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4th Test: India need 87 runs to seal series 2-1 in Dharamsala

Indian bowlers wreaked havoc in the two sessions post lunch as Australia were bundled out for 137 in their second innings. The hosts scored 19/0 at stumps and need 87 more runs to win the 4th Test.

Dharamsala, March 27: Indian bowlers wreaked havoc in the two sessions post lunch as Australia were bundled out for 137 in their second innings on the third day of the fourth Test here on Monday (March 27). The visitors took an overall lead of 105 runs.

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Chasing a small target of 106 runs with two more days of play remaining, India scored 19/0 in 6 overs before umpires dislodged the bails on day three.

4th Test: India need 87 runs to seal series

Indian openers KL Rahul (13 batting) and Murali Vijay (6 not out) will resume India's run chase on the penultimate day as hosts need 87 more runs to win.

It was a day dominated by the Indians after taking crucial 32 runs' lead in their first innings in the first session, thanks to another gritty fifty by Ravindra Jadeja (63). India scored 332 runs in their first innings and later bundled the Australians out within two sessions and placed themselves in the driver's seat.

The Indian bowlers rampaged through the Australian batting lineup with pacer Umesh Yadav and the spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja scalping three wickets each -- medium-pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar took one wicket.

Hero of the first innings, Kuldeep Yadav couldn't get any wicket in the second innings as the chinaman bowled 5 overs in the second innings. Ashwin and Jadeja did the bulk of India's bowling, along with Umesh Yadav.

Glenn Maxwell (45 runs off 60 balls) was the highest scorer for the visitors.

Australia, resuming the post-tea session at 92/5, never looked comfortable on the turning track here.

Maxwell, who seemed good at the crease, also departed soon falling to Ashwin in the 33rd over.

Apart from Maxwell, no other batsmen stood up to the occasion and there was a seemingly unending procession back to the pavilion.

The last three batsmen -- Steve O' Keefe, Nathan Lyon and Josh Hazlewood -- returned to the pavilion without scoring.

It was an aggressive piece of catptaincy from the stand in captain Ajinkya Rahane who also took a couple of brilliant catches.

David Warner (6) was the first one to depart. Centurion of the first innings skipper Steve Smith (17) was clean bowled by Bhuvaneshwar Kumar after hitting the seamer for two boundaries. Opener Matt Renshaw (8) was the third visitor wicket to fall he was removed by Umesh.

Handscomb and Glenn Maxwell stitched a crucial partnership of 56 runs for the fourth wicket before the former was dismissed.

Maxwell (45) was later trapped leg-before by R Ashwin in the post tea session.

Earlier, India were restricted to 332 in 118.1 overs and took a paltry yet moral booster 32 run lead against Australia on the on third day of the fourth Test here on Monday (March 27).

Off-spinner Nathan Lyon completed yet another five-wicket haul after Ravindra Jadeja slammed his seventh Test fifty to help hosts go past visitors' first innings total of 350.

With the final Indian wicket getting dismissed at the stroke of lunch, the umpires signalled for the break. Australia will now come to start their second innings after the break.

Lyon finished with 5/92 while pacer Pat Cummins got the crucial wicket of well set Jadeja (63) and Wriddhiman Saha (31). The Jadeja-Saha duo put up a crucial 96-run stand for the seventh wicket and helped the hosts first level the scores and then take a lead.

India resumed their first innings from 248/6 with Jadeja and Saha at the crease.

The other batsmen to be dismissed were Bhuvneshwar Kumar (0) and debutant Kuldeep Yadav (7). Umesh Yadav remained unbeaten at 2.

OneIndia News

(With inputs from agencies)

Story first published: Thursday, August 3, 2017, 7:45 [IST]
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