Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Live feed Key events 25m ago WICKET! Todd Murphy b Jadeja 0 (Australia 227-8) 29m ago WICKET! Pat Cummins lbw b Jadeja 33 (Australia 227-7) 2h ago WICKET! Alex Carey c Kohli b Ashwin 0 2h ago WICKET! Usman Khawaja c Rahul b Jadeja 81 (Australia 167-5) 3h ago WICKET! Head c. Rahul b. Shami 12 (Australia 108-4) 4h ago LUNCH: Australia 94-3 (Khawaja 50*, Head 1*) 4h ago WICKET! Smith c. Bharat b. Ashwin 0 (Australia 91-3) 5h ago WICKET! Labuschagne LBW Ashwin 18 (Australia 91-2) 5h ago WICKET! Warner c. Bharat b. Shami 15 (Australia 50-1) 7h ago Team news 7h ago Coin toss 7h ago Preamble Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 2m ago 10. 20 GMT 74th over: Australia 245-8 (Handscomb 2, Lyon 10) Spindly shadows creep across the outfield in Delhi. Jadeja starts up again after drinks and, you guessed it, rattles through a maiden. 7m ago 10. 15 GMT 73rd over: Australia 245-8 (Handscomb 2, Lyon 10) Nathan Lyon playing a typically gritty cameo, he drives Shami through the covers to pick up four and follows up with a Handscomb-esque dab behind point for another boundary. Precious runs for Straya. Time for a drink. 10m ago 10. 12 GMT 72nd over: Australia 235-8 (Handscomb 61, Lyon 1) Spitting cobra of a delivery from Jadeja that rears up and raps Handscomb on the gloves. Shami is coming back into the attack so sadly Handscomb sends back his white sunhat and calls for the helmet. Toby Andrew offers up Richie Richardson as the ultimate floppy-hatted batsmen. Of course Tobes, but there’s someone specific I’m thinking of… “ White-hatted batsmen always remind me of David Fulton choosing to wear a hat rather than a helmet when facing Wasim Akram in one of the domestic finals back in the 90’s sometime. Could it be that? BINGO TO RICHARD WEBB! Handscomb in a floppy hat and whites on a mud coloured square, like eating a slice of Dean Jones Madeline cake soaked in end of history tea with an analogue silver spoon or something (subs pls flesh out) — Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) February 17, 2023 Updated at 10. 17 GMT 15m ago 10. 07 GMT 71st over: Australia 234-8 (Handscomb 60, Lyon 1) Handscomb picks up a single to reach the sixties, things quieten down after another quick brace of wickets for India. 18m ago 10. 04 GMT 70th over: Australia 233-8 (Handscomb 59, Lyon 1) Jadeja at his cunning best, a maiden. 21m ago 10. 01 GMT 69th over: Australia 233-8 (Handscomb 59, Lyon 1) Close! Handscomb ups the ante now, rocking back and getting a thick edge to slash Axar through Virat Kohli’s hands at slip. That could have been nasty, four more to Australia. 25m ago 09. 57 GMT WICKET! Todd Murphy b Jadeja 0 (Australia 227-8) Loosey goosey! Tdd Murphy plays an expansive drive to a ball that Jadeja gets to rip back through the sizeable gap between bat and pad and thunk into off stump! Two in the over for Jadeja. Murphy trudges off with a distant quacking in his ears. Probably. 68th over: Australia 227-8 (Handscomb 53, Lyon 0) 29m ago 09. 53 GMT WICKET! Pat Cummins lbw b Jadeja 33 (Australia 227-7) Jadeja pins Cummins dead in front. The review is called for and contains lots of red, Cummins has to depart for a useful 33. Todd Murphy takes guard and pats back three dots before… 31m ago 09. 50 GMT 67th over: Australia 226-6 (Handscomb 53, Cummins 33) Pat Cummins plays a wristy twiddle into leg and picks up three runs as Pujara, in his 100th Test, hunts the ball down. RE batting in a white sunhat, Arthur Graves emails in to suggest Graeme Hick is the batter I’m trying to summon. Could be right Arth - for some reason I had Kim Barnett swirling round my mind ( as per, right? ) but a quick Google doesn’t throw up any images of the Derbyshire legend doing the biz in a white floppy. The mind plays tricks. 38m ago 09. 44 GMT 66th over: Australia 221-6 (Handscomb 51, Cummins 30) Handscomb tickles a single to give Cummins the strike. Jadeja whistles through the next five balls and the crowd ramp up the decibel levels with every dot. India getting slightly twitchy, Kohli begins to conduct the crowd from the slips. 40m ago 09. 41 GMT 65th over: Australia 220-6 (Handscomb 50, Cummins 30) Five and a half years since his last - Peter Handscomb goes to fifty for Australia . Excellent batting, - skilful and patient, an almost laconic presence at the crease. Well batted ‘Pedey’. 44m ago 09. 38 GMT 64th over: Australia 214-6 (Handscomb 49, Cummins 29) Fifty partnership between Cummins and Handscomb, another velvet-soft-handed dab* from Handscomb behind square takes him to 49 and Australia inch upwards. * Handscomb in Glove 48m ago 09. 34 GMT 63rd over: Australia 214-6 (Handscomb 45, Cummins 29) Lovely glide for four! Handscomb opens the face and runs the ball down to the fence behind point, this is a little gem of an innings, he’s five short of a patient fifty. A single brings Cummins onto strike and Axar Patel rips a quicker delivery past his edge, eeesh that was close - a gnat’s eyelash from the outer layer of linseed oil. 51m ago 09. 31 GMT 62nd over: Australia 209-6 (Handscomb 40, Cummins 29) A whopping seven runs off the over, Siraj is sheepish as he misfields for the second time in a few overs, the ball scooching under his hand and rolling away to the boundary to gift Cummins four. Handscomb quietly accumulates, handy partnership building again for Australia after a clump of wickets. 54m ago 09. 27 GMT 61st over: Australia 202-6 (Handscomb 38, Cummins 24) Handscomb is looking resplendent as he bats in a white sunhat ( who does that remind me of… OBO hivemind? ) a nurdle behind point brings another single. 1h ago 09. 24 GMT 60th over: Australia 201-6 (Handscomb 37, Cummins 24) Runs! Just a couple, Cummins flicks a full-bunger from Shami off his pads to get the score ticking again and brings up Australia’s 200 in the process. A fumble from Siraj in the covers then gifts Handscomb another. The pressure cooker just hisses a little in Delhi. 1h ago 09. 19 GMT 59th over: Australia 199-6 (Handscomb 36, Cummins 23) India continue to squeeze, Australia can’t get the one run they need to go to 200. Axar Patel keeps Peter Handscomb tied down. That’s three maidens in a row post tea. 1h ago 09. 17 GMT 58th over: Australia 199-6 (Handscomb 36, Cummins 23) The indefatigable Shami bustles in and keeps it tight, back to back maidens after tea. Shami is such a nice word to say out loud and makes me think of this: “ When my face is chamois creased ” 1h ago 09. 11 GMT 57th over: Australia 199-6 (Handscomb 36, Cummins 23) An Axar Patel maiden to begin the final session. Peter Handscomb hasn’t (yet got a triple hundred) I’ve just shorn him of about 290 runs. OBO Don Rob Smyth always says he’s surprised by how few mistakes we actually make on here… that’s the line and I’m sticking to it. Updated at 09. 13 GMT 1h ago 09. 07 GMT The players gather on the boundary edge , we’ll be back underway very soon. I’ve just carb-loaded on toast and marmite (not the heinous veggie alternative, sorry Australia) and so am raring to go. Play has just finished over in New Zealand where it looks to have been another Bazballin’ day. New Zealand v England: first Test, day two – live Read more 1h ago 09. 03 GMT Whoopsie. @Jimbo_Cricket hope this turns to truth! (Though Cummins will have gone pretty slow. #thegrauniad pic. twitter. com/mDQzggbv4u — Jeremy Shiell (@JezShiell) February 17, 2023 2h ago 08. 47 GMT 56th over: Australia 199-6 (Handscomb 36, Cummins 23) Back to back boundaries from Cummins, he tickles Siraj fine and follows up with a clip through mid-wicket. Useful knock already from the Australian skipper – he goes to 23 and Australia are one shy of 200. That’s tea . Honours even in that session for my money, 31 overs, 105 runs and three wickets. The Aussies going along at 3. 39 an over. Not too shabby. Time for a brew, back soon! Updated at 09. 03 GMT 2h ago 08. 41 GMT 55th over: Australia 190-6 (Handscomb 35, Cummins 15) Ashwin whirls away to Cummins. Big Pat is itching to get the long-handle out and smear another boundary but Ashwin uses all his tricks and nouse to keep him pinned down, turning a few past the edge in the process. 2h ago 08. 38 GMT 54th over: Australia 189-6 (Handscomb 34, Cummins 15) Siraj bustles in as ever. He’s bowled very well today – no wickets for his 21 runs but his opening spell this morning was box office and he could easily have picked up a handful. He starts tidily, just a single from the over. 2h ago 08. 34 GMT 53rd over: Australia 188-6 (Handscomb 33, Cummins 15) Another lusty blow from Cummins, he slog sweeps Ashwin for another maximum, the Aussie cap’n is throwing a few counterpunches. The sizeable crowd are into this duel, lots of whooping and hollers as Siraj is summoned into the attack. 2h ago 08. 30 GMT 52nd over: Australia 182-6 (Handscomb 33, Cummins 9) Could be the right call from Cummins to be the aggressor and take the attack to India. Handscomb quietly accumulates. A score of 250 on this wicket would certainly have the Aussies right in the game. 2h ago 08. 28 GMT 51st over: Australia 180-6 (Handscomb 32, Cummins 8) Now then, Pat Cummins decides poking and prodding isn’t the way to go, he drops to his knees and spanks a huge six over deep mid-wicket! 2h ago 08. 24 GMT 50th over: Australia 171-6 (Handscomb 29, Cummins 0) Another warp speed over from Jadeja which yields just a single to get Pat Cummins underway. “Hello James, (And well done on somehow arranging to come in at perhaps THE pivotal moment on the match - which means the series). Hello Gervase Greene – the luck of the err English, I guess. “A shame about Ussie, but can I just note Handscomb’s presence is so reassuring - and so different to his last Test stint. A few years skippering a Shield side can make such a difference. Like a county pro in the old days for England, there’s a gravitas that would otherwise be sadly lacking in this very fragile middle order. ” 2h ago 08. 19 GMT 49th over: Australia 171-6 (Handscomb 29, Cummins 0) All eyes and no little hopes on Peter Handscomb now then, he collects two off Ashwin with a glance off his pads. 2h ago 08. 17 GMT 48th over: Australia 169-6 (Handscomb 27, Cummins 0) Just like that the game has turned on a sixpence. Australia need a big effort from their tail. Jadeja hurtles through another over. He’s just notched up his 250th Test wicket, a remarkable player. Take a look at this from m’learned colleague Taha Hashim in this week’s Guardian Spin newsletter: From The Spin in the @guardian . . I thought exactly this about Ravindra Jadeja after the first #INDvAUS Test. Does @GeorgeDobell1 have a view? pic. twitter. com/LXotOGwoA0 — Andy Burge ????????????????????️‍???????????? (@AndyGJBurge) February 15, 2023 2h ago 08. 11 GMT WICKET! Alex Carey c Kohli b Ashwin 0 Another one gone! Nowt much Carey could do about that, a fizzing delivery lifts and catches the shoulder of his bat, the edge flying to a gleeful Virat Kohli at slip. Pat Cummins strides out with plenty to do. 47th over: Australia 168-6 (Handscomb 27, Cummins 0) 2h ago 08. 08 GMT 46th over: Australia 167-5 (Handscomb 27, Carey 0) Khawaja has to drag himself from the crease, he’ll be gutted as he was giving Australia a foothold in the game. He absolutely middled it too. Alex Carey joins Handscomb in the middle. Don’t go anywhere. 2h ago 08. 05 GMT WICKET! Usman Khawaja c Rahul b Jadeja 81 (Australia 167-5) HUGE moment in the match, Khawaja perishes on the reverse-sweep – a ripper catch from KL Rahul who plucks it out of the air on the dive. 2h ago 08. 02 GMT 45th over: Australia 162-4 (Khawaja 77, Handscomb 26) Just a single nudged off Ashwin. So, how is everyone ? Feel free to fling me an Email or tweet @Jimbo_Cricket 2h ago 07. 59 GMT 44th over: Australia 161-4 (Khawaja 77, Handscomb 25) The cap sporting Handscomb rocks back and gets four through point, that’s the fifty partnership . A single into the covers follows. Lovely batting. 2h ago 07. 55 GMT 43rd over: Australia 156-4 (Khawaja 77, Handscomb 20) Rohit had a long chinwag with his team during the drinks break and Ashwin is summoned for the first over back. He lands it on a spot about the size of a pocket handkerchief six balls in a row, Peter Handscomb manages to jam down on a fuller one and scamper a single. Fascinating duel this. Chapeau to Robert Speed! “Watching a batsman play a shot with his normal cap on (no helmet) hits different. You can see how their eyes follow the ball much better than with a helmet on. Handscomb’s cut shot boundary through point was so pleasing on the eye for the very reason he wasn’t wearing a helmet. ” 3h ago 07. 50 GMT 42nd over: Australia 155-4 (Khawaja 77, Handscomb 19) The partnership builds as Khawaja tickles Axar away fine for a boundary, he’s going at a decent lick in this knock and Handscomb is a usefull foil. A slash for two sees two more added to the score and the players will have a drink. I’ve just had a coffee delivered to my OBO perch, la-di-dah . 3h ago 07. 44 GMT 41st over: Australia 149-4 (Khawaja 71, Handscomb 9) Thanks Angus, top stint that. G’day OBO! Straight down to brass tacks as Jadeja is rattling through another over. Khawaja plays a neat reverse dab to pick up a single, Handscomb nudges one up to long leg to return the strike. Khawaja is watchful, playing late and deep in his crease, a prod into the off makes it three from the over. 3h ago 07. 38 GMT 40th over: Australia 146-4 (Khawaja 69, Handscomb 18) Axar is posing no problems so far. Handscomb easily picks off a single, again using his feet to skip to the pitch of the ball. Khawaja does the same from the fourth. Far better signs from the Australia batters in this innings but a long way to go yet. And better signs for you dear readers as James Wallace strides to the crease to take over! 3h ago 07. 34 GMT 39th over: Australia 144-4 (Khawaja 68, Handscomb 17) Khawaja reverse sweeps for four! Jadeja is slinging them in at 95kph and the pace is being exploited. From the next ball, Khawaja plays an orthodox sweep and bags another boundary. India captain Rohit Sharma has his hands on his hips and a frown on his dial. Wicketkeeper Bharat deepens those furrows by then letting through four byes. Twelve from the over. Updated at 07. 35 GMT 3h ago 07. 31 GMT 38th over: Australia 132-4 (Khawaja 60, Handscomb 17) Australia climbing back into this contest. Khawaja and Handscomb are r