Day three photos

Anil Kumble claimed his sixth 10-wicket match haul to keep India on top after day three of the second Test in Madras.

The leg-spinner delivered a huge blow to remove Adam Gilchrist for 49 late in the day, reducing Australia to 150-4 - a lead of nine runs for the visitors.

Kumble took three wickets in the evening, returning innings figures of 3-53 and 10-101 for the match.

Earlier, Shane Warne took 6-125 - his first five-wicket haul against India - to help dismiss the hosts for 376.

Parthiv Patel (54) and Mohammad Kaif (64) put on 102 runs for the seventh wicket before the latter was felled by dehydration and cramp attacks.

India resumed play on 291-6, and on a very hot day the last thing Australia wanted was an extended stay in the field.

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But that is exactly what they got as Patel and Kaif prospered in the morning session.

Neither were in a hurry, but the former picked off the poorer balls with an array of lovely front-foot shots.

The pair passed fifty - Kaif for the first time in Tests - within minutes of each other, but no sooner had Patel raised his bat than he was on his way after gloving Warne behind.

Umpire David Shepherd looked unsure, but in this Test's fine tradition Patel took the decision into his own hands and walked.

The batsmen came together on day two with India still behind, but 102 runs later they parted having shared in a hugely influential partnership.

Kumble quelled Australia's celebrations with some cavalier strokeplay to keep them wicketless for the rest of the morning, and India turned in for lunch on 363-7.

Visibly uncomfortable, Kaif raced off to the pavilion and did not re-emerge after the interval despite a 40-minute rest.

The physically drained Kaif's return to the middle was short-lived

Warne's swift removal of Kumble (bowled) and Harbhajan Singh (caught and bowled) ushered Kaif back to the middle earlier than he would have liked, and with a runner.

A boundary over mid-on marked his return, but Kaif collapsed in the middle of the pitch when forgetting his runner and setting off for a run, and was run-out. He did not take to the field again.

Australia set about eroding their 141-run first-innings deficit in nervy fashion, and were indebted to Patel's patchy keeping skills for keeping their first wicket intact going to tea.

The keeper dropped Matthew Hayden on nought and 21, and the opener soon made India pay with boundaries either side of the wicket.

Australia made a calamitous start to the evening session when, first ball, Justin Langer drove hard at Kumble and edged to Rahul Dravid for 19.

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Kumble struck again when Hayden top-edged a sweep to VVS Laxman at mid-wicket for 39, and at 76-2 Australia looked at the mercy of India's spinners.

But Gilchrist overcame a terribly unsure start to vindicate his own decision to move up the order to number three.

The hard-working keeper-batsman swept religiously against the turning ball and dominated a 45-run stand with Simon Katich, who fell lbw for nine to Zaheer Khan - India's only pace strike of the match.

Australia were looking increasingly comfortable as stumps drew near, but in the dying overs Kumble conjured a sharp-turning wrong'un which collected Gilchrist's leg-stump.

It was a hammer blow for Australia, and though they have six wickets in hand Damien Martyn and nightwatchman Jason Gillespie have much work to do on Sunday morning.

India: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid, V.V.S. Laxman, Mohammad Kaif, Parthiv Patel, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Irfan Pathan, Zaheer Khan.

Australia: Adam Gilchrist (captain), Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden, Simon Katich, Damien Martyn, Darren Lehmann, Michael Clarke, Shane Warne, Jason Gillespie, Michael Kasprowicz, Glenn McGrath.