Australia need 4 wickets for clean-sweep

Ryan Harris is thrilled to dismiss Rahul Dravid

Adelaide, Jan 27: Autralia now require four wickets in the last for a 4-0 whitewash as the day ended with India at 6 for 166, having been set a target of 500.

Australia had began the day on 50-3, 382 ahead, but Ponting (60 not out) and captain Clarke (37) added 71 for the fourth wicket, that allowed the hosts to declare at 167-5 just after lunch, settting India a victory target of 500.

Having both struggled with the bat in last winter's Ashes, captain Michael Clarke has scored 626 runs (average 125.20) in this series with his predecessor Ricky Ponting making 544 at 108.80.

India lost Gautam Gambhir, who edged Ryan Harris to keeper Brad Haddin in the fifth over and after the dismissal of Virender Sehwag, who smashed 62 from 53 balls, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, the two Indian legends, looked to pull India out of trouble but those hopes were soon died as Dravid's thick edge off the bowling of Ryan Harris was snapped up by Michael Hussey at gully.

The "Little Master", still one short of 100 international centuries, gave a simple bat-pad catch for Lyon. This is Sachin Tendulkar's fifth Test tour of Australia across two decades, but the first in which he has failed to score a century.

VVS Laxman and Virat Kohli fought with a 52-run partnership in the dying stages but both fell in the last 10 minutes of the day.
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