🏏Australia vs India, 3rd Test: Brisbane, 14 - 18 Dec 2024, Day 5 🏏 - Page 12

Under usual circumstances, the teams would've taken their "tea" break now. Gnasher tells me that "rain has all but stopped now." However, there's no movement on the covers yet.

Some positive signs. As the rain comes to a near-stop, some India support staff members emerge onto the boundary edge.

Pehle Bowling kyo liya bhai 🙈

Saw some visuals from Gabba. Gautam Gambhir was standing near the tunnel, observing what the umpires were discussing. Nathan Lyon looked comfortable in his tracks. The Indian players, though, are in their whites, albeit in their dressing room. Rohit has opened the glass door numerous times to make sense of the conditions, only to walk back after looking upwards.

Richard Kettleborough is standing at the turnstiles, but rain continues to fall down at the Gabba and we'll have no inspection until it stops completely.

The forecast for the next couple of day is quite decent, but there is rain on the horizon on Day 4 and 5.

Whoops, raining again! Not very heavy but enough to delay proceedings significantly.

As rain continues to fall, chances of any further play has started to look bleak. India opted to bowl and then found themselves on a sticky pitch with the pitch not proving to be responsive. But it's now under the covers for plenty of time and they'll hope for it to help their bowlers when play does resume, either today or tomorrow.

You must be wondering how a (potentially) drawn Test could affect the WTC final scenarios?
India

Percent: 57.29, matches remaining: Aus (3 away)

To be certain of a place in the final, India need two wins and a draw from their three remaining Tests in Australia. That would take them to 60.53% and assure them of at least second place behind South Africa, as Australia can only finish on 57.02 even with a 2-0 win in Sri Lanka. If India were to win the series 3-2 they will finish on 58.77, and Australia could still finish below them if they beat Sri Lanka 1-0. If India were to lose 2-3, then they would finish on 53.51, in which case Australia, Sri Lanka and South Africa can all surpass them. For them to qualify with that score, they would need South Africa to lose both Tests against Pakistan, and hope that Australia get at least a draw in Sri Lanka.

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