Australia v India LIVE: Perth Test day three

Hello cricket fans. Welcome back. I am Vince Rugari, and it is my honour and duty to be manning today’s blog for day three of the first Test against India in Perth.

I’ll be honest, I thought there was a semi-decent chance I wouldn’t be needed today, such was the way day one went down, with 17 wickets falling. But there were only three yesterday, and they were all Aussie, and now India will resume their second innings on 0-172, leading by 218 runs. Openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (90 not out) and KL Rahul (62 not out) are at the crease and will be eager to pile on a little bit more pain, and probably a lot more runs before they have another crack at the Australian line-up.

I am watching this one from the Ashfield bureau but Dan Brettig and Tom Decent are over there in Westralia and will be chipping in with regular takes for the blog.

Strap in, settle down. Let’s cook.