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As it happened: India secure series-levelling win

Daniel Cherny
Updated ,first published

Thanks for joining us

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It's been a pleasure brining you this Test match. Keep across all our coverage from Greg Baum, Malcolm Knox, Jon Pierik and Andrew Wu.

Paine speaks

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Overall:

"Just a bit of a sloppy performance in the field and not enough runs."

On the batting lineup:

"I think we've got the best people here at the moment." Said they don't necessarily need to change the top six."

DRS and his dismissal on day three:

Thoughts from Malcolm Knox

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Cricket is a team game and all that, but consider the position of Australia's 'batting group'. Their collective contribution to this match has been 223 runs for ten out. In the field, they've dropped four critical catches (so far). They spent this morning watching their bowlers try to scrounge out some kind of total to defend...so that those same bowlers can attempt a miracle this afternoon. Any Australian batsman who gets in the lunch queue ahead of a bowler should be sacked on principle. And which position did Australia make redundant during the winter? The batting coach.

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Paine to front the media

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A very proud skipper (in absentia)

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India nail their selections

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Tim Paine speaks

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"We played pretty poor cricket, pretty sloppy cricket for the majority of the Test match."

On Cameron Green:

"I think he's started his career pretty well."

Paine says the team is likely to stay together in Melbourne ahead of the third Test, wherever that may be.

Injury update

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Umesh Yadav is recovering well, according to Rahane, while batsman Rohit Sharma is also recovering well.

Player of the match

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Indian captain Ajinkya Rahane is deservedly the man of the match for his first-innings century and handy runs in the second innings. He wins the Johnny Mullagh Medal.

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Tendulkar full of praise

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