Melbourne: In the first session of Day Three, Ryan Harris and Josh Hazelwood only bowled two balls between them that pitched on the line of the stumps to Virat Kohli. The rest were immaculately on the fourth or the fifth stump line, trying to induce the edge. On a pitch offering no seam movement, it was a splendid spell. It was an example for the Indian seamers to follow.

Come morning of Day four, Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami had two left-handed batsmen to confront in Chris Rogers and David Warner. If the pair had learned from the clinic of Harris, they would have pitched most of the balls on just about off stump and going across the left-handers, trying to induce the edge.