Australia has closed day three of the third Test against India at the SCG in a commanding position, leading by 197 runs while only two wickets down in its second innings.
On a day that many expected would decide the match, Australia's bowling unit was superbly supported in the field to bowl India out for 244, before a composed evening with the bat further extended the lead.
Pat Cummins was the pick of Australia's bowlers, finishing with 4-29 from 21 impeccable overs, but three run outs were equally as costly for India as the match began to slip away.
Despite the loss of both Australian openers, Marnus Labuschagne (47*) and Steve Smith (29*) steered Australia to 2-103 at stumps and look set to add to the advantage on day four.
India started the day with the formidable pair of Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara at the crease, and both set out defying the tight lines and lengths of the Australian quicks.
Runs dried up, and eventually Rahane fell trying to force a Cummins delivery to third man, chopping onto his own stumps for 22.
Scoreboard pressure was just as influential in the next wicket as, in trying for a desperate single, Hanuma Vihari took on Josh Hazlewood at mid off. The big quick swooped low to his right and, in one horizontal action, threw down the stumps to enact a miraculous run out.
While those were the only wickets of the morning session, Pujara's slow scoring rate meant India hadn't made any ground in the game. Pujara would eventually complete the slowest 50 of his Test career, but it came at a cost.
Rishabh Pant tried to pick up the pace, but was caught behind not long after Cummins struck him with a painful blow on the elbow, one that saw him sent for scans and forced him to hand the gloves to sub Wriddhiman Saha for the second innings.
Only a few balls later, Cummins made the big breakthrough. An inch-perfect delivery caught the thumb of Pujara on its way through to keeper Tim Paine, ending a dogged resistance and sparking a collapse.
Ravichandran Ashwin was lazy between the wickets and became victim of another run out, before Navdeep Saini's inauspicious Test batting debut ended with a meek push to short cover off the bowling of Mitchell Starc.
Labuschagne put forward his own entry for run out of the day, scurrying away from short leg before throwing down the non-striker's stumps with Jasprit Bumrah short of his ground. With that wicket, India had lost 5-21.
Ravindra Jadeja had a brief and somewhat successful slog, at the cost of another injury when Starc struck his thumb, but Mohammed Siraj's nick through to Paine brought India's innings to a disappointing end.
Australia had the final session to navigate, and both Will Pucovski and David Warner looked positive at the crease.
The former was undone by a fantastic ball by Siraj that caught the edge, while Warner was out LBW while trying to slog-sweep Ashwin.
But Labuschagne and Smith had few such problems, pacing themselves early before adding some late evening runs as the lead began to swell.
Both batsmen will be eyeing big scores on day four, with Australia's thoughts no doubt on setting an insurmountable target and getting busy with the ball tomorrow.
Look back at how the action unfolded in our live blog.
