Summary

  • Smith 64*, Marsh 44*

  • Australia recover from 76-4

  • England slip from 246-4 to 302

  • Vince 83, Malan 56, Stoneman 53

  • Starc 3-77, Cummins 3-85

  • Play resumes at 23:58 GMT on Friday

  1. Postpublished at 01:24 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2017

    Plenty of boos around the Gabba, which means one thing - hello, Stuart Broad!

  2. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 105.1 overs

    Woakes b Lyon 0 (Eng 250-7)

    Bowled him!

    That's a dreadful shot from Chris Woakes. He goes for the big cover drive, leaving a nice, tempting gap between bat and pad, and Lyon spins the ball straight through it. Off go the bails, and off goes Woakes. A four-ball duck for Woakes, and England are up against it.

  3. Postpublished at 01:22 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2017

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at the Gabba

    The entire atmosphere inside the Gabba has changed. The Aussie fans were flat, the Barmy Army singing every time the ball bumped over the boundary rope. Now, the home supporters are energised. The confirmation of Moeen's demise brought the biggest cheer of the match.

    AshesImage source, Reuters
  4. Eng 250-6published at 105 overs

    Bam! Starc fires in the yorker straight away to Bairstow, and it takes the toe-end of Bairstow's bat to keep the ball off the stumps. It all feels very different now. Ooh, not with that, though. That's a dreadful wide from Starc, the ball pitching way down the wicket, and Starc casts a rueful look at his feet. Starc tries another yorker but Bairstow is wise to it, before a short ball goes whizzing past his nose. Maiden.

  5. Postpublished at 01:17 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2017

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    You can't accelerate the score quickly on this pitch and so two wickets and the bowling side is right back in the game.

    It always happens in low-scoring games. Batsman trying to dominate - crash, bang, wallop - it isn't going to happen on this pitch.

    Moeen AliImage source, PA
  6. Eng 249-6published at 104 overs

    Lyon 32-11-56-1

    It's taken Australia way too long to wake up this morning, but they're on it now. Lyon has a big shout for new man Chris Woakes almost straight away, but the ball is heading down leg. Woakes then offers up a brief chance, chipping the ball back towards Lyon, but the spinner can't get his hands to it, despite the desperate dive.

  7. Postpublished at 01:15 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2017

    Dan Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    With the new regulations, England will retain their two referrals.

    From a position of relative safety, we've added two wickets to the score.

  8. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 103.3 overs

    Moeen lbw Lyon 38 (Eng 249-6)

    Umpire's call! Moeen goes! Two wickets fall in seven balls!

    Moeen was pushing forward, trying to smother the spin, but Lyon got the ball to nip through his defences. That's well-deserved reward for Lyon, who has bowled really well throughout this Test.

    Nathan LyonImage source, Getty Images
  9. Postpublished at 01:13 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2017

    I think that's out. There's no bat...

  10. Umpire reviewpublished at 103.2 overs

    Eng 249-5

    Oh! Moeen's gone! LBW to Lyon! He makes the T-sign...

  11. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 01:11 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2017

    #bbccricket

    Chris Watkins: I am so, so sorry all. Genuinely first ball since I turned TMS on for the first time this Ashes and there’s a wicket within 10 seconds of my flicking it on.

  12. Eng 247-5published at 103 overs

    Starrc 25-4-65-2

    Mitch Starc, a renewed spring in his step, bangs in a bouncer and Moeen ends up ducking it. He rolls his wrists on a pull shot to work a single and bring Bairstow on flight. Smith instantly starts tinkering with his field. This will be short, I suspect. And it is! The England keeper ducks it easily, and that's the end of the over.

    StarcImage source, #bbccricket
  13. Postpublished at 01:08 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2017

    The ground puncher thing (technical, I know) has been brought out to plod at Mitch Starc's footholes. That was a good innings from Malan, although it was the wrong shot to play. That ball was rising higher than the last few from Starc had.

    Jonny Bairstow is the next man in.

  14. Postpublished at 01:06 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2017

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    It's a very nice innings, he's left the ball well and played some nice drives.

    But he's been suckered out. It got above chest height so he was into the shot early and he spooned it up in the air. An easy catch.

    Shaun MarshImage source, Reuters
  15. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 102.2 overs

    Malan 56 c Marsh b Starc 56 (Eng 246-5)

    Gone! Finally, a Starc short ball works!

    Dawid Malan went for the big pull but could only send a top edge flying down to the deep, where Shaun Marsh judged it well to take the catch. It's taken Starc an hour and a half but, finally, the plan has worked.

    Mitchell StarcImage source, PA
  16. Postpublished at 01:03 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2017

    This is the high-quality punnage that you come to Test Match Special for.

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  17. Eng 245-4published at 102 overs

    Dearie me, Nathan Lyon's getting some turn. Moeen goes to sweep and the ball hits the toe end of the bat and bounces to an empty cover. Ooh, and that's another half-chance from Moeen as he drives a delivery through Cameron Bancroft's legs. Another good over from the Australian spinner.

  18. Postpublished at 01:00 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2017

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    You can have as many fielders as you like on the leg side but you're not stopping a shot like that from Malan.

    That's raced to the fence faster than any other boundary in this Test so far. What a shot.

  19. Eng 242-4published at 101 overs

    Starc 24-4-63-1

    Two good pull shots from Malan and Moeen only reap a single. Moeen's attempt, one leg up the air, ball thudding into teh middle of the bat, look set for a boundary before Josh Hazlewood dived onto the ball. Moeen hustles Mitch Starc's next delivery over short leg for a leisurely single, before Starc bangs a short ball way down leg side. Australia are looking a touch miffed about proceedings so far, and they're even more miffed as Malan rolls his wrists on a fine pull for four. Right off the meat of the bat.

  20. Postpublished at 00:59 Greenwich Mean Time 24 November 2017

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at the Gabba

    QueenImage source, Getty Images

    The Queen, or a Barmy Army member dressed as Her Majesty, has just arrived. Billy the trumpeter belts out the national anthem. The whole stadium applauds, even the Aussies. The Barmies remind the Aussies that she is their Queen too.