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Australia's lead grows beyond 300 and into record territory as the tail hangs in against a tiring Indian attack late on the penultimate day of the MCG Test. Follow live.

The MCG's Boxing Day Test aggregate crowd record is on course to be broken after another big attendance on day three. 

Australia captain Alyssa Healy says playing an Ashes Test at the MCG — the first women's Test at the ground since 1949 — is a childhood dream come true. 

Nitish Kumar Reddy's father provided an unforgettable moment in the MCG stands as India's young guns allowed the tourists to claw their way back into the match. Here are the quick hits from day three of the fourth Test.

Day three was supposed to be a batting day for Australia, and one where the hosts set themselves up for a crucial MCG victory. But in its way was Nitish Kumar Reddy, and the dogged determination of India's generation next.

India great Sunil Gavaskar is apoplectic after Rishabh Pant's clumsy dismissal in India's first innings of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG.

WBBL-winning captain Sophie Molineux will undergo knee surgery and miss Australia's defence of the women's Ashes.

Nitish Kumar Reddy comes of age at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on day three, scoring a maiden Test century to drag India back into the Boxing Day Test.

Rohit Sharma's elevation to open marks another failure with the bat, while Steve Smith stands tall and Sam Konstas has the fans eating out of the palm of his hand. Here are the quick hits from day two at the MCG.

Steve Smith and Virat Kohli have been carrying the hopes of their nations for more than a decade now, and so it proved again on day two of the Boxing Day Test — but by stumps, one had risen to the occasion and the other had imploded.