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Ball-by-ball: India's second innings collapse at the MCG

Updates, context and charts as India try to hold a slippery lead on Day 4.

Priya Mehta
Priya Mehta
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Day 4, first session. The lead is 187 and the ball is 42 overs old. Three of those overs haven't gone for runs.

Cummins is bowling a length two balls fuller than he has all series, and it's working. The wicket of Gill in the sixth over of the session has opened something that was supposed to stay shut for another hour.

What happens in the next forty minutes decides the Test.

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Priya Mehta
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