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Ganguly hit a magnificent 102 - and put on 109 runs for the seventh wicket with Mahendra Singh Dhoni (92) - as India were bowled out for 469 just before tea.

Australia closed on 102 for four, still trailing by 367 runs, with Michael Hussey unbeaten on a 97-ball 37 at stumps.

Ganguly, in the company of nightwatchman Ishant Sharma, had consolidated India's position at the start with a cautious approach. Ishant (nine) had looked in better touch before Peter Siddle got him to fend off a short delivery straight into the hands of Simon Katich at leg gully.

Dhoni pulled Brett Lee for a boundary off the very first delivery he faced and soon after deposited a delivery from Siddle over the fine leg boundary for the first six of the innings.

Ganguly's timing and precision returned as he brought up his 16th Test century by tucking leg-spinner Cameron White for a boundary to square leg - but he departed soon after when he tried to hoist a White delivery over the ropes, only to pick out Lee at mid-off.

Dhoni then took centre stage, hammering a total of eight boundaries and four sixes as he charged into the 90s.

The urgency was more pronounced as he lost Harbhajan Singh (one) and Zaheer Khan (two) in quick succession before he was given out lbw eight runs short of a second Test hundred.

Zaheer then gave India a flying start with the ball, bowling Matthew Hayden for a duck via an inside edge. Ishant dismissed Ricky Ponting for just five, while leg-spinner Mishra snared Katich for 33.

Michael Clarke and Hussey propped up the innings with a 40-run fourth-wicket stand, but Mishra struck again to dismiss Clarke for 23 with the final ball of the day.