Summary

Live Reporting

by Matthew Henry & Timothy Abraham

  1. Australia are beginning to tighten their grip on this match...

    Which way is it going? Matthew Henry is on hand to talk you through the business end of it.

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  2. Geoff Lemon
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    It's hard to hit a sweep shot with more power than that.

  3. Aus 159-2

    Cameron Green gets down well for a big man as he sweeps a delivery given a bit more air by Jacob Bethell for four.

    England, and Harry Brook, need to conjure a wicket from somewhere here.

  4. Sir Alastair Cook
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    England have spoken about taking wickets and Harry Brook has had a slip in but that means there is a huge gap at fine leg.

    Every time there are a few dots Australia find the boundary to release the pressure. They are pacing it very well.

  5. Aus 152-2

    Deja vu as Liam Livingstone's over starts and ends in a boundary.

    A horror full toss from Livingstone is biffed away for four by Cameron Green then Travis Head latches on to a floaty one down leg and whips it to the fence.

  6. Aus 143-2

    Target 316

    Think that might be the text of the day...

    Cameron Green clinically sweeps Jacob Bethell's first ball for four but the 20-year-old regains his composure for the next four balls.

    A deft dab from Travis Head then brings him another four.

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    As he’s passed 50 I thought it would be a good time to bring up that Travis Head helped me sober up when I was paralytic drunk on the Greek island of Kos in 2013 and sat with me in a ditch outside a club giving me bits of a baguette until my mates turned up. Met up with him later in the summer when he was playing for Hampshire's under age squads. Fantastic gent.

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  8. Geoff Lemon
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Head just looks like a player who shouldn't score as many as he does, fundamentally.

  9. Sir Alastair Cook
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    How often do you see Travis Head hit a six, then play and miss. Yet his record is incredible.

  10. Aus 134-2

    Liam Livingstone is round the wicket to Travis Head but the Aussie left-handed opener punishes one that is dragged down by the England spinner.

    Head swivels on his heels and hauls it into the stands.

  11. (Said in Peter Kay voice) Ave it!

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  12. Geoff Lemon
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    Rashid is really tieing things up.

  13. Aus 127-2

    Adil Rashid continues as Harry Brook sticks with his premier spinner, even though Australia seemed to have the measure of him a little bit in the previous over.

    Four dots from Rashid bookended by a single apiece for Cameron Green and Travis Head.

  14. Sir Alastair Cook
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    England will be thinking as the ball gets softer and the pitch slower or does the dew come down and it becomes easier to bat.

    The advantage for Australia is they don't have to go as hard as England did.

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  15. Green survives

    It's a leg-break from Liam Livingstone but it has him outside line, so the decision is overturned. Cameron Green was utterly convinced it was not out.

  16. Sir Alastair Cook
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Green didn't even ask Travis Head. He went straight for the review.

  17. Alison Mitchell
    Commentator on BBC Test Match Special

    Cameron Green doesn't think he is out.

  18. Australia review

    Cameron Green sweeps the final ball of Liam Livingstone's over and is struck on the toe. It's given out on field by umpire Alex Wharf, but Australia all-rounder Green immediately reviews it.

  19. Aus 122-2

    A stilfed England appeal after Adil Rashid gets one to skip on and hit the pad of Cameron Green but there's nothing doing.

  20. Sir Alastair Cook
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    This will be a test of Harry Brook's captaincy. He has changed the field a lot and still has a slip in.