Australia vs India Day 4 LIVE Score, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 1st Test: Bumrah dismisses Head; AUS loses six wickets v IND

Bumrah returns. Cuts it wide of third for two runs. 

Four to start the over. Head gets down and strikes it through covers. Rotating strike to keep a decent run-rate. Slapped! Gets three. Sundra keeping it tight. Head muscling it though covers for two and one and keeps strike. 

Rana continues. Attacks with a snarky bouncer to Head after getting two past point in the last ball. Sundar at it again. Marsh skips down but drive finds short cover. Slips through diving mid off for another single to end the over. 

Marsh gets just enough on it to miss the hands of Padikkal at midwicket. Punishes the next one for a four on the off side. No direct hit means Head is safe. Sundar to Head. Steps back to cut it away but an inside edge. Marsh straight down and that goes all the way for a six! That’s 50-run stand between the two. 

Rana to start the second session. Head clips it past midwicket for two. Marsh connects well and that’s six. Puts the shorter ball away. Sundar into the attack. Loud shout for LBW but looks like it was all bat. Five off the over. 

Marsh finally off the mark. Drives it past point for three runs. Four. Head pulls it fine for a boundary. Eight runs off Siraj’s over. Last over before Lunch. Bumrah oversteps but bowls a yorker on the next. Three off the over and that’s Lunch. 

Head gets to his fifty with a Four. Uses the height to get it above the keeper all the way to the ropes. Worked to the leg side for three. Bumrah continues. Head flicks into to the gap at deep sqaure leg for two. Bouncer and Head gets nothing on it. Pant leaps to take it. 

Bumrah returns, looking to shake things up. Round the wicket to Head but flicked away for a single. Marsh faces Bumrah. Beaten! But overstepped. Another no ball. Two off the over. 

OUT! Siraj with the breakthrough. Smith looked so solid, A thin edge and Pant does well to catch that. AUS down five wickets. 

Steven Smith c †Pant b Mohammed Siraj 17 (60)

Mitchell Marsh is the new batter in.

Siraj replaces Rana, and that’s four. Head cuts it square, through covers to the fence. Into the 40s. Siraj bowls on the stump line to Smith, who defends it. Five off the over. Sundar continues. Smith with soft hands and that’s just one run this over. 

Starts the over with Four. Rana bowls it full and wide, easy pickings for Head who puts it away. Anticipated the bounce but not entirely. Head lucky there to get away with the ball going over slips. Sundar gives away two. Pushes Smith back into the crease, forcing him to defend. 

Rana to Smith. Punches it through the off side and runs two. Batters finding easy runs here. Four. Head sweeps it outside leg all the way to square fence. Another single and Sundar goes for seven runs this over. 

Rana bowls it short which hits Smith on the pads. India takes the review but replay shows it missing the leg stump. Rana bowling to the stumps now, correcting that line. Two runs. 

Sundar continues. Bounces off the pads but it was off the line. Head takes the single, one leg bye. 

Head beats the diving point fielder to score another boundary. Four. Seven runs off Rana’s over and the batters are starting to settle down here. 

Washington Sundar brought into the attack. Bowling much fuller to Smith who is opting to play defensive shots. Finds a single on the last delivery. 

Rana continues. Plenty of running between the wicket. Smith hit right on the ribs, that’s got to hurt but he is okay to continue. 

Bumrah back. First four of the day! Cracking cover drive and good pace on it to go the ropes. Oversteps and has to bowl the last one again. 

Harshit Rana bowls his first of the innings. Smith looking to pull it away but doesn’t get all of it. On the pads, going down leg. Rana starts with a maiden. 

Siraj to Head, cuts it past point but outfield slows it down. They run four nevertheless. So close! Head edges it back into the pads. Couple of inches off and it could have crashed into the stumps. Next one on the pads again and Siraj is convinced. Review taken. Umpire’s call stays. 

Smith and Head happy to run between the wicket. Bumrah bowling at the off stump and the ball is coming back in just enough. Three off the over. Siraj from the other end. Angling in towards the stumps and Smith does well to defend it. Just one run. 

Siraj bowling a wider line to Head. Switching the line and charging at the wickets now. Head managing to work it away but no run. Maiden. 

Bumrah to Smith. A single off the first and Head is on strike. On the pads but it was going well down leg. Glances it to the leg side for a single and he is off the mark. Last one shaping back into the batter and that’s two off the over. 

Siraj with the ball. OUT! Khawaja looked to pull it away but only got an edge on it. Went high up and Pant called it. Good catch and that’s four down. Siraj gets his second. 

Usman Khawaja c †Pant b Mohammed Siraj 4 (13)

Travis Head comes in. Fuller to the new batter. Defends the last one back to Siraj. 

Bumrah has a few more deliveries left. So, he begins for India and will bowl to new batter, Steve Smith. On the pads and huge shout for lbw! Smith is safe but Bumrah had overstepped. Smith drives it through covers and gets off the mark. Runs three. Khawaja on strike and flicks it behind for a single. 

Australia already three wickets down. Jasprit Bumrah took two and Siraj one as India can definitely catch a whiff of a huge win. But with seven wickets in hand and two days remaining, will the host try and chase this 534-run target? 

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A Sunday turned hot in tune with summer in the Southern hemisphere. And out in the middle, Yashasvi Jaiswal (161) and Virat Kohli (100 n.o.) dished out their own version of heat as India took a firm grip over the first Test here at the Optus Stadium.

At the third day’s close, pursuing 534, Australia mustered 12 for three in its second innings after India declared at 487 for six. Jasprit Bumrah scalped Nathan McSweeney and Marnus Labuschagne, and Mohammed Siraj prised out Pat Cummins to leave the host gasping.

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Hello and welcome to Sportstar’s LIVE coverage of Day 4 of the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test between Australia and India at the Optus Stadium in Perth. 

Stay tuned for all LIVE updates and scores from the game as the day progresses!