Editor’s note: This is a developing report and is updated throughout the day.
In a series that can probably be remembered for collapses, Australia found themselves on the receiving end of a swift one when they lost six wickets for just eleven runs in the first session of Day 2 of the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
After being comfortably placed an hour into the day at 186/5, they were skittled for 197 in the first innings, giving themselves a lead of 88 runs.
Morning session
Resuming Day 2 on 156/4, Cameron Green and Peter Handscomb survived the first hour in Indore with great ease but once they were dismissed, India ripped through the rest of the order with Umesh Yadav taking three wickets.
Watch, IND v AUS: Umesh Yadav sends the stumps flying twice in a brilliant spell on Day 2 in Indore
R Ashwin, who finished with 3/44, first struck after the drinks break to dismiss Handscomb for 19. The rest was light-work for the pair, then.
In their second innings, India with the opening duo of Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill went into lunch at 13/0. In a rather safe passage of play for the hosts in this match, the session belonged to them.
20 balls and 4 wkts since that tweet. Only 10 runs. Still 10-20 runs to play with. First step towards a miracle... Two more wkts to go though. #IndvAus
— Chetan Narula (@chetannarula) March 2, 2023
Umesh showing why he's the leading wicket-taker among all pace bowlers in Tests in India since 2013. Way he targets the stumps all day long... amazing consistency.
— Swaroop Swaminathan (@arseinho) March 2, 2023
Courtesy : Umya pic.twitter.com/to1xfsk0FB
— mon (@4sacinom) March 2, 2023
The sight of stumps cartwheeling is ❤️ pic.twitter.com/Ru8sPHrg1H
— Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) March 2, 2023
Post-lunch session
Australia fought back to leave India in trouble at 79/4 in their second innings at tea, losing four wickets to spinners Nathan Lyon and Matthew Kuhnemann and managing to score just 66 runs in the session.
In the very first over after the break, Gill was beaten for spin as he tried to hit across the line and was bowled middle stump for five by Nathan Lyon.
Skipper Rohit was then trapped lbw by the spinner Lyon for 12.
Virat Kohli looked to take on Kuhnemann, cutting the spinner for a glorious four, only to be trapped lbw the following ball for 13, sending a hush around the rowdy Indore ground.
Pujara gave the home crowd something to cheer about, reducing the deficit by smashing Kuhnemann for a succession of boundaries.
Lyon though proved a handful, particularly for Ravindra Jadeja, who was out lbw for seven just before the break to leave India reeling.
India were still nine runs behind at the break on a viciously turning pitch in Indore with Cheteshwar Pujara looking assured on 36 and Shreyas Iyer yet to get off the mark.
With inputs from AFP