Rain and a match-saving effort by the tailenders helped India rescue themselves from a precarious position to hold on for a draw in the third Test against Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane, which leaves the five-Test series poised at 1-1 with two matches left to be played in Melbourne and Sydney respectively, where the Indian batters may feel at 'home'.
At 74 for 5 in reply to Australia's first-innings total of 445, India were staring down the barrel at the Gabba. If it wasn't for the Brisbane weather and fighting half-centuries by KL Rahul (85) and Ravindra Jadeja (77), and a follow-on-saving 47-run partnership for the last wicket between tailenders Akash Deep (31) and Jasprit Bumrah (10*), the visitors would have been travelling to Melbourne 2-1 down.
