WTC Final, IND vs AUS highlights: Head's unbeaten 146 and Smith's 95 not out take Australia to 327/3 at Stumps

WTC Final, IND vs AUS, Day 1 Stumps: After 85 overs, Australia 327/3 ( Steve Smith 95, Travis Head 146)

It is Stumps on Day 1 of the the Test match and Australia finish on a high as Steve Smith and Travis Head partnership of 251 has guided the total to 327/3. Travis Head is 146 not-out and Steve Smith is unbeaten on 95. Australia's day through and through!

WTC Final, IND vs AUS Live Score: After 82 overs, Australia 306/3 ( Steve Smith 91, Travis Head 129)

Last 5 overs:

Runs scored:14

Wicket:0

It is just way too easy for Australia at the moment. With 80 overs bowled in the innings, Rohit Sharma has taken the second new ball in a hope to pick at least one wicket late in the day. But the way Travis Head and Steve Smith are playing it looks highly unlikely. The only thing worth waiting for now is if Smith can reach his hundred before Stunmps?

WTC Final, IND vs AUS Live Score: After 77 overs, Australia 292/3 ( Steve Smith 81, Travis Head 125)

Last 5 overs:

Runs scored:21

Wicket:0

Indian bowlers keep bowling and Travis Head and Steve Smith keep playing over after over without any fuss now. India will be desperate to end this day but Stumps is still some minutes away. What can India do to break this partnership?

WTC Final, IND vs AUS Live Score: After 72 overs, Australia 271/3 ( Steve Smith 74, Travis Head 111)

Last 5 overs:

Runs scored:24

Wicket:0

The Indian bowlers look jaded now. They are hoping that Travis Head or Steve Smith make a mistake so that India get a wicket before the close of play. But Head and Smith are determined to not give away their wickets. How many more runs will Head and Smith add together?

WTC Final, IND vs AUS Live Score: After 67 overs, Australia 247/3 ( Steve Smith 57, Travis Head 105)

Last 5 overs:

Runs scored:21

Wicket:0

After Steve Smith's fifty, Travis Head had reached his century. He has hit a brilliant counter-attacking hundred. Head's hundred is the first century in WTC Final, the first Test century outside Australia and also the First Test century against India.Indian players are looking helpless out in the middle. India need some moment of magic to lift themseleves up.

Travis Head hundred is the first:

First hundred in Wold Test Championship Final.

First Test century for Head outside Australia.

First Test century for Head against India.

Travis Head gets his first hundred away from Australia and also the first century against India.

WTC Final, IND vs AUS Live Score: After 62 overs, Australia 226/3 ( Steve Smith 50, Travis Head 97)

Last 5 overs:

Runs scored:34

Wicket:0

Indian shoulders have dropped now. Steve Smith has completed his half-century and Travis Head is on the verge of getting his hundred. The partnership between Smith and Head is now worth 150. The best part of this partnership is that the two batsmen have taken completely different approach in their respective innings. While Head has player fast, Smith has played really slow and ground down the Indian bowlers.

OH! Travus Head has been hit on the back of his helmet by nasty bouncer by Mohammed Siraj. Siraj is testing Head with a few bouncers. The Australian physio is out in the middle to check Head.

WTC Final, IND vs AUS Live Score: After 57 overs, Australia 192/3 ( Steve Smith 36, Travis Head 77)

Last 5 overs:

Runs scored:28

Wicket:0

Nothing seems to be troubling Travis Head and Steve Smith at the moment. The two Aussie batters are well set as Indian bowlers continue to toil hard to break their partnership. Is India missing the services of R Ashwin?. The pitch is now a batting paradise.

Australia's Steven Smith and Australia's Travis Head during their 100-run partnership on Day 1 of the ICC World Test Championship Final between India and Australia at The Oval cricket ground in London.

WTC Final, IND vs AUS Live Score: After 52 overs, Australia 164/3 ( Steve Smith 33, Travis Head 54)

A good first over by Umesh Yadav right after the Tea break as he concedes just one run. Umesh Yadav bowled well before the Tea break and India would hope that he at least keeps things tight from one end.

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Umesh Yadav will bowl the first over after Tea. On strike is Travis Head.

As we wait for the start of the post-Tea session, here is what happend in the second session.

Australia 170/3 at Tea on Day 1

Australia reached 170 for 3 at tea on the the opening day of their World Test Championship Final against India here on Wednesday.

Travis Head and Steve Smith were batting on 60 and 33 respectively at the break as Australia added 97 runs in the second session in 28 overs for the loss of one wicket.

Australia were 73 for 2 at lunch after opener David Warner made 43 off 60 balls.

Mohammed Shami took the lone wicket that fell in the post-lunch session, that of Marnus Labuschagne (26). Mohammed Siraj and Shardul Thakur had taken one wicket each in the morning session.

Brief Scores: Australia 1st Innings: 170 for 3 in 51 overs (David Warner 43, Travis Head 60 batting; Mohammed Siraj 1/40, Shardul Thakur 1/52, Mohammed Shami 1/30).