India v Australia: second one-day international – live!

42nd over: Australia 247-5 (Turner 12, Agar 9) Target 341. Kuldeep is back now for his tenth and final over, using his wrong’un – the ball that did Smith in – to Turner whenever he’s bowling at the right hander. They’re able to get him away to the sweepers, the pressure building, so Turner takes a swipe at the final delivery… it hangs in the sky for a long, long time… but there’s nobody there to claim the catch at square leg. They come back for a couple. He deserved a third – well bowled.

41st over: Australia 241-5 (Turner 8, Agar 7) Target 341. Bumrah: he’s so good, rinse and repeat. Agar steered him with skill to begin, down to the rope – that put the pressure back onto the Indian No1. But you wouldn’t know it the way he landed the rest, his yorker a thing of beauty. The required rate is now 11.

40th over: Australia 235-5 (Turner 7, Agar 2) Target 341. Right, after the appeal there was a ropey wide to Agar – a misdirected slower ball, by the looks. But Shami was back on his yorker length shortly thereafter, a quick single considered by Turner; they’re lucky the bowler didn’t successfully throw down the stumps. On paper Australia are still in this but one of these two need to start middling it.

NOT OUT! Didn’t look a bad shout live but it swung plenty after hitting in line, missing leg stump entirely. No umpire’s call, so India lose their review.

IS TURNER LBW TO SHAMI? Kohli is sending it to the TV ump. Looked a decent shout live. Stand by.

39th over: Australia 228-5 (Turner 3, Agar 1) Target 341. Well, the obvious thing to say is that Turner has been here before. Give or take, this was the situation he walked into at Mohali in March last year when Australia chased 360 from nowhere. Bumrah is brought back by Kohli after the two wickets from Kuldeep, frustrated by four leg byes off Turner’s front pad when missing his line. 10.3 an over needed.

38th over: Australia 221-5 (Turner 1, Agar 0) Target 341. Watching that replay back, it was the lack of pace on the ball to Smith that sorted him out. Superb variation. Kuldeep has reached 100 ODI wickets two matches quicker than Warne. Handy!

Make that 101 for Kuldeep! Smith chops on two short of a ton. He made room for himself outside the leg stump to cut but an inside edge ends his evening.

A checked drive, staight to the captain at cover! Kuldeep now has 100 ODI scalps.

37th over: Australia 219-3 (Smith 97, Carey 18) Target 341. Saini has four more to get through, so he’ll be bowling in that final ten. I’m not sure this was the plan but he’s bowled pretty well so far and at decent pace. He gives Smith some width though, carved away with relative ease to the boundary. They need 9.4 an over.

36th over: Australia 212-3 (Smith 91, Carey 17) Target 341. Well bowled, Kuldeep. He’s turning past Smith’s inside edge, up for lbw. He’s getting some spin on this road. Three singles are their lot. Meanwhile on TV, I don’t understand the context but Hayden and Slater are talking about having a fist fight or something?

35th over: Australia 209-3 (Smith 89, Carey 16) Target 341. Jadeja’s last over and SMITH LANDS A BLOW before he’s done, dancing and launching him waaaay over the rope at midwicket for SIX MORE. We know from his efforts in Canberra earlier this summer in a T20 against Pakistan that he has the ability to put the foot down just as effectively as he does occupy the crease in Test cricket. Put it this way: if he can bat for another ten overs, they should be most of the way to the finish line.

34th over: Australia 199-3 (Smith 81, Carey 14) Target 341. By pull the trigger, that doesn’t mean swinging at everything quite yet – as they note on telly, ten or 12 an over in the final ten isn’t that problematic in modern ODI cricket. In any case, Carey is the man making a play in this over, slog-sweeping Kuldeep for SIX – the first of the chase! He didn’t get all of it, but we know Carey doesn’t need to – a very powerful player. He goes again in the same direction next up, albeit along the carpet, beating the sweeper to the rope for four more. 13 off it… they needed that.

33rd over: Australia 186-3 (Smith 78, Carey 4) Target 341. Jadeja is doing a wonderful job as Kohli’s Mr Fix It, giving Carey nothing unfurl the arms at in a manner that could threaten the boundary. Smith needs to pull the trigger shortly.

32nd over: Australia 182-3 (Smith 77, Carey 2) Target 341. Carey can’t get Kuldeep away reversing, off the mark with the conventional sweep instead. A period of brief consolidation after losing Labuschagne, drinks taken with 159 needed in 18.

To close the loop on that odd leg before referral, I’m reminded that hotspot is never used in India. Time we standardised all that too, isn’t it?

31st over: Australia 178-3 (Smith 75, Carey 0) Target 341. So, it’s the former captain and the next captain with the better part of nine an over to get. Strap in.

Kohli rewarded! He’s used Jadeja across four spells to tie Australia up at various intervals and it’s worked here in prompting a rare false stroke from Labuschagne, miscuing out to deep extra cover where he’s taken safely by Shami.

30th over: Australia 171-2 (Smith 69, Labuschagne 45) Target 341. Bumrah on for his sixth over – surely the last we’ll see of him before the death. Australia must be mindful of this too, happily playing India’s main man out for three singles.

Ahhh, there is no use of hotspot in this series, Michael Slater confirms. So much for the heavyweight title fight or whatever that nonsense that was from earlier.

29th over: Australia 168-2 (Smith 67, Labuschagne 44) Target 341. I don’t want to skewer Michael Gough here – this isn’t his fault. But, for mine, that’s another assessment that builds the case for specialist TV umps.

NOT OUT! Kohli retains his review for an umpire’s call on leg stump. The ump upstairs, Michael Gough, insisted there was daylight between bat and pad. It didn’t look that clear cut to me? Far from it. Anyway, it doesn’t matter – he’s still there.

BIG MOMENT! Has Jadeja trapped Smith lbw? Kohli is sending it upstairs!

28th over: Australia 163-2 (Smith 64, Labuschagne 42) Target 341. Ooooh, shooooooot! Labuschagne gets his first look at Bumrah and strokes him down the ground: a magnificent on-drive for four on the up. The summer of Marnus continues. This is turning into a very dangerous union, now worth 81.

“Regarding your dismay (over #24) on the TV guys still talking about the stumping,” notes Krishnamoorthy, “you do not know Indians. We still talk about Kapil Dev’s 175 during every World Cup.” Perhaps, but this is hardly that!

27th over: Australia 156-2 (Smith 62, Labuschagne 37) Target 341. They needed that from Marnus. With one ball to go in Jadeja’s set, just a single from it to that point, the new man to this Australian middle order plays a supreme inside-out cover drive to the boundary. For the first time, the required rate is above eight.

26th over: Australia 151-2 (Smith 61, Labuschagne 33) Target 341. Saini is attacking the stumps and doing it really well. In excess of 140 clicks throughout, they are forced to play mostly inside the V, adding only one single. Those are the overs that do a lot of damage to a batting team when embarking upon a big chase.

What gibberish the clash of the titans branding around this series. I mean, yes, these teams are good. But I heard Hayden call it a ‘heavyweight title fight’ earlier. It’s a three-game jolly six months after the World Cup. Let’s just be fine with that.

25th over: Australia 150-2 (Smith 60, Labuschagne 33) Target 341. Such good batting from Smith, picking up Jadeja’s straight one and helping it fine of the man on the 45 for his seventh boundary. At the halfway point of the chase, Australia need 191 further runs at 7.64 an over. Winviz has that at 91 per cent for India but I don’t share that view. Sure, still India’s game but the visitors aren’t badly placed.

Mark Wood is going wild at Port Elizabeth. There’s a movie in that.

24th over: Australia 144-2 (Smith 55, Labuschagne 32) Target 341. Saini now for his fifth over, presumably the bowler Kohli won’t want delivering too many in the final ten given his relative inexperience. This isn’t a bad one though, sending down a couple of nicely angled yorkers. A poor ball follows to Smith, giving him a good look at a cut shot, but he can’t put it away. They are still talking about the stumping on television some 62 runs after Finch was dismissed. Give me strength.

23rd over: Australia 138-2 (Smith 52, Labuschagne 29) Target 341. Kuldeep keeps Labuschagne quiet for the first three balls of his fresh over so the Queenslander gets resourceful, successfully lapping a couple. He backs that up with a stand-and-deliver flat-bat swat through midwicket. As you do! Brilliantly timed. He’s well in.

“Surely that is five penalty runs there,” argues Dechlan Brennan of Rohit’s effort there when pretending throw after collecting the sweep down at long leg.

22nd over: Australia 132-2 (Smith 52, Labuschagne 23) Target 341. Shami has now bowled six overs, going for 45. Kohli might have a bit of a mathematical issue to deal with later in the innings. It’s where Kedar Yadav was useful in this team.

“Smith and Labuschagne,” emails Krishnamoorthy. “One a disgrace to the law of averages (thanks to Rob Smyth) and the other an autocorrect’s dream.”

21st over: Australia 127-2 (Smith 50, Labuschagne 21) Target 341. Kuldeep is up with a shout for leg before against Labuschagne, who misses his sweep. It’s less ‘howzat?’ and more series of insistent pants at the umpire. I’ve often wondered about this obnoxious appealing technique… surely it doesn’t help? Alas, it is given not out but would have been umpire’s call on the off-stump had he put up the finger. Make of that what you will. Smith takes one off his hip to raise a half-century in 47 deliveries, a fine effort after a challenging start. Has to go big now.

20th over: Australia 121-2 (Smith 48, Labuschagne 17) Target 341. Sorry again about these delays, it is been looked into and hopefully won’t take long to resolve. Shami has been brought back on and just as it was the previous time when Kohli turned to his opening bowler, it hasn’t gone to plan. And just as it was in the previous over of this innings, Steve Smith has finished the over with a boundary. It’s a beautiful shot too, using the pace of the ball to angle his upper cut fine of third man. There was no edge about that, he knew exactly what he was doing.

19th over: Australia 112-2 (Smith 42, Labuschagne 14) Target 341. Unbelievably, they are still talking about the Finch stumping on the TV coverage. But these two have put that behind them, Smith finishing another productive over with a lavish inside-out cover drive. He has that look in the eye, all of a sudden. Here we go.

19th over: Australia 112-2 (Smith 42, Labuschagne 14) Target 341. Unbelievably, they are still talking about the Finch stumping on the TV coverage. But these two have put that behind them, Smith finishing another productive over with a lavish inside-out cover drive. He has that look in the eye, all of a sudden. Here we go.

18th over: Australia 104-2 (Smith 38, Labuschagne 12) Target 341. Smith’s turn to take it to the Indian spinners, pinning his ears back to clobber Jadeja through cover for four. Nobody is stopping that. These two have put on 22 in 17 balls.

17th over: Australia 95-2 (Smith 30, Labuschagne 9) Target 341. Apologies for the delay, we’re experiencing some technical issues. Back to regular programming asap. Marnus played a lavish lofted drive over long-off though – what a start.

16th over: Australia 86-2 (Smith 28, Labuschagne 2) Target 341. Who woulda thought it? Smith and Labuschagne batting together. We’re going to say that a lot over the next decade. The new man, playing his first ODI innings in his second match, is off the mark straight away with a confident drive down the ground, adding another in the same direction later in the over. Confident start.

Finch jumped down the track at Jadeja, tried to put him on the moon over midwicket but missed, the bails taken tidily by Rahul. Many replays were looked at by the third umpire to satisfy himself that the Australian captain’s boot wasn’t behind the line, which feels like the right call from what we’ve seen. An unconvincing stay ends as the players take a drink. India are on top.