Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Jaiswal only hope as India reel at 130/6 in 2nd innings of MCG Test

Melbourne: Yashasvi Jaiswal scored his second half-century of the game, but other top and middle order batsmen failed to provide support to him as India reels at 130 for six currently on the final day of the fourth Test against Australia here on Monday. The victory target is 340 and it doesn’t seem that India will go for the improbable chase with only 28 overs left in the game.

An upbeat Australia went into the lunch having reduced India to 33 for 3 with captain Rohit Sharma (9 off 40 balls), KL Rahul (0) and Virat Kohli (5) all back in the dressing room.

Earlier, Rohit’s ultra-defensive approach and Kohli’s unending saga of failures outside the off-stump had India staring down the barrel.

Rohit (9 off 40 balls) did all the hard work during the first hour before opposition skipper Pat Cummins (2/19 off 14 overs) got his bunny for the tenth time in Test matches.

Kohli (5 off 29) could never control his urge of playing the cover drive again and was caught at first slip after Mitchell Starc pushed one across with the angle.

Shortly after play began on day five, Jasprit Bumrah completed his 13th five wicket haul in Test cricket as Australia were all out for 234 in their second essay.