Summary

  • Australia lose top four in final session

  • Two wkts each for Anderson & Woakes

  • Australia led by 215 on first innings

  • England 227: Lyon 4-60, Starc 3-49

  • Overton 41*, Cook 37, Woakes 36

  • Australia lead 1-0 in five-match series

  • Play starts at 03:01 GMT on Tuesday

  1. How's stat?!published at 07:53 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2017

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    I make that the first time since 1892 that Australia have taken three caught-and-bowled in an Ashes Test in one innings.

  2. Dinner - Eng 219-8published at 72 overs

    Trail by 223

    And survive Stuart Broad does! Starc comes round the wicket but doesn't quite get it right. The fourth ball flicks off the thigh pad and out of Tim Paine's reach for four leg byes before Broad sees out the final two balls of the session.

    With Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali dismissed at the start of the session, England will take that.

  3. Eng 214-8published at 71.3 overs

    Overton 36, Broad 0

    Well done Craig Overton. Australia don't to get you out any more. They give him a single off the third ball of the over, although that is perhaps more a reflection of Stuart Broad's batting.

    Broad will have three balls from Mitchell Starc to survive...

  4. Postpublished at 07:47 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2017

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    Craig Overton can be proud of his first Test match. He bowled and did his best and got stuck in there, and now he's doing the same with the bat.

    OvertonImage source, Getty Images
  5. Eng 213-8published at 71 overs

    Trail by 229 runs

    A polite nod of the head from Craig Overton as Josh Hazlewood marks his return to the attack with another bouncer that whistles through at head height. Overton isn't put off. A few balls later he slashes over gully for four more.

    And that's very good! The big all-rounder steals a single off the final ball to protect Stuart Broad in what may be the last over before the dinner interval.

  6. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 07:43 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2017

    #bbccricket

    Andrew Needham: Shambolic, chaotic, disorganised, muddled, confused, in (total) disarray, at sixes and sevens, hit-or-miss, scrappy, all over the place, all over the shop. I can't find a word or phrase strong enough to describe this performance!

  7. Postpublished at 07:43 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2017

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    You can't blame Woakes. He's done well. But they have a little more pace and with Starc being left arm, you can go round, as well as over, the wicket and cramp him for room.

    Chris WoakesImage source, Getty Images
  8. Eng 208-8published at 70 overs

    Trail by 234

    Stuart Broad is booed to the crease. He's well protected. Arm guard, chest guard and two jumpers. He knows what's coming. Broad gives Craig Overton a big pat on the shoulder on his arrival and then does indeed have to see out a couple of bouncers.

    On come the lights...

  9. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 69.4 overs

    Woakes c&b Starc 36 (Eng 208-8)

    Ahhhhh. Normality resumed.

    An excellent knock from Chris Woakes comes to an end with a bit of a sloppy shot. He tries to pull a back-of-a-length delivery from Mitchell Starc and it hits high up on the bat and spoons up in the air. Starc orders everyone out of his way and takes the third caught-and-bowled dismissal of the innings.

    Woakes deserves nothing but praise for that knock.

    StarcImage source, Getty Images
  10. Postpublished at 07:36 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2017

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    Even if they bowl England out, I don't think they will enforce the follow-on. There's so much time left in the match. Australia can wallop another couple of hundred runs in no time.

  11. What have you missed?published at 07:36 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2017

    Plenty. And almost all of it is bad news, from an England perspective.

    The tourists, 29-1 overnight, have lost six wickets amid a flurry of rash strokes in just under two sessions.

    James Vince and Joe Root perished on the drive, Alastair Cook edged Nathan Lyon to slip and Dawid Malan's technique let him down as he gloved Pat Cummins behind.

    Lyon's sensational diving catch to remove Moeen Ali off his own bowling remains the moment of the day, although Mitchell Starc rivalled him with a fine reaction effort in his follow-through to account for Jonny Bairstow.

    From the depths of 142-7, Chris Woakes and Craig Overton have shared England's first fifty stand since the first innings at Brisbane - and the follow-on target of 236 at least looks achievable.

    ScoreboardImage source, PA
  12. Eng 206-7published at 69 overs

    Woakes 35, Overton 30

    Both Chris Woakes and Craig Overton are into the thirties now. Alastair Cook is the top scorer in this England innings with 37. These two are showing the top order that is not impossible to bat out there. Overton calmly pats six balls back down to Lyon.

  13. Postpublished at 07:34 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2017

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    It feels like too little, too late for England, but at least there's good resistance. The new ball is lurking, though...

  14. Eng 206-7published at 68 overs

    Trail by 236

    Jonny Bairstow was out over an hour ago. I am certain Australia will have expected this innings to be over by now.

    I hope Craig Overton isn't a superstitious man. He's batted excellently for England but has broken his bat. One of England's sub fielders runs out with another.

    Overthrows! The Australian wheels are coming off (I wish)! Overton pushes for two behind point and the throw in the deep is wild and allows him to add a third and keep the strike.

  15. Postpublished at 07:28 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2017

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport in Adelaide

    SweetsImage source, BBC Sport

    These sweet machines are dotted around the press box. You have to pay for them, so Tuffers thought he could pull a fast one with a euro. He lost the euro. The key in the top was also an attempt at some jostling.

  16. Eng 202-7published at 67 overs

    Woakes 34, Overton 27

    Yes Craig! I'm warming to England's debutant big time with this innings. Nathan Lyon, a bowler who I said looked like Murali earlier, has just been whacked over the leg side for four! Really good batting. Seven runs come from the over. These two are making Australia think. The partnership is now worth 60.

  17. Postpublished at 07:25 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2017

  18. Postpublished at 07:25 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2017

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    I feel quite saddened. I feel England have played some poor shots. They haven't assessed the situation. We've fielded five sessions against Australia and not looked at how they grafted and how they batted.

  19. Eng 195-7published at 66 overs

    Trail by 247

    Fair play to Chris Woakes. He has struggled with the ball and got a pasting for his first-innings dismissal in the first Test, but this is gutsy stuff.

    That's a beauty from Starc, this time to Overton. Back over the wicket he gets one to move away a tad and luckily for England it goes wide of the outside edge. And again! Twice more in the over Starc beats Overton's edge. He can't believe it. It may not affect the result but this is a slight momentum change for England. The tail are proving they can fight it out.

  20. Postpublished at 07:21 Greenwich Mean Time 4 December 2017

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport in Adelaide

    Overton and Woakes are showing the top order what could have been achieved. Vince, Root, Moeen and Bairstow all contributed to their own downfalls.

    Chris WoakesImage source, Getty Images