Australia v India: third T20 international – live!

• Updates from the final match of the Twenty20 cricket series at the SCG
• Start time for the Aus vs Ind game is 7:10pm AEDT
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9.13am GMT

12th over: Australia 101-2 (Wade 58, Maxwell 11) Shardul Thakur hasn’t bowled yet tonight, interestingly. Probably wishes he hadn’t started yet as Wade takes a half-volley off middle stump and launches it into the crowd! Long hit. Thakur tries a bouncer to Maxwell who plays… let’s call that a late uppercut, very fine but saved by deep third for two. So Maxwell goes the other way, walking across and dinking the ball over short fine leg for four.

The replays are showing that umpire Rod Tucker initially called for a DRS replay for Natarajan after Kohli asked for it from long-on. But the third umpire overruled and said that it couldn’t take place. This system is better than VAR but it’s a long way from perfect.

9.09am GMT

11th over: Australia 87-2 (Wade 51, Maxwell 4) Natarajan keeps hitting the spot. Gets wided for a bouncer but they can’t get much from him with the bat. Wade slants away a couple of runs off the pad and raises his fifty, two in a row now. This one a touch slower than his work the other night.

Then things get interesting. Natarajan hits Wade on the pad around leg stump, and scrambles to field the ball before appealing. The umpire says not out but Natarajan wants to review. It did look like that ball was swinging into Wade, straightening on the leg stump line. But a lot of time has passed. Eventually Kohli asks to review, but was that too long? Wade thinks so. And what has happened is that in the meantime, a replay has been shown on the big screen. So the umpires refuse a DRS review on that basis, even if it wasn’t too late.

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