India in jeopardy inbetween rain breaks
Cummins bagged Pant for the third time in the series India found themselves in the doldrums despite rains reducing play to just 30.2 overs over the first two sessions of the third day's play of the Brisbane Test. At the Tea interval, which was taken after yet another spell of showers, the visitors were tottering at 48 for 4 in response to Australia's first-innings total of 445. India's batters weren't helped by the stop-start nature of the day's play that allowed Australia's seamers to rest and return fresh after each interval but Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, and Pat Cummins were also able to create more jeopardy out of the Gabba surface owing to their higher release points compared to the Indian quicks. That said, India shot themselves in the foot with some of their shot selection. While Yashasvi Jaiswal fell the second ball of the innings after flicking a Starc delivery straight to the square leg, Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli were done in attempting boomi...