Melbourne: It was a slow trudge out, with head bowed, for India’s captain Rohit Sharma. The imagery just fit. He had just been dismissed for 3, trying to play a tentative pull shot that was a cross between something you play in gully cricket and how a tailender usually responds to a short ball.

Rohit Sharma is desperate to score runs but his form is turning woeful with every passing day. Despite opening the innings in Melbourne, the Indian captain could only muster three runs before getting out to Pat Cummins playing a poor shot.

Indian captain Rohit Sharma's comeback to the top of the order ended in disappointment, as his bad batting form continues in the Boxin Day Test of the

India skipper Rohit Sharma’s wretched run Down Under continued as India slipped to 51/2 at tea on day two of the fourth Test after Australia rode on Steve Smith’s 34th Test century to post a challenging first innings score of 474 in Melbourne.