from a precarious 186 for seven to 309 before Thakur was bowled by Pat Cummins for an entertaining 67.
All-rounder Sundar, on debut, batted well with the tail until he guided a Mitchell Starc short ball to Cameron Green in the gully to fall for 62.
By the time Mohammad Siraj was bowled by Josh Hazlewood, giving him figures of 5-57, India had reached 336, only 33 runs behind Australia's first innings total of 369.
Australian openers Marcus Harris and David Warner survived six testing overs as Australia finished the third day on 21 without loss, a lead of 54 runs with all 10 second innings wickets intact.
Without Sundar and Thakur, India would have been in far greater trouble against an Australia side who must win the match to regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with the four-match series locked at 1-1.
The two smashed the previous seventh-wicket record for India at the Gabba of 58, set by Kapil Dev and Manoj Prabhakar in 1991.
Thakur said he used some words coach Ravi Shastri said to him before he played a match in the ODI series as inspiration.
"He said if you perform in this one today you will be rewarded and people will love you for your performance -- that one thing was on my mind," he said.
"That was my biggest positive and keeping those things in my mind, I just kept playing."
Thakur said he and Sundar worked well with each other to make sure they kept their concentration.
"If someone was losing focus or playing a loose shot we would immediately come together and say let's get back to normal and play the basics," he said.
By contrast, India's top-order batsmen all squandered chances to score heavily, with all but Shubman Gill getting starts but all except Cheteshwar Pujara falling to rash shots.
Defiant stand
The visitors began the extended morning session on 62 for two, with Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane at the crease.
Both men looked to keep the scoreboard ticking over, in contrast to Saturday afternoon, where they were more intent on survival.
They saw off Starc and Cummins but Hazlewood was introduced into the attack and produced a brilliant over which led to Pujara's downfall.
Hazlewood had Pujara in trouble when a short ball followed him as he tried to evade it, the ball hitting his glove and falling just short of Cameron Green in the gully.
But two deliveries later Hazlewood got a ball to angle in, then straighten slightly to catch the outside edge of Pujara's bat and Australia's captain and wicketkeeper Tim Paine took a routine catch.
Rahane and Mayank Agarwal steadied the ship but with the lunch break in sight, Rahane couldn't resist playing at a wide ball from left-arm paceman Starc angling across his body and edged a comfortable catch to Matthew Wade at fourth slip.
The Indian captain, on 37, threw his head back in disgust at the manner of his dismissal before trudging off.
The Indians began the second session at 161 for four with the dangerous Agarwal and Rishabh Pant at the crease.
However, like Rahane, both Agarwal and Pant fell to injudicious shots.
Agarwal slashed at a wide delivery from Cummins' second ball after the resumption to fall for 38, caught at second slip by Steve Smith.
Then to compound India's problems, Pant did the same to Hazlewood, only to be caught in the gully by Green for 23.
At that stage Australia were in command of the Test but Sundar, playing his first Test, and Thakur, in his second, had other ideas and defied the bowling attack with a mixture of solid defence and attractive stroke making.
Hazlewood conceded Australia could have done better during their partnership.
"We probably didn't execute as well as we could have during that period," he said.
"We created a few half chances and on any other day we take those.
"But credit to those two guys, they batted beautifully."
With inputs from AFP
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