A fascinating second day of the Test at Arun Jaitley Stadium saw Nathan Lyon rip through India’s top order before the tail fought back to restrict Australia to a first innings lead of only one run, a lead that was extended to 62 by stumps for the loss of Usman Khawaja.

In 2013 Lyon took nine wickets during the only other Test that he’s played in Delhi including 7-94 in India’s first innings, his second best Test return. Having had only one success in the first Test last week, he seemed to relish the opportunity to bowl again at the stadium finishing with 5-67.

He caused problems as soon as he came into the attack striking four times in the opening session as he found significant turn bowling from the Pavilion End.

His seventh delivery of the day crashed into KL Rahul’s pads and India wasted a review as the opener was dismissed for 17 to end a 46 run opening partnership.

Cheteshwar Pujara walked out to a raucous reception acknowledging that he was playing in his 100th Test. Two balls later and he should have been going back in the same direction as Lyon rapped him on the front pad. Pat Cummins decided not to review, not because it wasn’t a good shout but Australia were already down to their last review having burned two in the opening fifteen overs. Replays showed that the delivery should have notched up Lyon’s second wicket.

In his next over Lyon got a ball to grip and turn past Rohit Sharma’s bat as he tried to play to the leg side with the ball crashing into middle stump as India’s captain fell for 32.

Pujara’s let off didn’t last long. Virat Kohli took a single off Lyon’s next ball and when India’s number three was hit on the pad again Australia were so confident that they risked their final review. This time they got the call right as Pujara was dismissed for a seven ball duck.

There were only two things that were not going Australia’s way: news that David Warner would be missing the remainder of the Test and their use of the review system.

Warner had been feeling unwell after taking a nasty blow on the helmet off the last ball of Mohammed Siraj’s fifth over on the opening day. Matt Renshaw, who will be allowed to bat but not bowl, took his place as a concussion substitute for the remainder of the match. Later, it was also confirmed that Warner had also suffered a hairline fracture to his left elbow that would put him in doubt for the rest of the tour.

In Todd Murphy’s opening over Australia applied the review system poorly again, using up their final review in the process. Shreyas Iyer flicked at the fourth ball and it cannoned off his thigh pad to Marnus Labuschagne but replays showed there had been no inside edge. With only three wickets down Australia had used all of their reviews.

In terms of removing Iyer it made no difference. Peter Handscomb is a fine close in fielder and when Iyer flicked again and this time connected, the ball flew to the Victorian captain at short leg. After bouncing off his arm and body Handscomb reacted quickly enough to cradle the ball in his grasp with Iyer dismissed for 4.

Lyon’s morning’s work saw him return the figures for 4-21 from his nine overs and India were in trouble at 4-88 at lunch.

It was the turn of Australia’s junior spinners after the break to get among the wickets. Kohli and Ravi Jadeja had started to stage a badly needed recovery working the ball into the gaps and pouncing on anything dropping short. Having taken seven wickets in his debut innings, it was Murphy that broke the 59 run fifth wicket sliding a straighter one past Jadeja’s bat when he’d scored 26.

Kohli was playing in front of his home crowd but his Test match form has slumped recently. It’s been over three years since he last scored a century and more than twelve months and eleven innings since he made fifty. Any hope of Kohli finding some of the old magic was stopped dead in its tracks when Matt Kuhnemann secured his maiden Test wicket. It came down to the umpire’s call but the ball had struck Kohli’s pad marginally before his bat and he departed lbw for 44.

Having taken the first four wickets, a five wicket return for Lyon was always on the cards. As it turned out it only took him five balls of his next spell before he had the chance to hold the ball aloft. Srikar Bharat had scored 6 when he went for the sweep but Lyon’s extra bounce found the top edge with Steve Smith running back from slip to take a simple catch.

India were 7-139 and still trailing by 124 runs and desperately needed their last few wickets to reduce the deficit as they had in Nagpur and that’s exactly what they did.

Axar Patel hit his highest Test score in the first Test and was the aggressor in a 114 run eighth wicket partnership with Ravi Ashwin.

It’s not often that a new ball on the sub-continent can change an innings but this time it worked for Cummins. He took it as soon as it was available and it paid off immediately as Ashwin, on 37, chipped the first ball he faced against it to Renshaw who took an excellent catch at square leg with India still trailing by 10 runs.

Murphy was asked to share the new ball and saw Patel smash his third six off the fourth delivery but, going for another big shot, Patel slammed the last ball of the over to Cummins at mid-on who held on to a very tough chance as the spinner was dismissed for 72.

Cummins had been swapping his bowlers around regularly and despite Murphy’s success Kuhnemann immediately replaced him at the Pavilion End. The change worked as he bowled Mohammed Shami for 2 with his third delivery to see India dismissed for 262 giving Australia a one run first innings lead.

It was Travis Head that strolled out with Khawaja to replace David Warner at the top of the order but the new opening partnership did not last long. Having scored 6, Khawaja swept the fifth ball of Jadeja’s first over directly to Shreyas Iyer who held on to a sharp catch at leg slip.

When Labuschagne came to the crease he and Head showed some BazBall style intent as they tried to make use of the hard ball. They added 38 runs for the second wicket off 37 balls to give Australia a handy lead of 62 runs at the close.

More to come.