Summary

  • India have won opening two games

  • India 352-5: Dhawan 117 (109)

  • Kohli 82 (77), Rohit 57 (70)

  • Aus pay price for slow start to reply

  • Smith 69 (70), Warner 56 (84)

  • Carey 55* (35). Bumrah 3-61

Live Reporting

Thomas Mallows and Matthew Henry

  1. Ind 294-2

    Pandya is trying to line this up like a baseball player. He steps away with his front foot but is beaten by a bouncer from Patty Cummins.

  2. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    There have been 57 runs in the last five overs.

  3. Mel Jones
    Ex-Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    India look as if they want to set a monster total here.

  4. Ind 293-2

    Kohli 70, Pandya 42

    Five overs to go now.

    India's run-rate in the last five overs has jumped to over 11.

    That's largely been down to these big sixes from Hardik Pandya...

  5. Mel Jones
    Ex-Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    Hardik Pandya is pumped. He sprinted down the track, high-fived Virat Kohli, and then ran back. He is ready.

  6. Ind 290-2

    Oh yeah. There's Virat.

    He middles this one beautifully off Starc and it goes a long way back into the stand at wide long-on.

  7. Mel Jones
    Ex-Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    You've got to dive for that in this situation.

  8. Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    It was in the air for a long time.

  9. Ind 284-2

    Where was the dive?!

    Virat's troubles continue as he skews one up in the air to third man. It's in the sky for a long while but Zampa lets the ball bounce a few yards in front of him before throwing the ball in.

  10. Ind 282-2

    Another swing and a miss from Kohli, this time off the bowling of Starc.

    He hasn't been at his best.

  11. Ind 281-2

    Kohli 59, Pandya 41

    It's not often Virat Kohli gets completely overshadowed. He gropes at thin air at the end of the over and Australia grab a precious dot ball.

    Pandya is catching him up.

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  13. Ind 279-2

    That's outstanding at long-on from Usman Khawaja. It looks like he's got Velcro on his palm as he dives and grabs the ball to prevent another boundary.

  14. Ind 277-2

    Now a four!

    Pandya isn't all power. He follows the big six with a guided cut of a four.

    Ten runs from the first two balls of Pat Cummins' over.

  15. Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    This is what they have come to see at The Oval. Blue shirts rising from the seats in celebration.

  16. Ind 273-2

    How you feeling, Alex Carey?

    Pandya smashes another six down the ground off Pat Cummins. Even the big quick is getting the Pandya treatment.

  17. This could prove costly if Pandya keeps going...

  18. Ind 267-3

    Run rate 6.20

    It's Hardik Pandya doing the real heavy lifting. He has 28 from 17 while Kohli's 59 runs have come from 62 balls.

  19. 6 runs

    Ind 266-2

    Errr. Yeah. That's the over ruined.

    Pandya doesn't even get hold of this but still clears the mid-wicket boundary.

  20. Ind 260-3

    Adam Zampa is back. It's a risky move bowling your leg-spinner in the closing overs but he's doing well.

    Three singles and a dot so far.