Mitchell Starc catches Rohit Sharma in the deep

He either had to take it on or opt for a different stroke. In Sydney, it had led to him attempting the sweep, but in Brisbane he tried to take it on again. A bit of credit should be given to Lyon because he fired it on leg-stump which cramped Sharma from hitting through the line of the ball.  In the end, Sharma mistimed his shot and was caught on the boundary.  The momentum was back in Australia's favour.

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Earlier, Sharma's Mumbai teammate Shardul Thakur should have been proud of his effort, finishing with figures of 24-6-94-3.  The Mumbai pacer had toiled hard on Day One and continued his approach of bowling outswingers to the Australian middle-order. His length was impeccable on Day Two and he was the man who triggered Australia's late-order collapse. 

The beautiful outswingers kept moving away from Tim Paine and eventually he pushed hard at one. It was classic swing bowling. 

Thakur then set up Pat Cummins by bowling a couple of outswingers and then slipping in a toe-crushing yorker.  The two wickets changed the momentum and enabled India to restrict Australia to a par total of 369.