India vs Australia, Live Cricket Score, 4th Test at Brisbane, Day 5: Visitors lose third wicket as Cummins removes Rahane

10:05 (IST)

After 60 overs,India 175/3 ( Cheteshwar Pujara 43 , Rishabh Pant (W) 2)

Cummins over the wicket to Pant, and he starts off with a bouncer. Too high. Cummins does well to find an edge off Pant's bat but luckily for the batsman, there's no fielder in the slip cordon to take the catch. The final ball is also a bouncer, Pant plays it well to keep it down and take a single. Right then, next over, it is Pant vs Lyon. 

10:01 (IST)

Edge and it's in the gap between fourth and second slip fielders. Four for Pant. 

10:00 (IST)

After 59 overs,India 175/3 ( Cheteshwar Pujara 43 , Rishabh Pant (W) 2)

Lyon continues and he's keeping it tight. Pujara comes down the track and tries to sneak a single after pushing it to square leg, Pant sends him back and Pujara manages to reach the crease on time. The throw from Pat Cummins is little wayward else this could've been close. Maiden over. Half an hour left for tea, A minimum of 40 overs left.   

09:57 (IST)

After 59 overs,India 175/3 ( Cheteshwar Pujara 43 , Rishabh Pant (W) 2)

Cummins continues. Pant off the mark with a pull which brings up his 1,000th Test run. Next ball short and down the leg, Pant pulls and misses. 15 minutes to tea but Indians continue to play their shots. 

09:53 (IST)

After 58 overs,India 173/3 ( Cheteshwar Pujara 43 , Rishabh Pant (W) 0)

Big inside edge of Pujara flies through right of short leg fielder off Lyon. Pujara collects a four on the last ball. Six off the over. 

09:52 (IST)

FOUR!

09:50 (IST)

After 57 overs,India 167/3 ( Cheteshwar Pujara 37 , Pant 0)

Cummins back on. The second ball to Pujara kept low and it took the batsman by surprise. Paine smashes the bails down with anger as he Pujara completes a third. India have lost Rahane in the process of scoring quickly. 

09:48 (IST)

Pujara has scored his most Test runs against Lyon. (500-plus)

Kohli has scored his most Test runs v Lyon. (410)

ABD has scored his most Test runs v Lyon. (342)

Rahane has scored his most Test runs v Lyon. (331)

Root has scored his most Test runs v Lyon. (322)

Umang Pabari, Cricket statistician

09:48 (IST)
09:48 (IST)

OUT! Rahane gone, short ball, he wanted to angle it away for four to third man, but the ball kissed the outside edge and flew to the keeper. India lose their third wicket. Rahane c Paine b Cummins 24(22)  

09:43 (IST)

After 56 overs,India 163/2 ( Cheteshwar Pujara 34 , Ajinkya Rahane (C) 23)

Rahane goes after Lyon on just the first ball of the new Lyon over and hits him for a six. Intent is there, to chase this down. Aussies appeal for catch but there was no bat involved there. Seven off the over. 

India vs Australia 2020-21 Live score and latest update of 4th Test at Brisbane: Big inside edge of Pujara flies through right of short leg fielder off Lyon. Pujara collects a four on the last ball. Six off the over.

Day 4 report: Mohammed Siraj took his first five-wicket haul in just his third Test as India bowled Australia out for 294 to set up an enthralling final day of the four-match series in Brisbane on Monday.

With the series locked at 1-1, India need 328 runs for victory or to bat all day for a draw to pull off the remarkable feat of retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy despite being severely weakened by injuries and captain Virat Kohli's paternity leave.

Siraj had Josh Hazlewood caught on the boundary to end Australia's innings and return figures of 5-73 as clouds formed over the Gabba. Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill then faced just 11 balls, reaching four without loss, before light rain ended play.

Siraj and fellow quick Shardul Thakur (4-61), playing only his second Test, were exceptional as they kept the Australian scoring rate largely under control while taking wickets at regular intervals.

"It was my dad's dream that I should play for India, that the whole country will watch his son play," said Siraj, whose father died in November.

"How I wish he was here today with me, he would have been very happy. It is thanks to his blessings that I could take five wickets today. I am speechless, I am unable to speak about my performance."

Although most of the Australian batting order got starts, only Steve Smith converted and even he fell for 55 when surprised by a Thakur short ball.

Australia need to win to regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy but, with more rain forecast for Tuesday, India will fancy their chances of surviving for the draw.

Tricky wicket

The highest run-chase to achieve victory at the Gabba is the 236 that Australia scored to beat the West Indies in 1951.

But as India have shown since their disastrous capitulation in the first Test in Adelaide, when they were bowled out for 36, they are never out of the contest.

They came back and won the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, and then batted for more than a day to draw Sydney's third Test.

Smith said off-spinner Nathan Lyon, who is playing his 100th Test and needs three more scalps to reach 400 Test wickets, could play a big role on Tuesday.

"There's a nice crack forming outside the right-handers' off stump that he'll be looking to aim at," Smith said.

"If he hits good areas consistently tomorrow there is certainly no reason why he can't create some chances on a day-five wicket, that's for sure."

"The game's in a nice place for us -- the wicket is starting to play a few tricks," he added.

However, India will feel they can at least save the Test against an Australian attack that looked fatigued in the first innings.

Flying start

India claimed four wickets in the morning session to peg back a flying start by the Australians with David Warner and Marcus Harris taking advantage of some poor bowling.

The Australian openers added 68 runs off 19 overs when, with the score on 89, Harris fell for 38 when he tried to duck a Thakur short ball only for it to graze his glove on the way through to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.

It prompted a mini-collapse as two runs later debutant Washington Sundar trapped Warner lbw for 48, the Australian opener's highest score since his return from a groin strain in the third Test in Sydney.

First innings century-maker Marnus Labuschagne came to the crease and continued to attack, blasting five boundaries on his way to a quickfire 25 before he was straightened up by a Siraj delivery and edged a simple catch to Sharma at second slip.

Siraj, who was expensive in his early overs, then had Matthew Wade caught behind down the leg side for a duck three balls later to leave Australia 123 for four.

Smith and Cameron Green then began to take the game away from the visitors, though both had let-offs.

Smith was dropped at long-off by Siraj on 38 while Green survived a caught and bowled by the same bowler on 14.

But Siraj made amends when he got one to leap into Smith's glove with the former Australian captain on 55, while Thakur accounted for Green, Tim Paine and Nathan Lyon to complete his four-wicket haul.

With inputs from AFP

Updated Date: January 19, 2021 10:03:54 IST

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