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Tea on day four - Australia 465-6<br />

Bad light stopped play<br />

It’s 2:52pm local time and the covers are coming onto the pitch, so you’d say that rain is imminent at<br />

the MCG.<br />

Updated at 4.13am GMT<br />

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3.52am GMT 03:52<br />

Steve Smith reaches his century!<br />

114th over: Australia 465-6 (Smith 100, Starc 7)<br />

Umpires Ravi and Gould conference for a good minute or so before the start of this Sohail Khan over<br />

but decide against departing for bad light, though they’re signalling with various hand gestures to the<br />

ground staff, so we can’t be far away from a downpour.<br />

Steve Smith takes strike, with three to get for his hundred, and cracks a square drive straight at point<br />

and the safe stopping hands of Yasir. Three balls left. Another umpire conference. We’re not here to<br />

see you guys! <strong>The</strong>y decide against departure. Cheers around the ground! <strong>The</strong>n… Smith cracks one<br />

through cover and sets off for the three runs that’ll do the job. He gets there! It’s another super<br />

hundred from the Aussie skipper, who salutes the crowd after reaching his milestone from 168<br />

deliveries across 287 minutes of almost flawless Test batting. That’s 17 Test hundred now. He’s a<br />

batting machine.<br />

AND THEN THEY DO GO OFF! That’ll be it for now. Five balls into the Sohail Khan over we’ll<br />

have delay. Early tea? I guess so.

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