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.

Australian openers Usman Khawaja and Nathan McSweeney safely negotiated a stop-and-start first session of the third cricket test against India at a rainy and soggy Gabba on Saturday. At one point the Gabba outfield was almost entirely submerged in water as Brisbane was pelted with rain.

Bumrah registered yet another five-wicket haul and he finally got the better of Travis Head, who walked back after scoring 152.