India A vs Australia A LIVE Day 3, 2nd unofficial Test: AUS-A 185 all-out; IND-A needs 412 to win

KL Rahul and N Jagadeesan begin the chase for India A. This is going to be a tall task for the home team.

Yash Thakur gets his first wicket. Short ball, Rocchiccioli goes for the pull, gets a top edge towards the slips. Another wicket for Thakur. Short ball, Thornton isn’t able to keep the ball grounded. Thakur runs and takes a brilliant diving catch in front. Australia-A is all out for 185. India-A needs 412 runs to win.

Manav Suthar gets his third by having Todd Murphy bowled.

AUS-A 171/8 in 42 overs

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Edwards is stranded down the leg and caught behind. Back of the length delivery by Gurnoor Brar. Off the next ball, Will Sutherland looks to flick over the short midwicket is caught. Two in two for India-A.

Todd Murphy ducks the bouncer on the hat-trick ball.

The second session of Day 3 begins. Can India A get in some early wickets to make a match out of this?

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McSweeney reaches his fifty in 98 balls. Pretty much the same template as the first innings: play to the merit of the ball. Has played some lovely pulls. A solid knock.

AUS-A 127/5 in 33 overs at Lunch

Manav Suthar has Josh Philippe caught behind while defending. He falls after scoring a 50 off 46 balls.

Both batters continue to rotate strike with ease. Indian bowlers haven’t been much threatening so far. Yash Thakur has been quick, given a short-ball field but both batters have used the pull shot well and ducked whenever necessary.

Manav coming over the wicket to both right handers. It is allowing Philippe to apply sweeps and reverse sweep without much fear of LBW. A four off the last ball of the over: Philippe opens the face of the bat and the ball goes past the first slip.

Yash Thakur, concussion sub for Prasidh Krishna, bowling for the first time in this series. He looked quick whenever he bowled in the warmup sessions before.

Now, Philippe applies a reverse sweep and gets another four. Australia-A beginning to look in much better control of the situation with flurry of boundaries in the last 30 minutes.

Manav into the attack. Philippe sweeps perfectly towards midwicket for four.

Philippe pushes the ball towards square leg. The fielder from the deep fine leg runs, dives but isn’t able to stop it from going for four.

Now, McSweeney begins Gurnoor Brar’s over with a four past the third slip. Soft hands on that occasion.

Philippe gets another four towards gully region. All three boundaries have come in that area today.

Philippe ends the Siraj over with a brilliantly timed push towards midwicket for four - first properly controlled boundary today.

Nathan McSweeney gets going with a boundary from the right of gully fielder. Fuller length, leaned on to the drive. Not sure if that was the region he was targeting though.

AUS-A 25/4 in 10 overs

Josh Philippe is off the mark with a thick outside edge that went past the gully for four.

Siraj strike off the first ball! Connolly is cleaned up shouldering arms. The off stump did a cartwheel! AUS-A 17/4 now.

IND-A - Dhruv Jurel (C/WK), KL Rahul, N. Jagadeesan (wk), Sai Sudharsan, Devdutt Padikkal, Ayush Badoni, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Prasidh Krishna, Gurnoor Brar, Manav Suthar, Mohammed Siraj.

AUS-A - Sam Konstas, Campbell Kellaway, Nathan McSweeney, Oliver Peake, Cooper Connolly, Josh Philippe, Jack Edwards, Will Sutherland, Corey Rocchiccioli, Todd Murphy, Henry Thorton.

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