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Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 4th Test, time four, Melbourne
Australia 474 & 228-9: Labuschagne 70, Lyon 41*; Bumrah 4-56
India 369: Reddy 114, Sundar 50; Boland 3-57
Australia pb by 333 runs
Crucial lower-order runs kept Australia successful the ascendancy connected a gripping 4th time of the 4th Test against India successful Melbourne.
Batting with a first-innings pb of 105, Australia scraped to 228-9 astatine the adjacent having been 91-6 successful the day aft different superb spell from the irresistible Jasprit Bumrah, who took 4-56.
He bowled debutant Sam Konstas for 8 and took 3 much wickets successful a middle-order illness that saw 4 wickets autumn successful 21 balls arsenic India surged backmost into the contest.
But Marnus Labuschagne dug successful for a captious 70 and enactment connected 57 with skipper Pat Cummins, who made 41.
Both men were enactment down by Yashasvi Jaiswal – Labuschagne connected 46 and Cummins connected 21 – successful 2 of 4 dropped catches by India, 3 of which were by Jaiswal.
Nathan Lyon was besides dropped connected 5 and went connected to frustrate India successful an unbroken last-wicket concern of 55 with Scott Boland that took Australia to the adjacent with a pb of 333 runs.
The play continued to the finish, with Bumrah having Lyon caught astatine gaffe connected 33 successful the last implicit lone for Australia's fig 10 to beryllium reprieved by a no-ball.
The Lyon-Boland basal ensured Australia clasp the vantage but the hosts' determination to defy the temptation to state precocious successful the time has enhanced the chances of a draw.
India volition inactive clasp immoderate anticipation of a palmy run-chase connected a last time wherever a triumph for either broadside would springiness them the pb successful a fascinating five-Test bid that is tied astatine 1-1.
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