Beau Webster hits the winning runs and Australia have done it. Australia have made it to their second consecutive WTC final and India are knocked out. Needing 162 runs, Australia got off to a breathtaking start. Prasidh Krishna bent in, bowled terrific lines and lengths to get three wickets but with no Jasprit Bumrah, India were asking too much off themselves.
Beau Webster and Travis Head are taking Australia to victory with ease. Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna with continued spells look tired and the result looks inevitable now.
Mohammed Siraj gets Usman Khawaja edging on a pull on his way to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant. Australia are four down but the required runs are less than 60.
Usman Khawaja and Travis Head seemed to have settled down here and are scoring easily. They are able to rotate strike comfortably and are getting boundaries at will. India need an inspirational spell.
Australia need 91 runs to win and India seven wickets. The former looks the more plausible one but India have shown that they will not give up without a fight. With no Bumrah, India can't afford to tire out the other two pacers Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna.
India are alive in the game with 91 runs to play with, still. Prasidh Krishna has breathed fire with the ball, having taken three wickets. If not for those extras at the start by both Siraj and Prasidh, this could have been a little tighter. It still can. But yeah, India are clearly missing the zip and accuracy of Jasprit Bumrah on such a helpful wicket.
Prasidh Krishna is running through Australia now. Steve Smith was one short of getting to 10,000 Test runs and Prasidh with extra bounce forced Smith, who was on front foot and outside his crease, to fend off the backfoot. Smith was in no position to play it, got a thick outside edge and Jaiswal takes another hanger at gully. Australia are three wickets down.
Australia - 58/3 (10 overs)
Prasidh Krishna might be onto something here. It wasn't the best delivery he has bowled in this Test match but India will take however the wickets come. Marnus Labuschagne playing from outside his crease, saw an opportunity to cut through third man but didn't account for the latent bounce as it was too close to cut and hit it straight to the gully. Yashasvi Jaiswal takes it. Australia are two down.
50 in seventh over for Australia! It almost felt like a T20 innings. Michael Vaughan joked on air after the fourth over when Australia were 39/1 that it was a good start. When you're chasing 162 and have gone past 50 in the seventh over and don't have Jasprit Bumrah to face, it's a tremendous, game-killing start.
You live by the sword, you die by it. Sam Konstas has proved that a number of times in four matches this series. Indian bowlers were at their worst but still Konstas has managed to gift his wicket away. Prasidh Krishna strikes and India have their first.
Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna have been wayward and just poor. The wides have gone for boundaries, the balls are going from either side of Rishabh Pant, Siraj has strayed on the leg side too much and it seems Bumrah-less India were just too desperate to get wickets. Australia have chopped off 35 runs off the target of 162 in just three overs. The game is running out quite quickly.
After bowling 151.2 overs for India and doing the heavy lifting all through the series with bat and ball and as captain in a couple of games, India will be without the services of Jasprit Bumrah in otherwise what could have been a thrilling final day of the Test match and series. Kohli leading the team huddle as Usman Khawaja and Sam Konstas walk out in the middle.
It was Scotty Boland all along! Scott Boland was written all over this innings and India had to pay the price. The bowlers brought India back into the game and the batters haven't helped them. The batters have added just 157 runs as Boland ends with six wickets for the innings, taking two in the over. Ironically, the innings ends with Boland getting Bumrah, who might not come out to bowl for India.
Captain Pat Cummins is running through India here. Washington Sundar's resistance ends as Cummins rattles his stumps. The lead has gone past 150 for India but the visitors are eight down losing both Jadeja and Sundar now, the last pair of recognised batters.
Ultimately, there was no use of playing those 40-odd balls because eventually there was a ball that had Ravindra Jadeja's name and it eventually got him. Pat Cummins has his second wicket as he got Jadeja to edge one to the keeper and the left-hander departs.
Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar are out in the middle after the Jane McGrath day greetings. India are in pink-striped Adidas shirts and will hope that a touch of pink helps them.
It was perplexing to see how and what Ravindra Jadeja played, especially after what Rishabh Pant did. Rishabh Pant broke the game open and basically showed everyone how to bat on this surface. Jadeja's approach was puzzling given this surface wasn't aiding good defence. One ball had the batter's name and it could come at any point.
Bumrah led the Indian troops on to the field while having pads on as he shook hands with Glenn McGrath. He has carried the load of the Indian team in the last month and a half and how his back does in the next day and a half might decide the series for India. Bumrah will definitely bat but if he bowls and how much he bowls... your guess is as good as mine...
A 33-ball 61, support bowlers for Jasprit Bumrah, injury concern for the Indian captain and the irresistible outside off-stump edge from Virat Kohli - the second day had it all as far as the Sydney Test is concerned. India are 145 runs ahead but have already lost six wickets. Can they stretch it to 200? Let's find the answers from the pink Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday.
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