So what shall be India's approach on 4th day?

[Austin 3:!6]

Trail by 26 runs with 9 wickets remaining. Bat bat and bat will be the only option I guess but it will not be easy on a 4th day pitch.

[Cricket_Hacker]

go after it.Try to somehow reach 400-420 and send Australia in to bat with 30 min to go

[adi B]

Declare at 300.target of 200 is more than enough

[Dhoni_fan]

Right now we shouldn't think too much about the state of the game, just bat all day and hope the wicket crumbles on day 5 if it does we may have a great chance of levelling the series.

[gattaca]

Dhonis record as the captain who lost most of the tests will be become true.

[Marut]

Just bat out day four. Runs will come. I don't see India wining this unless they are prepared to take a significant amount of risk. If India score at 4 runs per over, they will get 360 on day four, which is total lead of 360 + 71 - 97 = 328. Declaring at 328 will be a risky business, Dhoni will never do that - Dhoni will want a lead of at least 375 and by then we will have only 75 overs to bowl out the opposition.

[rkt.india]

This pitch won't crumble even for next 10 days. If you bat well, you can bat two days. In two innings, I actually saw just 1-2 wicket taking balls. Most of the wickets were gifted.

[zep1706]

Just bat out day four. Runs will come. I don't see India wining this unless they are prepared to take a significant amount of risk. If India score at 4 runs per over, they will get 360 on day four, which is total lead of 360 + 71 - 97 = 328. Declaring at 328 will be a risky business, Dhoni will never do that - Dhoni will want a lead of at least 375 and by then we will have only 75 overs to bowl out the opposition.

Therefore it is better if it does not come to that point and India get all out around a score of 350-360. This pitch won't be as good as Adelaide on 5th day and anything over 300 would be huge task.

[Stuge]

India should give free wickets and let the match over by tomorrow .So ,Sunday is not wasted by these nalaayaks .

[zep1706]

This pitch won't crumble even for next 10 days. If you bat well' date=' you can bat two days. In two innings, I actually saw just 1-2 wicket taking balls. Most of the wickets were gifted.[/quote'] I saw some cracks and variable bounce yesterday, it will surely be a lot worse on day5.

[veer]

It's been 23 overs with this ball.. play out first 5-8 overs and see how the pitch behaves. That will take you to over 30... Play with run rate 4 runs per over for next 50 overs with loss of only 2-3 wickets. That takes you to lead of 200 runs and Over 80 mark.. you'll have new ball around that time and you'll lose 3 more wickets there.. Make your tailenders to chip in.. or else we are screwed.. get to at least 350 runs lead.. Yeahh.. dream world is on.. In reality, we'll manage only 200 run lead. A lot will depend on Kohli and Rahane who can score runs at good pace while saving their wickets.

[BlueBee]

What is the average score at Gabba in Day 5 ?

[bulbul]

Need to score at ove 5 rpo for first 20 overs.

[bowl_out]

Need to score at ove 5 rpo for first 20 overs.

I'd rather see them scoring at 3.5 without losing a wicket

[yoda]

Bat normal cricket, preserve wickets. Need a lead of 300+ by end of the day to be able to even save the test.

[bowl_out]

Bat normal cricket' date=' preserve wickets. Need a lead of 300+ by end of the day to be able to even save the test.[/quote'] This. I'd say bat 2 sessions normally with no target in mind... Accelerate in the third session. Try to get to 400 by Stumps and declare overnight.... If we lose more than 3 wickets in the first two sessions, bat out the third session slowly and the first session on Day 5 and save the game

[coffee_rules]

Think we are 0/1 and start the innings...we can get till 330...save the test on D5..No winning business. We can only draw it from here. Our bowlers cant take 20 wickets.

[fineleg]

We are currently -26 for 1. (behind by 26 runs) Even if one quick wicket falls (and its Shikar Dawan lol he fishes outside off) - we will be 0 for the loss of 2 wickets, that's immense pressure - two top order wickets for no run on the board!!! Aussie fortress Brisbane, and they know how to make India crumble.

[adi B]

Dont have much hope from pujara on this pitch but still I hope he plays out as many deliveries as he can and drain the Aussie bowlers,I am sure he can do that.a 120 ball 45 type innings would do good meanwhile I have no hopes from dhawan ,any runs he scores is a bonus.same for nohit

[adi B]

I've got this feeling that the usual suspects might fare well today with the bat