India have set Australia a near-impossible target of 272 in the final session of the women's cricket Test on the Gold Coast.
Australia will need to score at about eight and a half runs an over off around 32 overs, if the game at Metricon Stadium isn't called off early.
Punam Raut finished 41 not out as India scored 29 off seven overs after tea before India declared at 3-135.
Openers Shafali Verma (52) and Smriti Mandhana (31) gave India a terrific launchpad by putting on 70 in 17.5 overs, but the run rate dipped after two quick wickets to finger spinners Sophie Molineux and Ashleigh Gardner.
Leg-spinner Georgia Wareham, who had been sparingly used, grabbed her first Test wicket by trapping Verma.
Earlier, Australian captain Meg Lanning declared 136 behind on 9-241 shortly before the scheduled first break on the final day of the pink-ball clash, with Ellyse Perry unbeaten on 68 off 203 balls.
Earlier, Perry and Gardner (51) extended their overnight partnership to 89.
In her last four innings Perry has scored 472 runs and been dismissed just once and Gardner notched her first Test fifty.
Gardner's dismissal triggered a collapse of 5-32 either side of the second new ball.
India's pace trio Pooja Vastraka (3-49) Meghna Singh (2-54) and Jhulan Goswami (2-49) caused plenty of problems with their swing and movement and were well supported by Deepti Sharma (2-36).
There were a minimum of 71 overs remaining when Australia declared.
Perry did have some luck in the first session.
She might have been lbw on 37 and was dropped on 58 and 61.
