Australia was 75 for 3 in their second innings and trailed India by 16 runs at stumps on Day 4 of the second Test match of Border-Gavaskar trophy being played at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar was splendid with his swing bowling and took all the three Australia wickets of David Warner, Ed Cowan and Steven Smith.
Earlier India was all out on 499 runs in response to Australia's first innings of 408. Playing ahead Shikhar Dhawan fell early to Lyon at 187. His wicket started the collapse of Indian batting and one by one they kept on coming and going back. Murli Vijay was out at 153, Kohli tried to consolidate the innings with his 67 not out but no other batsmen stood with him.
Scoreboard on the fourth day of 3rd Test match between India and Australia:
Australia (First innings) 408
India (First innings, overnight 283/0)
Murali Vijay lbw b Starc 153
Shikhar Dhawan c Cowan b Lyon 187
Cheteshwar Pujara lbw b Siddle 1
Sachin Tendulkar c Cowan b Smith 37
Virat Kohli not out 67
Mahendra Singh Dhoni lbw b Starc 4
Ravindra Jadeja c Haddin b Siddle 8
Ravichandran Ashwin c Haddin b Siddle 4
Bhuvneshwar Kumar c Haddin b Henriques 18
Ishant Sharma c Haddin b Siddle 0
Pragyan Ojha b Siddle 1
Extras (b 5, lb 13, nb 1) 19
Total: (all out in 132.1 overs) 499
Fall of wickets: 1-289 (Dhawan, 59.5 overs), 2-292 (Pujara, 62.6), 3-384 (Tendulkar, 94.1), 4-412 (Vijay, 101.1), 5-416 (Dhoni, 101.4), 6-427 (Jadeja, 104.5), 7-431 (Ashwin, 106.5), 8-492 (Kumar, 129.6), 9-493 (Sharma, 130.6), 10-499 (Ojha, 132.1)
Bowling:
Mitchell Starc 23-5-74-2
Peter Siddle 29.1-9-71-5
Moises Henriques 15-1-62-1
Nathan Lyon 31-4-124-1
Xavier Doherty 24-8-87-0
Steven Smith 10-0-63-1
Australia (2nd innings)
David Warner c Dhoni b Kumar 2
Ed Cowan lbw b Kumar 8
Phil Hughes batting 53
Steven Smith b Kumar 5
Nathan Lyon batting 4
Extras (lb 2, nb 1) 3
Total (for three wickets in 21 overs) 75
Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Warner, 0.3 overs), 2-35 (Cowan, 7.5), 3-55 (Smith, 13.5)
Bowling:
Bhuvneshwar Kumar 8-1-25-3
Ishant Sharma 2-0-11-0
Ravichandran Ashwin 7-2-25-0
Ravindra Jadeja 2-1-11-0
Pragyan Ojha 2-1-1-0
Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and R.A. Kettleborough (England)
TV umpire: S. Asnani
Match referee: R.S. Madugalle (Sri Lanka)
Reserve umpire: R.M. Deshpande
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