Adelaide: There was a striking resemblance in the morning session of Day Two and Day Four. Both Australia and India batting line-ups had carved out similar scores on previous days. Australia had finished Day One on 354-6 and India 369-5. Both teams had picked up valuable wickets on the previous evening, India picking up three wickets for nine runs and Australia picking up the important wicket of Virat Kohli for 115.

On Thursday, Pujara had stated, “The first session will be so important tomorrow” while on Day One Karn Sharma had said “if we can take two or three wickets early in the morning session then we are back in the game.”