India has removed virtually all hope of an Australian victory in the fourth Test with another day of supreme batting against the hosts, highlighted by big centuries for Cheteshwar Pujara and Rishabh Pant.
The pattern of the first day's play continued at the SCG, with Australia struggling to take wickets as India piled on the runs effortlessly, eventually reaching 7-622 in the final session.
That gave Australia's new opening pair of Marcus Harris and Usman Khawaja 10 awkward overs to survive before stumps.
Their first stand together looked over before Khawaja had even scored a run, when he edged Mohammed Shami through to Pant, but the diving wicketkeeper, perhaps tired from his century earlier in the day, dropped the chance.
Harris and Khawaja made it to the end of the day with the team 0-24, trailing by 598, but the story of day two was India's batting as the tourists declared for the third-straight time in this series.
Cheteshwar Pujara continued his superlative tour, batting with poise and precision to accumulate 193 runs from 373 balls. His failure to reach the double ton was the only thing resembling disappointment in India's day.
He was eventually dismissed after lunch when he clipped a return catch to Nathan Lyon.
A wicket in the first session, with Hanuma Vihari perhaps unlucky to be given out caught at short leg despite replays not showing much of a top edge, gave Australia some hope of a better day in the field.
But after that it was a long wait until Pujara fell in the 130th over.
Even after that morale-boosting wicket, the 21-year-old Pant simply continued where Pujara left off, albeit in a more dashing manner, notching his second Test ton after tea from 137 balls.
Australia's punishment was far from over, as Pant and Ravindra Jadeja continued to pummel the exhausted bowlers to the tune of 204 runs off 224 balls for the seventh wicket.
The tourists' torture finally came to an end when Jadeja ran past Lyon's 344th delivery of the innings and was clean bowled.
Look back at how day two unfolded in the live blog below.
