Summary

  • Handscomb 36*, Marsh 20*; stand: 48

  • Debutant Overton bowls Smith

  • Khawaja 53, Warner 47, Smith 40

  • England won toss; Aus 1-0 up in series

  • Nine overs lost to three rain delays

  • Day two to start early at 03:00 GMT

  1. Postpublished at 11:58 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    It seems to me that there is a potential for a match-winning - or match losing - hour in that final session. If some of the bowlers get their tails up and come roaring in, there's the potential for a real calamitous session for a batting team.

  2. Postpublished at 11:56 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Craig Overton has just told BT Sport that Steve Smith told him he was bowling too slow during his innings...

  3. Postpublished at 11:54 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Australia have their noses in front. England didn't bowl well early on but they didn't have the rub of the green. The rain came down and England probably got a bit of a rollicking. They came out with more aggression and fight.

  4. 'We got under Smith's skin'published at 11:53 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

    Craig Overton, speaking to Test Match Special: "It was good fun. We would have liked a few more wickets but as a unit we thought we bowled really well and didn't get the luck we thought we deserved.

    "We had a chat before the start of play and Root thought we should bowl, and all the bowlers were behind him. I felt I was a little bit off at first but to get that wicket at the end of the day was really good.

    "Smith is a good player so it was nice to get him out. It looked like we got under his skin a little bit, which might have added to our advantage, but I don't know what was said - I was out on the boundary."

  5. Postpublished at 11:52 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    The great Steve Waugh used to try and take you out of the here and now by having conversations with you, and reminding you of a dismissal from the week before. It takes them out of the concentration bubble and that's what England tried to do with Steve Smith, and it worked.

  6. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 11:51 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    #bbccricket

    Niall McCabe: Probably a decent decision by Root to send the Aussies in to bat first, just slightly let down by the bowlers, huge wicket of Steve Smith, though.

  7. Postpublished at 11:50 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    England will justify Craig Overton's selection with the wicket that he's got. Overton has a future at Test match level, no doubt about that, but you feel for someone like Jake Ball.

    You come to Adelaide, in the kind of conditions Ball has bowled well in at Trent Bridge, and he's replaced by a bowler who looks quite similar to him. If he was replaced by Mark Wood, a different style of bowler to him, then I can understand it, but I feel that England have gone for him to try and get a few more runs down the order.

  8. Aus 209-4published at 11:49 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    England were a little timid in that opening spell but definitely livened up after the rain, particularly when Steve Smith came to the crease. Stuart Broad in particular chirped away at Smith and seemed to unsettle the Australian captain who was eventually bowled by Craig Overton for 40.

  9. Postpublished at 11:46 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    When Smith came out, it was like a different team. England don't have ferocious, fast bowlers but Anderson and Broad are hostile characters and I thought England would come out like bulls out of the gate.

  10. Postpublished at 11:45 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    "Australia a long way ahead," says Michael Vaughan. Not what England fans want to hear. The performance of England's bowlers in that opening spell, when David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were able to comfortably reach 33-0 in 13.5 overs before the rain came, is not going down well.

  11. Postpublished at 11:43 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I have Australia a long way ahead. When you win the toss and bowl, you want more than four. England didn't start well enough. It shows you that the first hour sets the tone, and they set the tone so badly in terms of the areas that they bowled.

  12. Postpublished at 11:42 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia pace bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Under lights, the ball does a lot more. There wasn't a huge amount of swing this morning but they did bowl the wrong lengths. If it didn't rain, England would have another nine overs now. It would be pretty tough work to negotiate their bowlers.

  13. Aus 208-4published at 11:41 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Handscomb 36, Marsh 20

    That has been another fascinating day of cricket but one again that England just haven't done enough to take control. They were poor in the first session and were unfortunate later on as the pink ball beat the bat late in the Adelaide darkness.

    Australia's day.

  14. Postpublished at 11:38 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia pace bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It's definitely Australia's day. When Root won the toss and put Australia in to bat, the last thing he would have been hoping for is that they were four wickets to go. There's a long way to go but Australia's tail does bat deep. They'll be looking to bat as long as they can tomorrow to give England a nasty session under the lights.

  15. Postpublished at 11:37 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    I've got the Aussies with their noses in front. Root's decision is quite hard to evaluate because he's been let down by the bowlers.

  16. Stumps - Aus 208-4published at 81 overs

    Handscomb 36, Marsh 20

    Peter Handscomb survives the final ball from Anderson. Australia will surely be the happier side having reached the close just four down after being inserted.

  17. Postpublished at 11:35 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2017

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    It's swinging now. Is that the new ball, or has it been swinging all day and England have failed to capitalise on it? I would not be fancying Pat Cummins and Mitch Starc bowling in these conditions.

  18. Aus 208-4published at 80.4 overs

    Another inswinger but Marsh gets bat on it. He pushes the ball into the leg side and gets to the non-striker's end. He'll be happy to stay there.

    Two balls left...

  19. Aus 207-4published at 80.2 overs

    Swing! Big swing. One moving in, one moving away from Anderson. Both are too wide of Marsh's off stump though.

  20. new ball

    Aus 207-4published at 80 overs

    England are taking the bright pink new ball. Jimmy Anderson will bowl the final over.