Australia v India 214/15 - 2nd Test, Day 4, Lunch: Mitchell Johnson's three-wicket burst leaves India in trouble at 157/7

Mitchell Johnson took 3 wickets in the morning session of day four

Brisbane, Dec 20 - A dismal batting performance by the Indians saw them collapsing to 157 for seven, leading by just 60 runs, at lunch on day four of the second Test against Australia at the Gabba on Saturday.

It all went wrong for the Indians on the fourth morning.

Overnight batsman Shikhar Dhawan (batting 41) was injured after he was hit on the wrist while batting in the nets and didn't come out to bat.

Cheteshwar Pujara (43) came out to bat with Virat Kohli (1) and things just kept getting worse for the Indians after that.

Kohli never seemed prepared and was very tentative and was ultimately castled by Mitchell Johnson, who drew first blood.

Johnson was all over India after that; bowling with pace and menace on a pitch that was beginning to get a little difficult to bat on.

India went from 71 for one to 87 for five to all but hand Australia the match.

There were a couple of short partnerships between Pujara and Ravichandran Ashwin (19) and Pujara and the returning Dhawan, but nothing substantial enough to stem the tide of Australian dominance.

Johnson was back at his best, with Shane Watson and the five-wicket hero from the first innings -- debutant pacer Josh Hazlewood – right on the money too.

Mitchell Starc was a little wayward as always, but bowled a good ball to get Ashwin out.

That decision looked a little iffy, as did Mahendra Singh Dhoni's lbw.

India, meanwhile, came out with a statement complaining about the practice nets, which they feel have been uneven. The Indians said that they had been requesting for fresh pitches for the last two days, but they had only got used pitches to practice on.

India 1^st ?innings: 408 all out

Australia

Chris Rogers c Dhoni b Yadav 55

David Warner c Ashwin b Yadav 29

Shane Watson c Dhawan b Ashwin 25

Steven Smith b I Sharma 133

Shaun Marsh c Ashwin b Yadav 32

Mitchell Marsh b I Sharma 11

Brad Haddin c Pujara b Aaron 6

Mitchell Johnson c Dhoni b I Sharma 67

Mitchell Starc b Ashwin 52

Nathan Lyon c R Sharma b Aaron

Josh Hazlewood not out 32

Extras (w 5, nb 10, lb 4) 19

Total (all out in 109.4 overs) 505

Fall of wickets: 1-47 (Warner, 8.3 overs), 2-98 (Watson,19.4),3-121 (Rogers,24.5), 4-208 (S Marsh,46.5), 5-232 (M.Marsh,56.6), 6-247 (Haddin, 61.1),7-395 (Johnson,87.1), 8-398 (Smith,87.6), 9-454 (Lyon,96.2), 10-505 (Starc,109.4)

Bowling

Ishant Sharma 23-2-117-3

Varun Aaron 26-1-145-2

Umesh Yadav 25-4-101-3

RaviChandran Ashwin 33.4-4-128-2

Rohit Sharma 2-0-10-0

India 2nd innings

Murali Vijay b Starc 27

Shikhar Dhawan batting 41

Cheteshwar Pujara c Lyon b Hazlewood 43

Virat Kohli b Johnson 1

Ajinkya Rahane c Lyon b Johnson 10

Rohit Sharma c Haddin b Johnson 0

Mahendra Singh Dhoni lbw b Hazlewood 0

Ravichandran Ashwin c Haddin b Starc 19

Umesh Yadav batting 7

Extras (lb 2, w 5, nb 2) 9

Total for (seven wickets in 47 overs) 157

Fall of wickets: 1-41 (Vijay, 10.3 overs), 2-76 (Kohli, 26.1), 3-86 (Rahane, 28.3), 4-86 (RG Sharma, 28.5), 5-87 (Dhoni, 29.2), 6-117 (Ashwin, 36.4), 7-143 (Pujara, 44.4)

Bowling

Mitchell Johnson 14-4-54-3

Josh Hazlewood 11-0-51-2

Mitchell Starc 8-1-27-2

Shane Watson 11-4-19-1

Nathan Lyon 4-0-11-0

Match Details

Test debut: Josh Hazlewood (Australia)

Umpires: Marais Erasmus (South Africa) and Ian Gould (England)

TV umpire: Simon Fry

Match referee: Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)