The tourists responded from two embarrassing defeats to enjoy a rare day of dominance and take control of the third Test on a rank turner of a pitch
3rd over: India 14-0 (Rohit 8, Gill 6) Starc is right on the money here, angling the ball across Sharma who is playing and missing twice in succession. The fourth ball stays low and goes under the bat. The fifth connects – and how! It’s wide and over-pitched and the India skipper pounces to crash a cut shot to the boundary. Having been dismissed twice, given not out twice and survived reviews both times, he’s clearly riding his luck. And why wouldn’t you?
2nd over: India 10-0 (Rohit 4, Gill 6) As Australian heads continue to shake under their baggy greens, Cameron Green rolls in to Shubman Gill. This is the 23-year-old Gill’s 14th Test but he only has 736 runs at 32 with just one century. He looks to be a man in form though, as he straight drives Green for four. MAGNIFICENT SHOT! And in worse news for the Australians, replays of a later Starc delivery that ducked between bat and pad show it didn’t catch the edge… but struck the pads BANG IN FRONT. Australia have claimed two wickets in one over and blown them both with poor reviewing (of poor umpiring, admittedly).
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