Australia back in the game courtesy Lyon

Australia came back magnificently with off-spinner Lyon grabbing a five-for 94 with some canny turn and bounce. He accounted for the top and middle order Indian batting whilst the quick bowlers applied pressure from the other end.

All is set for a fascinating contest on day three in their fourth Test at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi.

Sachin Tendulkar looked fluent after surviving a rather plumb shout for LBW, but failed to carry on from a good start. Ajinkya Rahane, on debut, looked calm in the face of some classic Australian hostility courtesy of Peter Siddle and David Warner, but fell soon after he got in for 7.

Skipper MS Dhoni looked good before falling to a soft dismissal, pulling a slower ball off the toe of the bat to Shane Watson, and Ravindra Jadeja looked set to be going on for bigger runs until Glenn Maxwell trapped him leg-before with just his sec- ond delivery.

This pitch is not getting any easier to bat on, and India knows that any sort of lead they can muster on it will be valuable.

What an exciting day of cutand-thrust Test cricket. Honours are pretty even at this stage, after Australia were bundled out for 262 this morning. Tailender Peter Siddle top-scored for the beleaguered tourists with a knock of 57.

India galloped away with the rest of the first session courtesy of half-centuries from Pujara and Vijay, it looked like being yet another day of hard toil for the men from down under. But, halfway through the page turned.