LIVE: Day 4 - India just three wickets away from victory

Australia v India, 1st Test, Scorecard

Fast bowler Mohammed Siraj picked up a pair of wickets during the opening session as India moved within sight of victory at lunch on the fourth day of the first Test against Australia in Perth.

Siraj claimed the key wickets of Usman Khawaja and Steve Smith with some superb fast bowling as Australia moved to 104/5 after one session on Monday and still requiring a further 430 runs for an unlikely victory in the opening ICC World Test Championship contest.

Australia lost the dangerous Travis Head soon after Lunch on a well-made 89, giving Bumrah his third wicket of the innings and breaking a solid 81-run sixth-wicket stand. Four overs later, Nitish Reddy bowled Mitchell Marsh (47) to leave Australia reeling on 182/7.

India need five more wickets to clinch the Test and move back to the top of the World Test Championship standings and it looks as though long-time nemesis Travis Head might be the only player that may stop them from achieving this.

Head looked close to his best in the opening session as the Australian No.5 moved along swiftly to 63* at lunch with all-rounder and a more cautious Mitch Marsh (5*) also at the crease in his home Test.

Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah (2/26) has been the star of the show so far this Test with a five-wicket haul in the first innings, but the India pacer is yet to add to his pair of scalps in the second innings as Australia's top six proceeded with plenty of care against the in-form right-armer.

Day three was well and truly the tourists, with Yashasvi Jaiswal leading the charge in a brilliant 161, while Virat Kohli was back to his run-scoring best as he mounted his 30th Test ton, his first in Australia since 2018 - coincidentally at the same venue.

Day 3 report – India attain total command after tons from Kohli and Jaiswal

India decared their innings at 487/6 to give the fast bowlers time to make evening inroads, a move that paid dividends as a forlorn Australia finished in a periless position of 12/3 chasing 534 and with two days left in the Test.