Ram: "Not a good decision, should have informed Rohit and Pant when 20 overs left or after 400"

Bharat: "My guess - Bumrah and Ishant will bowl 3 overs each and Jadeja will bowl the last one!"

Andrew: "Aggressive declaration by India, given that they only need to draw the series to retain the Border-Gavaskar trophy... Tipping Australia to make 700 in two days and then skittle India for 200 on day 5!"

Daniel: "Being out in the field for that long will be a good character building exercise for some of the inexperienced Australian players. Hopefully the likes of Harris & Head have learnt that keeping the opposition in the field is a good tactic to tire them out, not just trying to freely score runs."

Brodie Elliott: "As an Aussie.... I am feeling extremely nervous!"

5:27pm India have declared. That should give them seven overs at Australia. The acceleration coming a little late in the day, but they seem to have calculated this. Teams who bat 170 overs and have wickets in hand usually have a good idea exactly where they want to be, and India have deemed 443 is good enough for this pitch. The players will be back on the field in a couple of minutes.

Joe: "You mean... er.... he c-c-caught it?!" --- Precisely!

Ayoub: "Why do I feel nervous every time Pant hits a boundary thinking he might be out the next ball.. and as I type... there you go!"

Ajay: "167.3 first sign of what? Rohit throwing it away as usual or his first double ton in long format" --- Declaration...

Is that the first sign?

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