89th over: Australia 220-7 (Perry 59, Wareham 0) Goswami to Perry, battle of the champs, and Perry is so safety conscious that even when she gets a full toss she drives it very correctly straight to mid-off for no score. The last ball jags back in, so on track that it lodges right between Perry’s thighs in front of the stumps. That also helps show the umpire that it would have gone over the bails, so the polite appeal is refused.

88th over: Australia 220-7 (Perry 59, Wareham 0) The Australians bat deep, Wareham is very good with the stick, but if she falls quickly it could be interesting seeing the young debutants Darcie Brown and Stella Campbell trying to get these runs.

Another one goes down! One delivery after Ellyse Perry gets dropped at gully by Deepti Sharma. There’s shadow halfway across the ground: the batter is in sunlight and the cordon is in shade. Perry gets a thick and fast outside edge that goes low to Deepti below knee height, and she can only parry it away. But that gets them a run, and the very next ball Meghna swings a ball down the line of the stumps to beat the left-hander’s defensive shot.

Eight runs left to the follow-on mark.

87th over: Australia 219-6 (Perry 58, Molineux 2) Good yorker from Goswami, nearly gets through Molineux. I think it’s a slower-ball variation, and it floats up to the stumps but the bat just comes down in time. Goswami follows it up with a slant across the left-hander that beats her edge as Molineux drives.

86th over: Australia 219-6 (Perry 58, Molineux 2) A couple of runs for Molineux, bringing the follow-on within 10 runs as she clips a straight ball from Meghna to the leg side. Then get a leg bye for a deflection going in the same direction.

85th over: Australia 216-6 (Perry 58, Molineux 0) Now Perry is getting twitchy. She’s the one facing Goswami, and doesn’t score from the over but does nearly run herself out. Plays it straight, gets a long way down before realising that Molineux isn’t running and has to go back.

84th over: Australia 216-6 (Perry 58, Molineux 0) Sophie Molineux a very good bat, she’s in at eight.

Lovely bowling from Meghna. Uses that angle in at the stumps and then swings it away a fraction. Just enough to take Sutherland’s edge after making her commit to playing down the line of the approaching ball. Australia still a dozen runs from the follow-on.

83rd over: Australia 214-5 (Perry 58, Sutherland 1) Sutherland facing Goswami again, and again just wants to get through the over. She does lean into one nice drive that gets stopped at cover, but otherwise defends stoutly and leaves when there’s width until the final ball, when she gets going with a run to cover.

82nd over: Australia 213-5 (Perry 58, Sutherland 0) Meghna Singh with the new ball, swinging away but Perry is happy to use her hands to follow the swing with an open face and drive square for two runs. Meghna gets no-balled later and that’s a back-footer! That’s rare. She cut the return crease with her back foot while trying to bowl as wide on the crease as possible.

81st over: Australia 210-5 (Perry 56, Sutherland 0) New ball for India after 80 overs, taken right away by Goswami. She gets a full over at Sutherland, who isn’t even thinking about scoring at this stage. Survives.

80th over: Australia 210-5 (Perry 56, Sutherland 0) A couple more runs for Perry cutting Gayakwad away. Perry hasn’t gone into her shell, tries a few shots through the off side but can’t beat the field.

79th over: Australia 208-5 (Perry 54, Sutherland 0) Australia 18 runs shy of the follow-on mark as Annabel Sutherland comes out to bat on her Test debut. She blocks her first three balls.

And that’s it for Gardner. Wanting to up the ante after raising her fifty, she takes a step forward at Deepti and tries to lash over extra cover. The bowler tossed that one up invitingly. But Gardner is leaning back on the shot, not powering through it, and only skims to hard at mid-off where Raj takes a good catch diving forward.

78th over: Australia 208-4 (Perry 54, Gardner 51) Again the bounce of Gayakwad has Gardner cutting in the air! This time wide of the backward point catcher and it flies away for four. Raj adjusts the field: slip, silly point, silly mid off, three catchers close on the off side. But Gayakwad bowls too straight, and Gardner tucks two runs to midwicket for her own milestone, which has come around much more briskly than Perry’s. She adds another by darting a single from the last ball, surviving a direct hit at the non-striker’s end and electing against trying to run an overthrow.

77th over: Australia 201-4 (Perry 54, Gardner 44) Now Deepti is back, having been brought around to take Meghna’s end. Perry is using her feet very decisively, getting right back to take Deepti around the corner for a run but safely past the short leg catcher.

76th over: Australia 199-4 (Perry 53, Gardner 43) Gayakwad is back, so the extra Deepti over was just to help the left-armer switch ends. She bowls too short to Gardner though, and again we see the cut for four. Then a couple of twos pushed through the off side. The distance to the follow-on mark has come down to 29 runs.

75th over: Australia 191-4 (Perry 45, Gardner 35) Bumper from Meghna Singh. Decent height but she loses it down the leg side, and Perry is quick to pull it for four! Away through fine leg. That’s the first ball of the over. The final ball is on the pads, and Perry glances it to the same spot on the fence for her fifty.

That makes four 50+ scores in her last four Test innings.

74th over: Australia 183-4 (Perry 45, Gardner 35) Interesting that Gayakwad was the spinner taken off when she was the one who created two chances in her first over. Deepti continues instead, but again drops short and this time it’s Gardner punishing her with a cut shot. Well in front of square, it ends up at the cover boundary. Two close catchers on the leg side for Gardner, so Deepti can’t afford width.

73rd over: Australia 177-4 (Perry 44, Gardner 30) Mithali Raj swaps things around and brings swing bowler Meghna Singh back. Again just a single for Gardner, and Perry sees out the rest.

72nd over: Australia 176-4 (Perry 44, Gardner 29) Starting to work Deepti’s bowling around a bit more effectively, the Australians, with a couple of singles and then Perry using her cut shot again for two more runs. She’s moving sedately towards her minor milestone.

71st over: Australia 172-4 (Perry 41, Gardner 28) Down the track from Gardner and bang! Clobbers Gayakwad over mid-on’s head and down to the rope.

70th over: Australia 168-4 (Perry 41, Gardner 24) Perry comes down the wicket to attack Deepti, driving hard along the ground but finding mid-on who is set quite deep. Gardner had got off strike with an outside edge.

69th over: Australia 167-4 (Perry 41, Gardner 23) Working that leg-side nudge profitably now is Gardner, rotating strike to get away from Gayakwad. The bowler gives Perry width, and she plays a cut shot so late that the ball was almost past the stumps when she made contact. Nor was it short. But that is Perry’s precision. Four runs.

68th over: Australia 162-4 (Perry 37, Gardner 22) One run flicked square by Gardner from Deepti’s over.

67th over: Australia 161-4 (Perry 37, Gardner 21) The left-arm spinner Gayakwad on to bowl, and Gardner is dropped! Cut shot, top edge as it’s spinning away from her, and that edge slices to backward point where Vastrakar puts it down lunging to her left. Fairly straightforward chance, no dive required, but she drops it. Then from the last ball of the over, Perry is hit on the pad but the appeal is denied. That looked very straight, but her bat was right next to the pad and there was doubt about which was hit first. Also she had a good stride down the pitch, so height could have been a factor.

66th over: Australia 160-4 (Perry 37, Gardner 20) Deepti Sharma on to bowl some off-spin, and Perry will cash in on anything loose. Outside leg stump and Perry gets down on one knee and sweeps behind square for four.

65th over: Australia 156-4 (Perry 33, Gardner 20) Great running from Gardner. Perry inside edges from Goswami, trickling towards midwicket, and isn’t thinking about a run at all but Gardner is off to the danger end and yells to call her through. Would have been a real hamstring-tester had it been Perry stretching for that run.

64th over: Australia 155-4 (Perry 32, Gardner 20) Beautiful bowling from Vastrakar. The ball ends up at fine leg for four again, but this time it was a curling inswinger, slightly short of yorker length, that Gardner just manages to get an inside edge on to keep it out of her stumps. Then when Vastrakar bowls length, she has Gardner cutting, a flail of a shot, and beaten by bounce.

63rd over: Australia 151-4 (Perry 32, Gardner 16) Off strike against Goswami first ball is Gardner, nudged to leg. Perry plays out the rest of the over, and gets drawn into a shot that beats her edge, just pushing outside off stump.

62nd over: Australia 150-4 (Perry 32, Gardner 15) Vastrakar gives Perry a gift first up, a leg-stump half volley that she can glance simply for four. Australia close the follow-on gap to 78.

61st over: Australia 146-4 (Perry 28, Gardner 15) Goswami starts things off. Straight into her good line just outside the off stump, Gardner watchfully defending and pushing one or two towards cover. The sixth ball is too full and Gardner drives a couple of runs.

A big job today for Jhulan Goswami, the pace leader. She bowled 14 overs yesterday and will need to lead the line, with seamers Pooja Vastrakar and Meghna Singh in support. If India are to get the incisions they need, you suspect that Goswami with her pace and bounce will have to be the one wielding the scalpel.

If India don’t get to bat again, will we have seen Mithali Raj for the last time in Test cricket? She played her first all the way back in 2002. And there’s a good chance she’ll retire after the 50-over World Cup in February. That would be that, as far as one of the greats is concerned.

We’ll have 100 overs in the day, so there is still time for India if they’re good enough. But batting conditions have been pretty chill throughout the match, though we’ve also lost some time to rain.