When India was struggling at 221/7 on Saturday, Sundar and Reddy's crucial stand of 127 runs provided much-needed stability to the innings reducing the deficit to 116 runs.
By the end of Day 3, India had rallied to 358/9, but still trails Australia's first-innings total by 116 runs with Reddy standing unbeaten with Mohammed Siraj.
Nitish Kumar Reddy and Washington Sundar's crucial 105-run stand helped India to fight back against Australia at the ongoing Melbourne Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on Saturday.
After the end of play on Day 2 of the Melbourne Test between Australia and India, all-rounder Washington Sundar expressed confidence in the team's ability to stage a comeback on the third day of the ongoing boxing-day Test match.
The two teams have shared the spoils in the opening ICC World Test Championship matches in Perth and Adelaide. India secured a commanding 295-run victory in the series opener, while Australia bounced back in the pink-ball Test with a 10-wicket win.
The Adelaide test will kickstart from December 6 onwards, with India heading into the game with a mental and physical edge over the Aussies who were left devastated by Bumrah's bowling and captaincy during a 295-run loss at Perth's Optus Stadium in the first Test.
Cheteshwar Pujara doesn't want to see a change in India's bowling attack for the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia next week.
India bounced back from a whitewash series loss to New Zealand at home in the most dominant way possible, thrashing Australia by 295 runs at Perth's Optus Stadium despite being bundled out for 150 runs in the first innings.
Big names like KL Rahul (26), Virat Kohli (5) and Rishabh Pant (37) failed to get big scores. Youngsters Yashasvi Jaiswal (0), Dhruv Jurel (11), Washington Sundar (4) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (41) could not do much either.
The Perth Test will kickstart from November 22 onwards. Both sides, placed at the top two spots of the ICC World Test Championship points tally will be aiming to make their chances for the final stronger. While India seek to bounce back after a rare, but a humiliating home setback against Ne