Jaiswal, Kohli dominate before Bumrah destroys hosts: Australia vs India Day 3 big Test moments

Four balls was all it took for Jasprit Bumrah to tear Australia’s microscopic hope to shreds, and it’s a delivery Nathan McSweeney will never forget. Watch the seven moments which defined Day 3.

Two tons to two generations of Indian superstars with the bat turned into three wickets with the ball in a frantic, 40-minute stint for Australia on Day 3.

Robert Craddock runs through the seven moments which defined the day’s play.

SHEER CLASS

It was bold and risky and summed up the bravado and skill of world cricket’s new batting star.

Yashasvi Jaiswal raised his century with a splash of inventive genius when he rocked back and played a ramp shot for six off Josh Hazlewood high over slips, hitting the boundary marker on the full.

As Virat Kohli pumped his fist in the dressing rooms, Jaiswal raised his arms to the heavens for his fourth Test century. There will be many more.

Yashasvi Jaiswal brings up his century in Perth

THE LYON ROARS

Most of Australia’s bowling game plans went up in smoke … this one hit a rare jackpot.

Nathan Lyon knew Rishabh Pant would charge from the trenches so he set a simple, yet effective trap.

Coming from wide on the crease, Lyon bowled well wide of Pant’s body with a bit of drift and turn and the keeper swallowed the baited hook with a premeditated charge.

Pant’s back leg slid early, he lost balance and his rushed defensive scramble produced an ugly airswing. Lyon got his man but the crowd sighed. Pant is a crowd favourite like few others in world cricket.

Rishabh Pant being stumped off Nathan Lyon

THE WICKET BARES ITS CLAWS

This is one of the best Test decks we have seen in Australia in recent times.

Carnage on the first day, batting domination on the second and now it is starting to crack and should fall apart … perfect.

Everyone has had a chance to shine.

Nathan Lyon provided a hint of things to come late in the day when it got a pearler to turn out of the footmarks and beat Kohli all ends up and just miss the stumps.

Nathan Lyon sends one ripping through the gate

HE’S BAAAACK

Sometimes the switch flick moment for an out of form batsman can be as simple as a one sweet stroke.

Virat Kohli’s four year battle with receding form seemed to float into the past when he hoisted Mitchell Starc high over the slips cordon for a six which seemed to prick the balloon of anguish which engulfed him in his first innings.

Kohli had to cope with having his pads on for a day before he was called to action but emerged looking like the Kolhi of old rather than the old Kolhi. The only downer about his stunning six was that it bounced and hit a young security guard on the side of the head as he was doing his job and looking towards the crowd.

Kohli six over third man

THE KING REIGNS

Virat Kohli’s seventh century was unforgettable not simply for its quality but the sweetness of the celebration that followed.

To see Kohli rock his head back in pure relief and smile like a man who had just achieved his life’s mission revealed how much it meant to him.

The kisses he blow to his wife were also a sign of a batting great in a place he feared he might never return to.

Virat Kohli brings up his hundred

REDDY TO RUMBLE

IS Nitish Kumar Reddy really playing his first Test?

With Ian Botham type bravado he slaughtered Australia’s fading attack in the last session and his three fours off three balls off Mitch Marsh – two rasping pulls and a thunderous, back-away cover drive – the 21-year-old looks a fabulous prospect.

Yesterday’s innings came on the back of a lively 41 in the first innings. Rarely in history have Australia looked as shell-shocked on home soil as during Reddy’s devastating, unbeaten assault with Kohli before the declaration which finished in utter humiliation with Labuschagne bowling feeble leg-spin from around the wicket.

Reddy smacks Marnus for six

BUMRAH’S MISSILE

Australia is one bad day from one of its worst Australia’s worst Test performances of the century.

Was there anything more certain in life than the fact that the rampaging Jasprit Bumrah was going to snatch wickets in the fading shadows after declaring.

As was the case in the first innings he was simply too good for new boy Nathan McSweeney with a skidding, pad-seeking missile that trapped the youngster dead in front.

McSweeney will not be dropped for Adelaide but facing this prince of pace will be a brutal test for him.

Then came the hugely out of form Marnus Labuschagne whose career has been put in free fall by yet another Bumrah lbw, this one last ball of the day. Labuschagne let a ball go that was never going to miss the stumps. It summed up his muddled mindset and Australia’s.

McSweeney gone in the first over

Originally published as Jaiswal, Kohli dominate before Bumrah destroys hosts: Australia vs India Day 3 big Test moments