India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli have been in the nets for hours and hours today. There is a very good chance that India will have to bat again soon, it will take a mammoth partnership to avoid a follow-on and Australia will most probably enforce it.

Marsh completes his over with a low full toss, Rahul drives straight back and onto the stumps at the non-striker's end. Rahul on 68 off 110, Jadeja on six off 18.

India 105/5 in 31 overs, trail by 340 runs

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli have been in the nets for hours and hours today.

There is a very good chance that India will have to bat again soon, it will take a mammoth partnership to avoid a follow-on and Australia will most probably enforce it. A draw is the best possible result now for India and it is paramount that their top order, and not just KL Rahul, stay in the middle.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Well it's gone already. The ground staff stayed out there throughout. The showers weren't heavy and they have gone now. Blue skies up there, even. Expect a quick resumption now.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Well considering how the forecast was yesterday, we are quite lucky that we had more than an hour of consistent cricket in the first session today.

Rahul had to contend with six rain breaks yesterday while he was batting, and he came back and hit the restart button quite successfully every time. He wil have to do that again today and be guarded against playing that loose shot that almost sent him back off the very first ball of the day. But what an innings this has been from him, doing something that the rest of the Indian top four seem to have decided to not do any more in Test cricket which is dig in and get settled. He is on 68 off 109 as he runs off, Ravindra Jadeja batting for the first time in this series on six off 18. Mitch Marsh will bowl the last ball of his second over whenever play resumes.

India 105/5, trail by 340 runs

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: He has been all class today. Quite extraordinary to think that the only reason he is playing as an opener, indeed he is playing at all, is that Rohit didn't travel for the first Test. He has pretty much looked the only Indian batter with any answers at all against the Aussie pacers consistently in this series.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Rahul takes a single off the last ball of that over from Marsh and that takes India into three figures for the loss of five wickets, something that has become quite a familiar sight for them in recent Tests. Rahul on 64 off 102 balls, Jadeja on five off 14.

India 100/5, trail by 345 runs

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Just two runs off that first over from Nathan Lyon and now it's the flying bison from the other end. Marsh's nickname may have been permanently evolved now thanks to his screamer to dismiss Shubman Gill yesterday.

Can he get a bonus wicket or two for Australia here? KL Rahul on 62 off 98, Jadeja on four off 13.

India 96/5 in 28 overs

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Josh Hazlewood has walked off quite slowly off the field after that drinks break. Nathan Lyon to bowl the first over of spin today now. Ravindra Jadeja on strike.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: KL Rahul is on 61 off 95 balls, Ravindra Jadeja at the other end on three off eight. Australia physio Nick Jones can be seen talking to Hazlewood in that break. Cummins and Smith in the chat as well. Hazlewood did not look fit at all in that first over of his.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Now then, Hazlewood was off the field thus far and walked in only last over. Now he comes in and starts off by bowling an absolute dolly, short and wide outside off. Rahul smashes it offside to the boundary. Hazlewood had missed the second Test due to a niggle, wonder if that is having any effect here.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Pretty much a one-man show from KL Rahul. He has scored 52 out of India's 81 runs so far.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Well Cummins almost strangled Rohit down the leg side with the previous ball, this time the Indian captain comes forward to defend, edge and wicketkeeper. Cummins brought Rohit forward first ball, then went short and the Indian captain responded by trying and missing his signature pull shot. Then came the leg cutter that left Rohit late, the batter pushed at it with no intent whatsoever. India have lost half their side and they are still over 370 runs behind.

Rohit Sharma c Carey b Cummins 10 (27)

India 74/5 in 23.3 overs

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Cummins continues, Rahul gets off strike first ball and then Rohit is beaten by the second. Cummins then goes full and wide, Rohit meets it with a powerful square drive and the ball absolutely races past point to the boundary. Rohit is then squared up fourth ball before defending the last two balls solidly. Rohit on five off 20, Rahul on 42 off 80.

India 66/4, trail by 372 runs

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Just all class there from Rahul. Rohit leaves the first three balls of the 21st over by Starc and then runs a leg bye. Starc then sends in a wide half-volley, Rahul sends it past point with lovely timing for four. A tight single after that, Rohit was slow to take off but Hazlewood's throw came in late as well. The Indian captain dives and survives. Rahul on 41 off 79, Rohit on one off 15.

India 61/4 in 21 overs

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Three runs from Starc's first over of the day, one of which goes to Rohit. He gets off the mark after 10 balls and, whisper it, has looked quite steady so far. Cummins follows up with a maiden and Rahul is on 36 off 77.

India 55/4 in 20 overs

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: And Rahul remains on strike, having taken a single off the third ball of that over from Cummins. Rohit left the fourth ball and then was solid in defence for the last two. Technically, this is Starc's ninth over on the trot in his opening spell.

India 52/4 in 18 overs, trail by 393 runs

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Lucky escape for Rahul first ball! Steve Smith never, NEVER, drops anything at slips, let alone a catch coming straight into him. Cummins hits the deck hard first ball of the day, Rahul gives the kind of shot fielding coaches play to give catching practice to slip fielders, it goes right into Smith's abdomen at second slip. In and out of his fingers. A wake-up call for everyone except Cummins.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Pat Cummins has the ball in his hands, KL Rahul on strike and he is on 33 off 65, Rohit Sharma at the other end on nought off six balls. AND OH WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE!

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: The sun is shining and there are players walking out in whites. It's time for some Test cricket.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: So, good news for the Australian bowlers. It looks like we will have an on-time start. There is still rain on the horizon so it will remain a surprise if there are no rain breaks at all in this first session, let alone the entire day. But a good day for cricket for now.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Hazlewood was the bowler and Carey was the catcher but one could see a lot of the Australians running all the way to Starc at deep fine leg when Kohli fell. That is because it really should've been Rahul on strike for that delivery. Rahul had absolutely nailed a pull shot previous ball behind square and it raced away towards deep fine leg for what looked like a certain four. So well did he connect that the batters just about completed a single when Starc ran and dived to his left to stop the ball from reaching the ropes.

That put Kohli on strike and he decided to play for a ball on his fifth or sixth stump outside off, as he has done so many times in his career that one doesn't really need video analysts to know how to dismiss him. Just the skill to bowl that line, which, of course, is something only top-level bowlers have. So don't make mistake this as me saying that anyone walking on the street can get Kohli's wicket. Rather it took a fantastic fielding effort and the metronomic genius of Hazlewood to culminate in the delivery that fell Kohli. Surely though, the former Indian captain would be thinking that this was not a delivery that deserved his wicket.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Jasprit Bumrah was all praise for his new ball bowling partner. Mohammed Siraj and the rest of the Indian bowling lineup have been miles behind Bumrah which has hurt the visitors a number of times.

"I think when we came here in Perth, as well as the last game, he looked in very good spirits. He was bowling well and he has picked up a fair few of the wickets. In this game, I think I'll give him credit that he had a little bit of a niggle but he still kept on bowling and still helped the team because he knew if he goes inside and he doesn't bowl, then that team will go under pressure. So I think he has got a great attitude and he has got a fighter spirit that the team loves.

"In terms of wickets and all, some days you will bowl well, the wickets will come as I spoke to him before and some days you will not bowl very well but the wickets will follow. So it is all money in the bank, that is the conversation that I have had with him," said Bumrah.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: India head coach Gautam Gambhir had said before the start of their previous Test series that for him, batters only set up a match and it is the bowlers who are the main protagonists. This was right after the Indian batters' blitz in their second Test against Bangladesh that ultimately won them the match and so his comments were received in a positive light. However, this has been followed by batting collapse after batting collapse, resulting in India being whitewashed at home by New Zealand and now staring at squandering a 1-0 series lead against Australia. Surely Gambhir and India's attitude towards the importance of batting in Test cricket, which is certainly justified, could not have resulted in an overall message to the batters that they don't really need to hang around for too long and have to attack right from the beginning to ensure they score as quickly as possible and give their bowlers enough overs. Because well, it didn't look like Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill or Virat Kohli were interested in hanging around and leaving seemingly driveable balls, despite the Australian batters and KL Rahul showing that is the way to go at the Gabba.

Here is what Gambhir had said back then: "That era is past. This is the era of bowlers. Batters only set up matches. This batsman-obsessed attitude of ours needs to end. If a batter even scores 1,000 runs, it doesn't guarantee victory. But if a bowler takes 20 wickets, then there is a 99 per cent guarantee that we will win the Test match. So if it is a Test match or any other format, bowlers win you matches and tournaments. In this era, we will talk more about bowlers compared to batters, and I hope this mindset changes."

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Virat Kohli walked in yesterday after Shubman Gill fell driving, as was the case with a number of Australian batters before that and almost for Yashasvi Jaiswal as well. What did he do first? Well he drove and missed of course. Kohli then hung around for 16 balls before pushing at a delivery that might have missed the seventh stump if there ever was one. Edged and gone. The Australians wanted to keep him on strike to get him to do exactly that as anyone who has watched any amount of cricket now know that the most reliable way to dismiss Kohli in Test cricket especially is to get him driving. And yet, he continues to walk into that trap.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Never question a tailender about their abilities with the bat, especially if said tailender broke Brian Lara's record for most runs scored in an over in Test cricket. Well, Jasprit Bumrah has pretty much put up a one-man show with the ball for India and considering how their batters have performed, he might just provide better support to KL Rahul than anybody else in his side if he walks out early today.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: At the end of it all, it looked like a crane might be required to lift Mitchell Starc away from the middle when rain forced the players off for the eighth and last time yesterday. The same was the case for KL Rahul at the start of the seventh rain break that came right after he hit a sumptuous cover drive for four. There were times when the breaks would last well over an hour before the players would return, only to rush back after about 15 minutes of play. All of it meant that only 33.1 overs could be bowled yesterday.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: All right, more recent images rolling in from Brisbane show heavy clouds over the city but no rain yet. Those hoping a lot of rain will force India to actually bat for a draw as opposed to whatever it is they were doing yesterday, and those hoping to see some uninterrupted cricket are going to have completely contrasting emotions to every weather update today.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: There was a little funny moment before the start of the Indian innings when Yashasvi Jaiswal, receiving throwdowns near the boundary, played a perfectly timed whip shot along the ground that would've gone through midwicket. This one though went right into the Australian huddle and hit a photographer standing behind them. Jaiswal apologised, all was well, the match started, he drove the first ball and it took an edge before going to the boundary. Then he played that same whip shot second ball, only he failed to keep it down, and ended up putting it down the throat of the the one fielder in front of square. He could've put that ball anywhere in the on side and it would have been at least two runs.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Good news if you are an Australia fan or just want to watch some good cricket regardless of which team you support. He posted this on Twitter two hours ago, though, so the picture could be quite different now.

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Australia made just one change - Josh Hazlewood returning in place of Scott Boland.

Australia XI: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: India have played Ravindra Jadeja, making him the third different spinner to have played for them in this series thus far. They also chose to bring in Akash Deep in place of Harshit Rana, instead of including an extra pacer altogether.

India XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep

India vs Australia 3rd Test Day 4 Live Score: Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the fourth day of the Brisbane Test! The rain threat looms large today too and the start of play could be delayed once again. India have lost four wickets for just 51 runs, with KL Rahul and captain Rohit Sharma tasked with salvaging something out of this innings.