STUMPS: AUSTRALIA 4-264, LEAD OF 503. DAY THREE CALLED OFF FOR BAD LIGHT.



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The unpredictable Brisbane weather has concluded play with bad light curtailing Australia's dominance with the bat. New Zealand may have got a late flurry of wickets as Australia threw the bat around, but it's been another awesome day for the host's newest opening pairing. A 237-run opening stand has put New Zealand completely out of the game (if it was ever in it to begin with), after the tourists were dismissed for 317.





Kane Williamson was the star of the show at the beginning of day three with a lovely 140 to showcase his class, but he was mostly isolated throughout the innings. Australia's first innings of 4-556 was always a Mt Everest of a tall order, and so it proved, with Australia now ballooning its lead to 503 runs.





Joe Burns was in stunning form to bag his maiden Test century, while David Warner became just the third man in the history of Test cricket (after Sunil Gavaskar and Ricky Ponting) to make three sets of twin tons in Tests.



