India lost Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja but were stubbornly inching closer to the follow-on mark as they reached 244-7 at lunch on day three of the fourth Test against Australia on Saturday. India lost both overnight batsmen as they added 80 off 27 overs in the first session as Australia continued to have the upper hand after dominating the first two days.

India are very much on the ropes with Rishabh Pant falling in the first hour of the day trying to attack the fire-breathing Scott Boland. Australia have thus got into India's all-rounders with Nitish Kumar Reddy joining Ravindra Jadeja.