Rohit Sharma proposed, Jasprit Bumrah disposed, Shaun Marsh departed. This small passage of play was the highlight of a dramatic third day of the third Australia-India Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground here yesterday.

Australia had limped to 89 for three in response to India's 443 for seven declared with the last delivery to lunch imminent. The ball was already 32.5 overs old and a little on the softer side, the pitch had lost its pace and offered no joy to the bowlers. "Nothing much was happening. So, last ball before lunch, Rohit was there at mid-off and he told me, 'you can try a slow ball like you bowl in one-day cricket'," Bumrah said, crediting his Mumbai Indians skipper for the wicket, late-dipping slower yorker that pinged the older of the Marsh brothers plumb in front.