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Live Report - Australia vs India, 4th Test, Brisbane, 4th day

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Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:05

Welcome to our live report of the third day of the Australia-India Test from Brisbane. Join us for updates, analysis and colour. You can find our traditional ball-by-ball commentary here

10.00am: Australia race away

A couple of expensive overs from India, and Australia are suddenly 94 ahead with all ten wickets in the bank. Both new-ball bowlers have strayed in line and length, dropping short and wide and straying on the pads, and Marcus Harris has hit three fours in two overs. He's even driving balls on the up through the covers now, and rapidly catching up with his opening partner both in terms of score and strike rate. Natarajan, who conceded 14 in the 12th over, has now given way to Shardul Thakur. Navdeep Saini is on the field, by the way, which is hugely encouraging news for India.

9.49am: It's all happening at the Gabba

So far it's been a morning to summon up Bill Lawry's classic line. Mohammed Siraj has beaten David Warner a couple of times with seam movement from just short of a length, and got him to edge a similar delivery just beyond Rohit Sharma's reach at second slip. T Natarajan has found Marcus Harris' edge at the other end, only for the ball to fall short of the cordon. When the bowlers have erred slightly on the full side, both batsmen have picked up boundaries with sweetly timed straight drives. Australia are 39 for 0 in 11 overs.

9.15am: The fairytale of Sundar and Natarajan

That's Sidharth Monga on the common sense running through a partnership that was in every other way the product of schoolboy cricketing dreams. We also have Deivarayan Muthu speaking to Washington Sundar's sister - who's also a cricketer - and his coach and delving into his early years; if you were surprised by his batting display yesterday, you really shouldn't have been.

Looking at it from the Australian perspective, Dan Brettig suggests the Sundar-Thakur stand told of a bowling attack that showed the physical and mental fatigue of playing all four Tests, in a deviation from the rotation policy adopted during the 2019 Ashes.

9.00am: Clear weather... for the moment

Australia are 54 ahead at the Gabba, with two full days left to play and all ten wickets in hand. Ordinarily that would mean they're in the driver's seat, but we may not get two full days of play given the rough weather that's expected in Brisbane today and tomorrow. The news for now, though, is that it's sunny, so we should start on time, which is 9.30am local time.

Karthik Krishnaswamy is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo

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