Key events
78th over: India 258-9 (Bumrah 10, Deep 29) Lyon another over, they review for a bat-pad catch but there’s no contact.
77th over: India 257-9 (Bumrah 10, Deep 27) So there are 98 overs scheduled for the day, plus the one ball from Cummins (that over counts as part of yesterday). Two overs for a change of innings, if that doesn’t happen at lunch or tea, so two potential changes of innings from here means four overs. Take the total down to 94 overs. Every over India faces here is one less available to Australia for batting, or one less that India might have to face later.
Cummins bowls a snorter, moving off the seam. Bumrah fumbles at them, after Deep rotates strike with a push to point.
76th over: India 256-9 (Bumrah 10, Deep 27) Nathan Lyon rather than Mitchell Starc to start the day. I’d be getting Starc to fire down a yorker. Bumrah essays a sweep that misses the bat, but takes his arm, fine of leg slip for four leg byes. Runs be runs.
75th over: India 252-9 (Bumrah 10, Deep 27) Of course, Cummins only gets one ball, because they came off last night for bad light with five balls bowled of his over. Deep runs it into the cordon along the ground.
Here come Jasprit Bumrah and Akash Deep with the chance to do a little more thorning in Australian siding. And Pat Cummins with a chance at a five-for.
Here’s my wrap about how much fun it was yesterday.
Preamble
Geoff Lemon
Hello world. A fun fourth day despite the rain, as India saved the follow-on in dramatic and at times humorous circumstances. Who doesn’t love a last-wicket partnership against the odds? That partnership is unbroken, so Australia still have a wicket to get on this fifth morning, at which point there are three possibilities. One big, two remote.
Australia have to bat again regardless (or declare without batting). So they’ll probably just have a net and then have a little speculative bowl at India late in the day, given they’re down to three bowlers.
Or Australia could smash a hundred or so runs as fast as possible and put the target above 300 and beyond India, and try to bowl them out.
Or Australia could fall in a heap, thus setting India a target below 300, and India could have a shot at chasing it.
Probably more likely than that, it keeps raining sporadically and we get a wet draw.
One of the above, anyway. Or something even more boutique.
Shall we?
