IND vs AUS 3rd Test Live Score: Rain halts play again post lunch, stop-start day continues amid India's misery

Rishabh Pant sends the first ball after lunch for an on-drive for a triple as the play has resumed after an elongated crunch. India need this partnership to spend an entire session in the middle.

The rain delays are not helping anyone as the players are off again. Let's hope, this is also another passing shower.

Virat Kohli departs now. The poor start for India is getting worse by every over as Josh Hazlewood induces an outside edge as Kohli on familiar lines chases a wider delivery and gets caught behind. India are three down for 22 and Australia are all over this match.

India are two down early in their innings losing Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill for nothing and need the experienced duo of Virat Kohli and KL Rahul to stay in the middle for the longest.

The ball is following Mitchell Marsh everywhere as the all-rounder, who was at short midwicket in the last over, was in the gully as the ball flew off Shubman Gill's edge. The all-rounder flew towards his left and held on to a sensational catch. India have been rocked early as Australia are all over this match like a rash.

Yashasvi Jaiswal has departed right after hitting the first ball for a boundary off Mitchell Starc. Jaiswal edged the fuller, wider delivery for a boundary between slips and gully but now has ended up handing a simple catch to the mid-wicket fielder and India have lost an early wicket.

The Indian openers KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal are out in the middle as the rain has relented and the covers are off. It has gotten bright as well. There will be some help for the seamers but Indian openers know they have a huge task at hand.

The second innings should have started by now but another heavy downpour has arrived and India will have to wait for their batting innings to kick off. India will be glad to have gotten the remaining three wickets for not much as Australia added 40 runs. But yeah, it will be a stop-start day and batting won't be easy under the overcast sky.

Australia have been bowled out for 445 as Akash Deep, the unluckiest of them all, finally has a wicket in his name. Carey wanted to dispatch one over the deep mid-wicket boundary but didn't get the required timing and has handed a simple catch to Shubman Gill as the left-hander holes out for 70. 

Mohammed Siraj has cleaned up Nathan Lyon. The last few overs had puzzling piece of cricket on show where Carey wasn't really hitting but Australia still weren't declaring and now Siraj has finally struck again, shattering Lyon's stumps and India are one wicket away. Shouldn't be long now!

Well, well, well... Australia are still batting as Alex Carey and Nathan Lyon stroll out in the middle after the short rain delay. Either Carey's hundred is the goalpost or getting to 450 is the objective. Whatever it is, India will have to bowl.

It is going to be a stop-start day and the second rain delay has happened within an hour. The players are not sprinting but they are fast-walking. It seems like a passing shower and Australia will be mulling declaration pretty hard now because the time is getting shorter and shorter and with the rain predicted throughout Day 4, they can't let rain eat up some more time, especially if they are thinking of a win.

Jasprit Bumrah has struck early, who else but him? Starc had a little push at the fuller ball outside the off-stump, a nick and off he goes. India get the breakthrough early on Day 3. Can they get the remaining two wickets quickly as well?

It was a five-minute delay but just that and the players are out in the middle. Jasprit Bumrah has the ball in his hand and Alex Carey is closing in on his fifty as Australia would want to play for an hour or so before declaring. 

It has been windy and a bit rainy in Brisbane at the start of the Day 3. The forecast suggests a stop-start day with a thunderstorm predicted at around 2 PM local time (9:30 AM IST). With almost a day lost already, you'd think declaration should be round the corner but the way Australia batted yesterday, it seemed like they don't want to bat again. So it will be interesting how that pans out...

Jasprit Bumrah got five wickets from 46 false shots from the Australian batters and Akash Deep got none from 45 - make of that what you will. Akash Deep was probing, beat the bat on a number of occasions but the wickets eluded him as Bumrah did the heavy lifting literally and figuratively.

Travis Head is at the peak of his powers but against India, it appears as if he turns into a different beast altogether. A fourth century in the last 18 months across formats, a second consecutive Test century and one more knock were he was able to get his team into a great position and captain Rohit Sharma was rendered clueless with regards to his plans.

It was a long tiring day for the Indian team in the field on the second day of the third Test against Australia at the Gabba. Travis Head and Steve Smith dictated the terms for most of the day as only Jasprit Bumrah had some sort of success with the ball. Australia ended up scoring 405 runs and still have three wickets in the bag. That would be the first aim for India on Day 3 - take the remaining three wickets quickly. Welcome to our live coverage of the third day of the Gabba Test.