Spinner Nathan Lyon continued Australia's fightback, limiting India to 272 with a career-best 7-94.Resuming on 266 for eight - having bowled out the tourists for 262 - the Indian tail had hardly settled before Lyon snared the final two wickets of Ishant Sharma and Pragyan Ojha with the first two balls of his first full over. Only Peter Siddle's 50 offered further resistance as India reached the 155-run target with the loss of four wickets.Glenn Maxwell opened the batting in place of Ed Cowan, but perished in the fifth over for eight as Jadeja claimed his first wicket on an action-packed day. Lyon picked up where he left off on day two with the wickets of Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli in India's second innings to take his total to nine for the Test.David Warner and Phil Hughes soon followed before Watson was dismissed by Pragyan Ojha for five and Australian crumbled to 94-7, with tail-end pace bowler Siddle proving the sternest test. But the defeat ended a miserable series for the tourists, who dropped four of their players for the third Test, including vice-captain Shane Watson for a breach of team discipline.
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