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3rd Test: Australia still on top after Virat Kohli-Ajinkya Rahane heroics : Cricket, News - India Today

Australia's Nathan Lyon and Ryan Harris each claimed two vital late wickets to leave India on 462 for 8 at stumps on day three of the third Test, after Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane shared a 262-run partnership on Sunday.
India trail Australia's first-innings 530 by 68 runs after starting the day on 103 for 1. Kohli and Rahane made the most of a placed pitch at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to put together a fluent partnership that looked like turning the Test in India's favour. They brought up India's first fourth-wicket century partnership at the MCG off 138 balls and went on to build the India's highest partnership outside Asia in 10 years.
Lyon (2 for 108) ended the long partnership when he trapped Rahane lbw attempting a sweep on 147. The offspinner then dismissed Lokesh Rahul, caught at deep backward square off a top-edged sweep, dismissing him on debut for 3. Rahul's wicket came much to the relief of substitute field Peter Siddle, who dropped Rahul at midwicket two balls earlier.
Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was caught behind for 11 off Harris (4 for 69), who caught and bowled Ravichandran Ashwin for a duck in the next over.
On the last ball of the day, Kohli's impressive innings came to an end on 169, fishing at a wide ball from Mitchell Johnson and edging it to wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, who produced his second diving catch of the day.
India will resume day four with Mohammed Shami on 9 joined by Ishant Sharma. Harris gave Australia a perfect start on Sunday by dismissing Cheteshwar Pujara for his overnight score of 25 off the second ball of the day, thanks to an athletic, one-handed catch by Haddin.
Shane Watson (1 for 65) soon after claimed opener Murali Vijay for 68, caught at backward point by Shaun Marsh.
Kohli, who scored two centuries in the first Test at Adelaide, got two reprieves in the second session when Lyon missed a clear caught and bowled opportunity with the batsman on 84, and then on 88 when Watson dropped an edge at slip off Johnson.
The early showing of Australia's pacemen soon dissipated despite setting an international cricket record of more than 328 runs without conceding a sundry.
Tempers flared before tea when Johnson threw the ball toward Kohli's wicket while the batsman was out of his crease, only to hit Kohli in the lower back and sending him to the ground. Johnson immediately apologised, but Kohli approached Johnson at the end of the over and the pair had a heated exchange before the umpires intervened.
India need to win the third Test to keep their chances alive in the four-match series. Australia can clinch reclaim the Border-Gavaskar trophy with a win or draw in Melbourne after a 48-run win in the first Test and a four-wicket victory last week in the second Test at Brisbane.


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