4.13pm Stumps - Play has been called off for the day due to rain. Play will resume tomorrow and all following days at 9.50am AEST with a minimum 98 overs to be bowled.

CA confirm there is a full refund of tickets today as less than 15 overs were bowled.

Basically we have a four-day Test match starting tomorrow at 9.50am. Hopefully there is less rain tomorrow. But the forecast is not good for the remainder of the week.

Thanks for your patience today. Hopefully you can join us tomorrow.

4.10pm Umpires now walking back towards the dressing rooms.

4.07pm Here's Gnasher: "Umpires coming out and walking towards where the ground staff base themselves. We haven't got an official cut-off time, but it would take 45 mins to an hour to get ready is the estimation. Play can officially be extended to 6.20pm, although it's nearly dark by then."

Michael: "Rain has finally stopped on the Gold Coast. Should be stopping in Brisbane shortly" That weather has 78kms to travel Michael. Love your optimism but the wind isn't that strong.

3.55pm The chances of any play are slipping away by the minute. The gaps in the radar are filling in with rain clouds south east of Brisbane, which is where the wind is coming from.

Niranjan: "Just call it a day and get back to hotel...."

Saini: "how is the forecast for tomorrow?" Better. Only a 50% chance of showers and 0-2mm of rain predicted. But Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the forecast is similar to today with a 70% chance of showers each day and anywhere between 0-15mm of rain predicted.

Ray: "These test cricketers are so dedicated. My old team, the Wallis Creek Wackers, woulda been down the pub five hours ago " Suspect you might have hung around just as long Ray if you were remunerated in the same way the current players are.

3.37pm Whoops, raining again! Not very heavy but it is steady - enough to delay proceedings. Hopefully Alex Malcolm returning to the hot seat brings some change in fortunes.

3.30pm Saw some visuals from Gabba. Gautam Gambhir was standing near the tunnel, observing what the umpires were discussing. Nathan Lyon looked comfortable in his tracks. The Indian players, though, are in their whites, albeit in their dressing room. Rohit has opened the glass door numerous times to make sense of the conditions, only to walk back after looking upwards.

You must be wondering how a (potentially) drawn Test could affect the WTC final scenarios? Here's the full breakdown.

3.08pm Some positive signs. As the rain comes to a near-stop, some India support staff members emerge onto the boundary edge.

3.04pm Under usual circumstances, the teams would've taken their "tea" break now. Gnasher tells me that "rain has all but stopped now." However, there's no movement on the covers yet.

Andrew McGlashan: The skies are just threatening to get a little brighter. There is a gap in the rain approaching, but whether it will be large enough to allow more play remains to be seen. As it stands, still raining lightly. There will also be a question of the light as well."

2.45pm Still raining, but not so heavily anymore. Even if the rain stops soon and the surface water goes away, the umpires will still need to decide if the ground is firm enough for fielders to put their body on the line while bowling, running and fielding.

2.35pm Thanks again Alex. Hello everyone. The rain break can be a bummer for fans but it often allows for some free-flowing conversations in the studio between the experts. It gave some time for Zaheer Khan to dissect India's bowling today and how bowlers generate late swing (like Bumrah).

Rags: "Zak is so amazing to listen to. He was such a pleasure to watch in the last few years of his career with such artistic, planned bowling"

2.30pm Sreshth will step into commentary to keep you company.

2.25pm Paddy Upton is no stranger to Indian sport. As a mental conditioning coach, he found top level success, including with the Indian cricket team which won the 2011 World Cup. But the scenes of D Gukesh falling into Upton's arms in tears felt different. From video calls, temperature controls to last-minute flight out, here's how Upton helped Gukesh become world champion.

2.20pm There's a bit happening in Hamilton. New Zealand doing their best to throw away an outstanding start against England.

Kushan : "Now that SA is almost through, How would a draw will impact Aus and Ind WTC finals chances ??" Lots of queries on the WTC final race. S Rajesh has all the scenarios here.

John: "Yeah bowling first was the right call. Teams can now chase so it's just about which decision will give you better batting/bowling conditions. The call India got wrong was the choice of the ball. These blokes not swinging it in these conditions? Got to be a dud ball." India tried to get the ball changed after 3.5 overs. Australia thought they got a dud ball in the second innings in Perth.

2.10pm On cue to answer Cam's question, here is the great man, Gnasher: "Still steady rain with very few breaks on the radar and some more heavy stuff to the south east that may head this way. Despite the fantastic drainage, I'm not confident of seeing more cricket today."

2pm Sathish: "How do you pronounce 'Gnasher'? Is 'n' silent? I always read it as 'Ganeshar' " The 'G' is silent. But it's there as a homage to his greatness.

Ormondroyd : "The drainage at Brisbane stadiums is always amazing to me as a recentish arrival here. We've turned up at Lang Park for soccer to be confronted with a rectangular lake. In the time it takes to buy a pie and a beer, the water vanishes. The Gabba is just the same, it seems." Lang Park is Suncorp Stadium for those who don't know, Brisbane's rectangular sports stadium that hosts football (soccer) and both rugby codes. It literally was a lake in the 2010-11 Queensland floods. But yes, Queensland sporting grounds have world class drainage with good reason.

Cam: "Maximum play we can get is about 2 hours? How close are we to calling it for the day?" Don't know Cam. We're still quite a way off any decision.

1.45pm H. Prasanna : "Based on the current trend, we probably need less than 200 overs for a result. Maybe this can be a full match." We only needed 171.5 overs in Adelaide but there were 294.1 overs bowled in Perth.

Zohaib : "From what I see on live coverage the outfield has dried up magically." Gnasher reports, "Not a single puddle left on the outfield." But it's still raining and won't stop for awhile according to the radar.

ashish: "Why so much talk around india choosing to bowl after winning the toss? Conventional wisdom says to bowl first. Did rohit again make a mistake at the toss?" Lots of comments on this. Six of the last seven Gabba Tests have been won by the side bowling first. The only one that wasn't was in January when Australia fell eight runs short chasing 216 in the fourth innings against the West Indies. Depending on how you viewed that game, you could argue seven out of seven should have been won by the side bowling first. Pat Cummins would have bowled first today even though he went out of his way to avoid admitting it. Pretty tough to assess Rohit's decision based off 13.2 overs when history and the weather suggested it was the sensible choice to bowl first.

1.30pm Meanwhile, the BBL starts tomorrow night in Perth with Scorchers hosting Stars. Good news for Stars. Beau Webster has been released from the Test squad and is flying to Perth today. Unfortunately for Scorchers, Josh Inglis will remain with the Test squad as the spare batter in case they need a concussion sub.

Micko: "Lucky we have those two reserve days Tuesday and Wednesday "

Deepak: "So i guess this is one way of taking the test to day 5"

rickp: "Just read the article on Steve Smiths struggles. The body line approach is strangling him and perhaps he needs to take up guard on or just outside the leg stump. This will remove the finer leg side tickles and give him safety against lbw as he will only get hit by balls swinging down leg, although may open him up to through the gate or inside edges. At least it will get the bowlers thinking again! " This is Gnasher's article for those interested.

1.20pm Thanks Sreshth. It seems very unlikely we'll get on before tea. Even then it might still be raining. There's still plenty of rain on the radar to the south-east, which is where the rain is coming from.

Gnasher: "Outfield less of a lake now. Still raining steadily and plenty more on the radar."

Clint: "Forecast looks bleak for the next 4-5 days. Most likely a rained out / drawn Test. You heard it here first, bookmark it!" Sunday might be OK. But there is a high chance of showers on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Usman: "How is the drainage system at the Gabba?? as i can see a hug puddle of water near the boundry line on one side of the ground" The drainage is extraordinary here for this very reason. They do get a lot of thunderstorms in Brisbane.

1.10pm The rain continues and that means we'll definitely be having a late start to the second session. Alex Malcolm will be back to give you company in a few minutes.

1.02pm The rain has eased out a bit, but hasn't stopped. The forecast, for now, is for drier conditions after tea.

Meanwhile, D Gukesh made history when he became the youngest world chess champion at 18 after beating Ding Liren. Although the final moments of his victory were dramatic, his ultimate plan to snatch the crown away was too simple -- for Gukesh to be Gukesh.

12.50pm A A Musabbir : "still pouring? " -- Cats and dogs as they say.

Vikram : "More elephants and camels than cats and dogs at the moment."

The latest from Andrew McGlashan is that "the road outside the ground has turned into a river."

12.30pm We are ten minutes into the lunch break. We've had two periods of cricket today in between the rain. First, we had 5.3 overs and then another 7.5. In both periods, Khawaja and McSweeney opted to rein their shots in. Searching for rhythm, the Indian seamers weren't helped by the breaks either. A stop-start first session.

Ahan: "First thing you do at the Gabba is not look up or down. Instead you look inside your head and say "well have a bat first.""

12.15pm The teams will break for lunch at 12.20pm.

Hari: "Gabba was where Nasser Hussain won the toss in 2002 Ashes and decided to bowl first. Rest is history. Rohit already made a huge blunder in Bangalore winning toss and batting first in NZ conditions against NZ"

12.07pm "The outfield is a lake," says Andrew McGlashan. "Although the drainage here is quite good, so it would disappear quite quickly once the rain stops."

While it's throwing it down, get yourself up to speed ahead of the start of the BBL tomorrow with our preview

11.51am It has become dark out there, and rain has come along with it too. The batters jog off, and the fielders are also making their way in. The groundstaff bring their buggies onto the park swiftly to cover the pitch.

Samarth: "Who benefits the most from these on and off rain delays?" -- on this occasion, I suspect it is the batting side. Siraj and Akash were just finding their rhythm

Who remembers Vivek Razdan's "Toota Hai Gabba Ka Ghamand" line from the last tour? We caught up with him to get his thoughts on his iconic few lines of commentary. Have a read.

Vishwesh Gaur : "This is much better. One thing that Indian bowlers of 2017-2022 did very well was being disciplined. Even if the wickets were not coming, they used to pound on that good line and length."

Chin: "Am sitting in Brisbane airport and it's absolutely bucketing down here. Flights getting delayed one after the other. Amazing to see no rain 25 minutes away, unless its headed there soon" -- I'm hearing that this could be a longer delay.

Andrew McGlashan says "some more rain on the horizon. This could be heavier"