Bumrah to Lyon, no run, this time Lyon manages to defend this short of length delivery to the off-side

Bumrah to Lyon, no run, and again! Nips away from short of length and forced a false shot

Bumrah to Lyon, no run

Bumrah to Lyon, no run

Nathan Lyon, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Bumrah to Carey, out Caught by Pant!! Carey c Pant b Bumrah 21(31) [4s-3]

Bumrah to Carey, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Harshit Rana to Mitchell Starc, no run, another bumper angling away and asking for a pull away from the body, Starc resists the urge to play the shot and leaves

Harshit Rana to Mitchell Starc, no run

Harshit Rana to Mitchell Starc, no run, and there's the first short ball of the day. Starc sways out of the line, Pant fumbles as he tries to reverse cup

Harshit Rana to Carey, 1 run, oh inside edge escapes past the stumps. Full and outside off stump, Carey looks to drive through cover, drags it to the on-side

Harshit Rana to Mitchell Starc, 1 run, and so is Starc. Gentle full delivery on the stumps, Starc knocks it to mid-on

Harshit Rana to Carey, 1 run, to mid-off

DDP, Virat, Jaiswal and Bumrah have a relaxed chat in the dugout

A bowling captain showing his tactical nous and leading from the front when his team is under serious pressure has to be one of the best sights in cricket. Jasprit Bumrah was nothing but fire. He still has a helpful pitch and that ball though 27 overs old still has a great shine on it. All signs pointing to a riveting day's play ahead. India will want to take as much lead as possible. Australia know they are just one partnership away. Can't wait for the clock to tick to 10:20

Meanwhile, Nitish revealed that all India discussed in the innings break was about not trying too hard or looking to swing too much as there is enough lateral help available. The chat was to just let the pitch do its bit and keep the disciplines right. So from the words of the players it is clear that batting won't be all that easy going forward as well. But if Australia do manage a counterattacking stand and draw close they could tilt the balance as well.

The Aussies are 83 adrift now but don't write them off yet. Starc was still optimistic about getting close to the Indian total. There were two key takeaways from the pressers of Starc and Nitish Reddy. When asked if he felt the wicket would settle down Starc pounced to say "No," with a smile even before the question was finished. He then explained that there are cracks underneath so he doesn't expect the pitch to get better for batting.

"I think it was a fair bit of good bowling today. Obviously there was enough in the wicket. Probably felt it was a hard ball wicket. When the ball started to get a little bit softer towards the back end of that Indian innings it didn't do as much but still was enough there but didn't as much as the brand new hard ball. I guess it's something for teams to take in the second innings. If you can get through the testing period it does get slightly easier. That being said the outfield is quite slow and that probably made the runs a bit hard to come by and probably the slowest outfield we have seen in the West (Australia) for a long time," Starc added.

"Not a whole lot. I don't think... It might have been a bit more sideways movement.. again.. it's just my memory.. I couldn't tell you to be honest. I don't know if they were very different wickets to all the Test matches," Starc replied.

Well, it's a different debate/discussion altogether but after the day's play yesterday Mitchell Starc was asked in the press conference about what was demonstratively different about this pitch from the ones used for those aforementioned 4 Tests where the average first innings score was in excess of 450