Boxing Day Test live: Australia hunts victory as India tries to chase down record score at MCG on day five

Pat Cummins again.

Yashasvi Jaiswal jumps into the line of the ball and clips past Usman Khawaja for two.

Jaiswal keeps out the short ball. As long as he’s still out there, India has a chance of saving a draw.

Mitchell Starc revs up and gee that hurt. The first couple balls of every spell have been agony for the big man with a busted back.

He’s hiding the ball in his off hand as he comes in. Did Cummins maybe sense some reverse swing in his over?

Nothing yet. There’s a bit of movement off the pitch, but nothing in a dangerous line yet.

Washington isn’t looking at anything outside off, so Starc fires in at off stump. Washington digs it out.

The last ball is a good one, swinging in at the pads and Washington keeps it out.

Worth remembering Washington Sundar scored 62 off 144 in the first innings of that famous Gabba victory for India in 2021.

Pat Cummins is back.

He’s starting well and Jaiswal is trying to drive off the back foot. He’s a little edgy all of a sudden.

Cummins bangs in a short ball and Jaiswal and whips his head out the way.

He edges the last one into the ground and Mitch Marsh cleans up.

Perhaps more tame and poetic than “STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!!”.

“I’ve always felt that the six is like a drug. Once you’ve hit a couple of sixes, in any form of the game … it’s in you,” he says on ABC Sport.

“That could have been hit for a boundary.”

Lyon to Washington again. He’s navigated the offie pretty well.

He knows everything is outside off and spinning away, and he’s playing accordingly.

Lyon tries to fire one in faster and Washington bunts it away to point.

Scott Boland is back with a silly mid-off for Yashasvi Jaiswal, who is on 76.

Jaiswal defends straight to him and Konstas has a fake shy at the stumps.

Konstas is conducting the crowd clap from silly mid-off. Gotta love it.

Again, though, Jaiswal is untroubled.

Boland angles in from around the wicket and Jaiswal clips off his hip for two more.

Four! What a shot. Beautiful off drive to a length ball. He is rock solid out there.

Two slips, two silly mid-offs, a short leg. Washington is in a battle.

And he edges behind, but wide of slip.

Washington is defending well outside off.

Not a lot really happens in the over, but the fielders are having a grand old time.

Yashasvi Jaiswal faces up, with even more pressure on his young shoulders.

WHOOSH! Jaiswal throws everything at a rank wide one and misses everything. Was that about runs or just scaring the life out of Sam Konstas under the lid?

Konstas is in the firing line. He still won’t shut up though.

It’s a reference to Head’s own joke after taking 4-10 in Galle in 2022.

Another chance! A tough one, but Washington drives up into Konstas thigh at silly mid-off and the ball pops up behind him to safety.

Washington pushes hard and takes two to cover.

Nathan Lyon gets a ball to skid on straight on and finds the outsid edge, and Steve Smith takes a superb catch down low to his left behind Alex Carey.

Lyon loved that one. The Aussies are up and about now.

Nitish Kumar Reddy is on strike.

The first-innings century-maker is out in the middle to face Boland.

A little leading edge as Nitish tries to clip off his thigh. That would have gone straight to a silly mid-off, but there’s no-one in there. Still not a very attacking field.

Cummins puts someone in there in response, and Nitish gets off the mark by turning a single off his hip behind square.

Jaiswal carves a couple into the deep. He’s still cutting from close to off stump.

Scott Boland strikes in his first over and India is five wickets down.

Not for the first time today, Boland gets a ball to jump at a batter and Jadeja can’t help but fend at it, getting a healthy nick through to Alex Carey.

Saving Pat Cummins an Mitchell Starc for the new ball? But it’s still 18 overs away. I think it’s worth a couple of efforts from the strike men against the new batter.

Ravindra Jadeja has Sam Konstas and Marnus Labuschagne jabbering away under the lids on either side of the pitch.

Lyon’s challenging both edges right now, but Jaiswal is doing well to smother the ball.

He’s getting a good stride in to defend.

And that’s a maiden.

Jaiswal is slashing to the off side and Head gets a look at Jadeja.

Jadeja pushes to mid-off and takes a single on Marnus’s arm.

Konstas is lippy in at silly mid-off.

Four singles including one of the last ball of the over. So Jadeja keeps the strike.

Ravindra Jadeja is out there, but Lyon is still bowling to Jaiswal, who’s getting forward to defend.

“Has he picked it?” shouts Konstas at silly mid-off as Jaiswal plays back to defend a skidder.

Jaiswal nudges a single to cover, so Lyon has one ball at Jadeja.