Lyon spins India out once more; Australia want 76 to win

Pujara needed to work exceptionally laborious to erase India’s deficit with out a lot assist from his top-order teammates as Lyon by no means allow them to breathe throughout an unwavering spell from across the wicket after lunch. Pujura stood agency however he by no means stood nonetheless in almost 4 hours of attrition to maintain India alive. Having realized from his mistake within the first-innings, he performed nearly solely on the entrance foot with a vertical bat, all the time enjoying in entrance of his pad, and used his ft beautifully to smother the spin of Lyon, Todd Murphy and Matthew Kuhnemann. It was one thing his team-mates couldn’t handle. Shubman Gill fell to a wild heave throughout the road to Lyon within the first over after lunch. Rohit Sharma misjudged the size going again to a full ball from Lyon. Virat Kohli performed an ill-fated cross-bat shot off the again foot to Kuhnemann, earlier than Ravindra Jadeja was unable to get his bat in entrance of his pad as he was trapped plumb in entrance by Lyon.