Australia must win the Melbourne Test to go to Steve Waugh's farewell Sydney Test on Friday with a shot at winning the series after the setback of going down in the second Adelaide Test by four wickets after scoring 556 batting first.
The Australians had to work hard for wickets for much of the fourth day and grabbed the prized scalps of Sachin Tendulkar (44) and V.V.S. Laxman (18) in the middle session after the tourists went to lunch at 109 for two.
Williams claimed the psychologically important wicket of Tendulkar with one that left him off the pitch, the attempted drive finding Gilchrist.
It was Tendulkar's highest score of an underachieving series after previous scores of 0, 1, 37 and 0.
The Little Master looked to be re-gathering his touch in his 79-ball stint in 107 minutes as he put on 87 for the third wicket with Dravid.
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