More gloom for India in Brisbane ft. the rain

There was more anguish in Rohit Sharma's tone than anger as he came through the stump mic. KL Rahul had clipped a ball from Nathan Lyon towards mid-wicket and called for a single before checking to see if the ball had gone past a diving and sliding Pat Cummins. The Australian captain did get to the ball but couldn't pick it up cleanly enough to enforce a run-out while the two Indian batters nearly got into a fateful mix-up.

Rohit immediately regained his composure before turning around and asking Rahul to be a bit more cautious with his calling. This summed up both the day and the Indian captain's mind-set in that moment. Only 25 or so minutes before Rohit and Rahul had walked out to resume their innings, there seemed to be very little possibility of any more cricket on Day 3.

The only reason Lyon was bowling with a 15-over-old ball was because the umpires had deemed it to be too dark for Cummins to resume his spell from the Stanley Street End after Mitchell Starc had finished his interrupted over. Though Lyon did get a couple of deliveries in his solitary over to grip and bounce off the surface, there was no real threat for Rohit and Rahul to contend with from the two off-spinners.

Yet, there seemed to be a sense of foreboding dread. Based on the way things had gone for India on Monday, and the way things have gone for Rohit in the last few months, you feared the worst. So, when Rahul nearly miscalculated his call for a quick single completely, it was only understandable that Rohit was a bit agitated by the prospect of his extremely vital innings potentially being cut short in the rudest of fashions.

Fortunately for the 37-year-old and his team, it wasn't to be. A late drizzle returned to force the players off the Gabba one final time on a stop-start-stop-start day that saw Australia boss proceedings while putting themselves in a commanding position.