Key Highlights :
1. Kohli guided Nathan Lyon to a hundred, his 75th in international cricket.
2. The hundred came off 241 balls.
3. India are now eight runs behind Australia's first innings score of 480.
4. Kohli's 291-ball innings picked up pace after he reached the milestone.
5. In the first session, Kohli didn't hit a single boundary.
6. He also got a lot of support at the other end while adding 84 for the fifth wicket with Kona Bharat (44 off 88 balls) and another 63 with in-form Axar.
7. The left-arm spinner has now compiled more than 200 runs in this series.
8. All partnerships for the first six wickets was worth more than 50 runs.
9. After scoring 73 runs in the morning, India upped the tempo in the post lunch session.
10. Bharat, who has had a dreadful run with the bat, looked impressive as he pulled and hooked Cameron Green for a couple of sixes when he tried bouncing the batter from around the wicket. He was out to a bat-pad catch at short-leg off Nathan Lyon's bowling and missed out on what could have been a confidence boosting half-century.
11. But once Bharat was out, Kohli hit a flurry of boundaries and also had Axar going after the bowling.
12. The pitch hasn't been easy for scoring with only 73 runs scored off 32 overs in the morning session.
13. Bharat, in fact, played the best shot of the morning, a slog sweep over cow corner off Nathan Lyon for a six
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