India vs Australia, WTC Final Day 3 Live Score and Updates: With India still trailing by 318 runs with five wickets down , eyes will be on Rahane and KS Bharat

India vs Australia, WTC Final Day 3 Live Score and Updates: India will be hoping that their last batting pair in Ajinkya Rahane and KS Bharat give them some respite as they stand 318 runs away from Australia's colossal first-innings score of 469. Rahane, playing his first Test for India since being axed in March 2022, has had a 71-ball stay in the middle scoring 29 runs while Bharat was the newer batter at the crease after Nathan Lyon dismissed Ravindra Jadeja with a beautiful delivery at the close of Day 2. The wicketkeeper-batter is on 5 off 14. India also have the tail to follow, which has frustrated the opposition attack in the past. But Australia stand favourites to pull off a commanding first-innings lead at The Oval and take a step closer to the world title. 

Siraj took four wickets in the Australian innings and has been one of the few brights lights for India in this Test thus far. The fast bowler was at his usual feisty self, particularly in a little passage of play against Steve Smith where he threw the ball angrily at the general area behind the striker's end after the batter pulled out a la Mitchell Johnson vs Kevin Pietersen 2013 Boxing Day Test. This is what Ricky Ponting had to say about Siraj. 

"Maybe sometimes he gets carried away and goes a little bit over the top, but you need those guys in your side when things aren't going well. He was the one today who said I am going to be the guy that is going to turn things around and what I loved was that his pace didn't drop at all during the whole innings," Ponting told International Cricket Council (ICC). "From the first ball yesterday morning until late this afternoon, his pace was hovering around that 86 or 87-mile-and-hour mark and that says a lot about a great attitude," he added.

IND vs AUS, WTC Final Day 3 Live score: Kohli was out to a short ball? 

Well it looked to everyone that the delivery that got Kohli out off Starc had reared up from a good length but Sanjay Manjrekar apparently something different on the pitch map. 

“A lot was being said about the ball but I looked at the pitch map and the ball had actually pitched halfway. That's a short ball and if you see Virat Kohli, that is the problem I have had with him the last couple of years. He is on the front foot no matter what. That ball is halfway down the pitch. It is a snorter if the ball is up from good length where most batters get out on the front foot. That is why I have become a proponent of the back foot play. If you see his reaction, he has gone on the front foot. Once the ball rears up while you are on the front foot, you have got no chance,” he said on ESPNCricinfo.