I reckon there will be a few thousand-mile stares in the Aussie dressing room tonight and at dinner.

Everything has dramatically fallen apart, torn asunder by the brilliant Indians in Perth.

There are, however, still seven wickets that need taking, and Australia will not accept this team simply laying down, meekly succumbing in what is the first of five Tests.

We will be back tomorrow for the likely conclusion of this Test match.

We hope you’ll join us then.

But we can live in hope.

Tomorrow, as they say, is a new day.

If a wicket falls in the final over of the day, you call it there and then.

I bet India would have loved another 10 overs.

But them’s the rules.

Oh wow.

Oh. Wow.

Super Sunday for India, who are so firmly in control of this match that you could almost forgive Australia for conceding and running across the Nullarbor with their tails firmly between their legs for the relative safe haven of Adelaide and the pink ball Test.

But will even those familiar and favourable conditions safe this Australian team from complete an utter capitulation?

After the hiding that India is in the process of inflicting there, I have my doubts.

A stunning day for India.

A complete shocker for the Aussies.

Oh no!

Marnus didn’t play a shot at that! He just left it and the ball angled straight into him!

It looked as dead as you like. Dodo’s have shown more life than that.

Marnus has reviewed because he and Australia needs a miracle.

But they are not going to get it.

Marnus is out for 3!

This could be the last of the day.

“NO RUN!” Marnus screams after defending the first.

Solid defence from Marnus first up.

Siraj is enjoying this, I think. Chatting to Marnus at the end of his follow through.

Marnus leaves outside off and Siraj comes back with some more chat – it’s two-way conversation out there though – don’t worry about that.

Good shot! Marnus punches to long off, a lovely stroke and they will run three.

Around the wicket now, to Khawaja, who blocks sensibly.

No chat from Siraj to Khawaja, notably.

Siraj starts running in and then aborts. Australia won’t mind that.

Solid defence from Khawaja, a stoic figure in a maelstrom of sound of chaos in the middle.

Cummins pushes at the ball outside off stump – reaching for the ball with no footwork, gets a thick edge to Virat Kohli and he has to go for 2!

He punches at his bat – it was too tall an ask for genuine batters, let alone a man who has toiled for two days with the ball in hand.

The night watchman experiment doesn’t work and Marnus Labuschagne has been dragged kicking and screaming from wherever he was hiding to front up for the nine minutes remaining.

There’s 14 minutes to go.

BEATEN! That’s so close to collecting his stumps, a ball that nipped back and just went over the top. Well-judged leave.

INSIDE EDGE! That flies to bat pad on the bounce off the inside edge as Cummins gets forward.

Cummins drives down past Bumrah and they take a single. Nice stroke.

Bumrah, unlike Australia’s bowlers, is targeting the stumps with almost every ball, waiting for the pitch to do its work.

Bat pad, three slips and a gully and Khawaja defends.

FOUR! Down the leg side, Bumrah missing his line and the ball flies to the boundary past the diving Rishabh Pant.

Khawaja defends solidly to end the over.

Outside off, angling in to Usman Khawaja from around the wicket and Khawaja leaves it.

Khawaja clips off this pads and will get at least a couple – no they make it three. Well done Captain Pat for taking responsibility.

BEATEN! What a ball! Wasted on Pat Cummins! That angled in, swung and seamed away and missed the edge and off stump by barely any space at all.

Cummins pushes for a single into the covers next ball.

Khawaja, takes his time to set himself, and defends solidly into the off side.

Pat Cummins is night watchman.

I think he won’t be playing as a Stuart Broad-style nighthawk…

On the pads, but going down leg.

EDGED! That one stayed low too! Hitting the toe of Cummins’ bat.

Oh wow this is going to be tortuous for Australian supporters.

That kept horribly low!

McSweeney lasted three balls.

It was the first ball that was close to being threatening and it struck home.

No use reviewing that.

It was hitting middle half way up.

Nathan McSweeney is on strike, and he watches the ball swing away wide of off stump.

Outside off again, much closer this time, and McSweeney leaves again.

Three slips, a gully, point, all waiting for a sniff of a chance.

LOW! That one stayed very, very low. It was outside off though.

Oh my word what a challenge for this pair.

Australia will be desperately hoping it’s just this pair that has to face India’s bowling over the next 25 minutes or so.

I have a sneaky suspicion that it wont be…