India vs Australia Live Score, 3rd Test, Day 5: India bat for 131 overs in 4th innings to snatch draw at Sydney

FOUR! Half volley outside off stump and Pant is all over it, he has smashed it for another boundary.

LBW SHOUT!!?? Umpire is not interested. The height seems to be the factor. Aussies know, and this was a mere desperate shout it seems. Aussies need a wicket.

FOUR! Starc goes short and this has been pulled hard by Rishabh Pant, and the ball races to the boundary ropes for four. Fantastic batting by Pant and he is taking this game away.

Excellent over from Nathan Lyon as the day progresses slowly towards this Lunch. If Australia get a wicket here in the next two overs, then it would turn the tide of the game.

Shouts of "catch it," but it landed just ahead of the fielder. Anyhow it seemed like hitting the pads. India 170/3

Pant’s fifty

3rd Test fifty, 1st vs AUS

2nd fifty plus score in AUS, both have come at Sydney.

1st while batting at #5.

3rd IND WK to score two fifty plus scores in the 4th innings of the Test.

Deep Dasgupta- 2

Syed Kirmani- 2

R Pant- 2

FOUR! Rishabh Pant carries on after scoring his half century. He has taken the game to the opposition here in Sydney. If he survives till Lunch, it will be a big boost for India.

Pant gets to his fifty with a backfoot punch to the off side. Fifty off just 64 balls for the left-hander. This has been a gutsy innings from him.

SIX! SIX! Rishabh Pant has turned the heat on says Murali Kartik on commentary and he is right. Pant is on the move, problems for Australia. India 167/3

Just the two overs for Labuschagne. We now have Mitchell Starc from the other end and the crowd immediately sense something, some cheers and claps for the Australian left-arm quick.

This a great contest between these two now. Pant is constantly trying to get on top of Lyon and the experienced off-spinner is setting up plans to get him out. He bowls a maiden to the Indian left-hander.

Marnus Labuschagne continues after the drinks break for Australia. No real problems for Pant and Pujara, they take three singles. India 155/3

Pulled away from Pant! Some good work at the mid wicket fence from Will Pucovski prevents the boundary but Pant will get three runs. 150 up for India and this is also the 50 partnership between Pant and Pujara.

Just one slip and it goes through exactly where the second slip would have been. Pant's attacking instincts have forced Paine to get a slip out and this time it works to his advantage. A full one outside off from Hazlewood, Pant goes hard at it, gets an outside edge and it goes wide from the first slip fielder for a for.

Pujara lashes on to the full toss provided by Marnus Labuschagne. The India No.3 did get a few short deliveries in this over but didn't quite manage to find the gap but this time he dances down the track to and hits the full toss to the left of mid on for a boundary. India 144/3

Relentless Hazlewood bowls another maiden to Pujara. While Pant continues to attack Lyon, Hazlewood is working on his own gameplan against Pujara.

8 runs off the over, two boundaries in it. The previous Lyon over had yielded 13. So Rishabh Pant has launched a calculated attack on the Australian off-spinner. India 138/3

FOUR! Short and wide from Lyon, first real loosener from him today, perhaps it is an affect of the previous over's charge from Pant. The left-hander rocks back to cut it through the off side for a four.

A very good over from big Australian. He got Pujara guessing there. But so far so good for India too. This Pant, Pujara partnership is doing well.

FOUR! SIX! Aggression from Pant. He danced down the track to Lyon and hits for a four followed by a six. Australia shouldn't mind this at all. They have got enough runs on the board but some entertainment for all of us. It is always around the corner when Pant is batting. India 129/3

These Australian fast bowlers are relentless. Cummins goes Starc comes in, Starc takes a breather, Hazlewood steps up. It's a continuous battle. Hazlewood has started off with a maiden.

Another maiden from Lyon. He also trapped Pujara in front on the fifth ball too. Australia didn't opt for DRS but replays showed they would have retained it had they taken it.

Driven straight down the ground. That's the second time Pujara has done that to Cummins today. This time, the timing not enough to take it to the fence but enough to allow Pujara to run three. India 115/3

The up and down nature of a fifth day track in full display now. Boy this will be a hard task for India to survive against perhaps the best bowling attack of the world and on this track. Another maiden from Cummins.

Pant got a genuine outside edge of Lyon's first delivery but Tim Paine could not hold on to it and he did not look that comfortable in the next five deliveries either. Encouraging signs for Australia, exactly the opposite for India.