India’s pace attack triggered another top order batting collapse but a second successive century for Travis Head and a long overdue hundred for Steven Smith gave Australia the ascendancy after the second day of the third cricket test.

Steve Smith scored a Test century after a gap of 25 innings, the longest ever drought in his career, on the second day of the third Test between India and Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane.

The conditions were tough, and Smith faced a testing spell of bowling from India's bowlers, but he weathered the storm