Todd Murphy has helped keep the tourists alive in the first Test but India remain in full control in Nagpur after building a 144-run lead
33rd over: India 110-1 (Rohit 68, Ashwin 21) Another six! This time it’s Ashwin slog-sweeping Lyon five rows back. Great shot from the master spinner who also boasts an average above 27 and five Test centuries to his name. Eight runs from the over and India are in overdrive now. Danger signs for Australia.
32nd over: India 102-1 (Rohit 67, Ashwin 14) The Nagpur crowd has a shriller symphony to it today. Apparently the local schools have been given the day off lessons to attend the VCA Stadium so the bleachers are filled with smiling young boys and girls whooping and squealing at every ball Cummins hurls at Ashwin. Unfortunately too many of those balls are straying onto the leg side and easily left. Cummins – so often the talisman of this Australian side - needs to get his radar right quickly. He leaks a single to Ashwin which allows Rohit on strike. Captain to captain now. Cummins bangs it in short and – BANG! – Rohit hooks it off his eyebrows into the grandstand to uproar from the fans. What a shot! Todd Murphy was waiting in the outer but that sailed right over him.
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