Live: India sends Australia in to bat under cloudy skies at the Gabba

It is taken 5.3 overs for the primary rain bathe of the day to interrupt proceedings.

The gamers aren’t sprinting off, however the rain does look comparatively heavy.

The massive cowl is straight on as effectively, which isn’t a very pleasing sight.

The gang booed, as you’d anticipate, however most of these that aren’t below cowl are drifting onto the concourse.

The rain is falling as Siraj waits on the finish of his mark.

We’ll play on for now…

McSweeney clips away off his pads for a single – however there was no shot supplied so again he goes. It is a dot.

Quick, the ball flying previous the surface of off stump.

McSweeney drops and runs into brief midwicket and Khawaja goes to must rush! He would have been residence. Simply, I believe.

The rain remains to be falling – and it is getting heavier too.

Now the umpires have a look at one another and name on the covers.

Siraj has made his means off the bottom after that over. Was he limping his means off? A slight limp maybe. He’s getting his foot checked out.

Anyway, Bumrah sends the primary down the leg aspect after which straightens up and has Khawaja defending because the clouds roll over once more.

Too brief from Bumrah, Khawaja leaps to keep away from getting struck within the midriff however there was little hazard there, his bat effectively up away from the ball.

Stable defence from Khawaja.

He defends into the leg aspect there as effectively. Properly performed.

The road isn’t good from Bumrah in the intervening time.

FOUR! Down the leg aspect, Khawaja swishes on the ball, tickles it on its means right down to the rope.

McSweeney drops one brief and this time does desire a run – they need to rotate the strike they usually tear off down the pitch. Siraj provides chase and falls over making an attempt to snaffle the ball. A superb single.

To brief from Siraj and Khawaja, who had taken a while reapplying his gloves after diving for that single, leaves it effectively alone.

Khawaja clips off his pads to fantastic leg and takes off – I’ve by no means seen Khawaja transfer so quick, tearing down the pitch for a well-run two.

FOUR! Magnificent from Khawaja. Maybe that is why he was so eager to retain the strike in opposition to Siraj, who drops one briefly and will get pulled completely by way of midwicket. Poor from Siraj – far too brief.

Once more, on a leg stump line, Khawaja clips away to brief midwicket for a single.

That is the place the right-left handed combo of batters actually helps, as India’s fielders realign themselves in a means that, thus far, Siraj has been unable to.

McSweeney lets the final fly by way of to Pant. Too brief from Siraj that over.

I believe he is an incredible participant.

However Jadeja aint too unhealthy as different, if we’re being trustworthy.

He’ll need to repackage what he bowled with the final ball of the earlier over and supply six extra similar to that.

Down the leg aspect first up, Khawaja swishes at it however misses.

Khawaja drives properly from very deep in his crease, however a stunning one-handed cease by Gill at mid off saves a run or 4.

Khawaja clips to mid on this time.

BEATEN! What did that one miss? A beautiful ball that simply flew previous the surface edge.

Runs! Khawaja clips off his pads and will get a pair to deep midwicket. Properly performed.

He defends the final.

And he’s booed right away by a Gabba crowd that is by no means scared to indicate it is actual emotions a few participant.

He and Travis Head might have cleared issues up. This Queensland crowd is not going to be so accommodating or forgiving.

First ball is fended away by McSweeney.

Three slips and a gully, level, sq. leg, deep backward sq. leg, mids on and off. Down the leg aspect, McSweeney leaves it alone.

Stable defence now into the off aspect, McSweeney suggests he would possibly desire a single however is turned away.

Arrowing in in the direction of the bottom of the stumps now, McSweeney fends to brief midwicket, once more appears to be like eager to run, however thinks higher of it.

Similar once more, one other aggressive step in the direction of taking a single however there isn’t any run there both.

Stable defence to finish the over.

Rain? What rain. The solar peaks out and bathes the bottom in gentle as Jasprit Bumrah marks out his run up and Usman Khawaja takes his guard.

Three slips and a gully, level, a hat-less Akash Deep fantastic leg, sq. leg subsequent to the umpire, mid on, mid off and Bumrah steams in and Khawaja defends.

Khawaja is rapped on the pads, far to excessive to be of curiosity however some motion already from an on-the cash Bumrah.

FOUR! Off the thigh pad, only a bit unfastened from Bumrah and the ball flies to the boundary.

Khawaja leaves that one on size, the ball rearing up excessive of the stumps, Khawaja throwing his arms and bat up out of the way in which.

He leaves the following one too in an identical, if not fairly as flamboyant a vogue.

BEATEN! A magnificence to finish the over from Bumrah that has Khawaja effectively and actually squared up.

Glenn McGrath has been talking on ABC Radio following the toss.

“I’m not shocked that Rohit Sharma received the toss and bowled,” he says.

“He doesn’t need to get on the market and bat.”

Earlier than the toss, he mentioned that it was a tricky choice and that he would bat first.

“The factor is when you bowl first and it goes pear formed that appears actually unhealthy within the media whereas when you bat first and it goes poorly it’s ‘gutsy choice to bat first'”

The gang is filling the stands properly.

The gamers stroll out out onto the sphere, submitting previous the Border-Gavaskar trophy and the flags of their nations.

Josh Hazlewood is the one participant who would not have a mascot, his little fella a bit too nervous to stroll out with the gamers.

It is wonderful what a distinction three days of cricket could make.

Australia went from being hapless, over the hill, simple beats in Perth to all-conquering world beaters in Adelaide.

So which one was proper?

Was Perth the harbinger of issues to come back? Clearly not.

The truth is, Adelaide looks like a reversion to the norm, as Chris De Silva outlines on this glorious evaluation.