Australia did what was required to stay in the series with a devastating display of spin bowling, but normal service could yet resume at Indore
or a day, at least, the tables turned. To this point Australia’s tour of India had been marked for the visitors by two batting collapses under the scrutiny of spin: one when the first Test was almost gone, the next when the second Test was very much in their keeping. To, though, with one last chance to stay in the series, the Australians found themselves able to out-India India.
Usually when a team is outmatched, missing one or two scant opportunities is the end. The other team steams away. As Rohit and Shubman Gill responded with six boundaries in the next 23 balls, lashing Starc and Cameron Green through the off side, that scenario was playing out. Until spin in the sixth over changed everything.
Suddenly the gout of soil dislodged by one delivery in the first over had more bearing on the match than the wicket chances missed. Starc got one more over. Subtler turn from Kuhnemann took Gill’s edge to Smith at slip. The opening partnership of 27 had become two for 34. Off-spinner Nathan Lyon promptly replaced Starc, spin at both ends.Already balls had turned sharply, stayed down, or jumped from a length, far more extreme on day one than the surfaces in Nagpur or Delhi.
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