Australia v India LIVE updates: Australia stares down heavy home defeat as veterans face the music

Ok, that’s enough carry on, we’ve got some play in Perth and the chance to carry on about live cricket.

Jasprit Bumrah to resume his third over of the innings after knocking over Marnus Labuschagne last night. Four balls left in the over, Steve Smith on strike and on a pair.

Third ball: Big shout from Bumrah as he ambles in and whips a ball into Smith’s pads. Sounded like there was two noises there and also a no-ball. So Smith avoids a king pair, but hardly a confidence booster.

Fourth ball: Back of a length to follow up and well outside off. Smith probably doesn’t need to play at that but it’s an assured defence he offers.

Fifth ball: A little fuller and wider, left alone.

Sixth ball: Floated up outside off and Smith punches through cover to get off the mark with a three. Good shout.

Seventh ball: First ball for Khawaja is back of a length and tucked off his hip for a single to fine leg.

Australia: 3-12 (Khawaja 3*, Smith 0*) trail India by 522 runs.

Ex-England captain Michael Vaughan has come off the back fence in response on Fox, with the question of a “divided dressing room” being raised. Don’t know about that one, but probably not the sharpest take from a tired fast bowler either.

“I must admit, I’m staggered by that,” Vaughan said.

“Josh Hazlewood is a great bowler, terrific team member. Publicly, I’ve never heard an Australian come out and kind of divide the camp into batters and bowlers.

“There’s 11 batters that will never change. Every single player has to bat. There’s two days to go in the Test match. It’s a long shot, a huge shot for Australia to get anything out of this game, but to publicly see a player basically saying, ‘I’m thinking about the next game’ before that this game is finished.

“Publicly to come out and say that I’ve never, ever seen that from an Australian player, any player really, around the globe, but particularly Australians”.

It feels a bit unfair to be picking on Marnus Labuschagne alone given very few in the XI can hold their heads high after the first three days in Perth.

But his run of outs now goes back a long, long way. Still, few could have predicted Labuschagne would bowl more overs than runs added to his tally in Perth.

The 30-year-old has now made one century in his past 41 Test innings, with his latest dismissal doing nothing to allay concerns he might not be the right man for Australia at first drop.

The real question here though is, who on earth would you bring in if Labuschagne doesn’t last the summer?

Brad Hodge can be revealed as the member of Australian team support staff who landed in hot water for damaging the carpet in the Hobart dressing room after the final game of the Twenty20 series against Pakistan.

Two sources with knowledge of the incident, who would not be quoted publicly, said Hodge, a recurring part-time member of the Australian white-ball coaching staff and former Test player, brought an e-bike into the dressing room after the game.

Hodge then did a series of burnouts on the carpet, damaging the surface and resulting in a complaint from Cricket Tasmania.

The bike had been used by another member of the support staff to get to Bellerive Oval.Hodge has been contacted for comment.

“We are aware some damage was caused to the carpet in the Australian dressing room at Bellerive Oval after the Australia-Pakistan T20 and we have apologised to Cricket Tasmania for this,” CA had said in a statement.

“The cost of the repairs will be passed on to the person who caused the damage and they will be reminded of their responsibility to take care of the facilities they are privileged to use.”

Read the full story here.

Possibly not since spinner Johnny Watkins got the yips on debut in 1973 has an Australian cricketer had as embarrassing a day as Marnus Labuschagne’s in Perth on Sunday.

A poor man’s bumper barrage, a couple of overs of leg-spin more negative than an opposition leader – at least cricketers get penalised for it – a five-ball innings for three runs to follow a 52-ball innings for two the first time around, and a fatuous review; these were all unworthy of a man who has been a good servant of his team and his country.

Labuschagne’s ignominy was Australia humiliation writ small.

Midway through day three, Australia had let slip a Test match they had all but won halfway through day one by so far that they resorted to the tactics of a harlequin, hoping to achieve by distraction what they could not by application. Only Labuschagne’s desperate review was in character.

Australia will lose this match by hundreds of runs, and with it all their emperor’s clothes. The rest of the series will be a dogfight at best. At least it is a series this time, not a cameo.

Read Greg Baum’s full analysis here.