Australia has recovered the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after the third Test with India finished in a draw.
The stalemate in Melbourne implies Australia, pounded 4-0 when the groups last met in Test cricket in 2013, are 2-0 up with one to play in the four-match arrangement , having won the initial two Tests in Adelaide and Brisbane.
Steven Smith's side attempted to drive triumph at The MCG on Tuesday when they place India into bat after lunch however notwithstanding taking three early wickets and recently dislodging Virat Kohli, the Baggy Greens were left baffled as the voyagers struggled to 174-6 preceding Smith surrendered the draw with four overs remaining.
Opener David Warner announced on the night of day four that Australia required more than the 326-run lead they had collected over India before pushing for a win and Shaun Marsh rightfully obliged in the morning session.
The 31-year-old proceeded onward from his overnight 62 to 99, with the highlight of his thump when he clobbered Ravichandran Ashwin for a six and a four off progressive balls to achieve 96.
Bog passed up a major opportunity for his third Test century when he was run out by Kohli – the sixteenth player in Test history to withdraw in that manner on 99 – yet he and Ryan Harris (21) guaranteed Australia had the capacity call time on their innings at 318-9 at lunch.
India, accordingly, were situated a MCG record 384 runs from 70 overs to win the third Test and keep themselves in the arrangement, however the guests were most likely more concerned with rescuing a draw.
MS Dhoni's charges started their second innings in the most noticeably bad conceivable way when they lost Shikhar Dhawan (0), Lokesh Rahul (1) and Murali Vijay (11) inside the initial nine overs to sink to 19-3.
Dhawan was rejected lbw by Harris; Rahul, shockingly elevated to No 3, edged Mitchell Johnson to the slips; and Vijay was then casualty of a brutal lbw choice, with replays demonstrating the ball rattled into his cushions by Josh Hazlewood was missing leg stump.
Be that as it may, Kohli (54) and Ajinkya Rahane (48) – who consolidated to put on a fourth-wicket stand of 262 amid India's opening thump in Melbourne – added 85 preceding Kohli lobbed to Joe Burns at square leg.
Kohli's passageway made India a bit jumpy and they were much more bothered when Johnson smoothed the off stump of Cheteshwar Pujara (25) and Rahane miscued a force stroke off Hazlewood and was culled by Marsh, yet, at 142-6, Dhoni (24 not out) and Ashwin (8 not out) dug into survive a strained la
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