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Dawid Malan stays deep in his crease for a bit before taking a step forward and working Nathan Lyon away nicely for a leisurely single. Lyon goes full to Moeen, who bunts it away, before he sweeps for four! That hovered in the air but Moeen timed the pants off it. Back leg bent, lofting the ball over short leg's head and into the ropes. And again! A similar length to the previous delivery, and Moeen gives it a hefty tonk to send it through mid-wicket. That's England's 100 up. Only another 340 to go.

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One thing I have noticed with Australia in the field is that it's always David Warner who goes and talks to the bowlers at the top of their mark. He's almost always at mid-on, too, while Steve Smith stays at slip and tinkers with his field. England have gone into their shells, but they're given a handy single by Mitch Starc, as he throws himself over the ball.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

That was a very difficult chance.

Moeen dropped on 4published at 35 overs

35 overs

Eng 91-4

Nathan Lyon is getting plenty of encouragement from the men around the bat, as Dawid Maan comes for a shimmy down the pitch and pops the ball away to mid-on. Moeen tries a similar tactic but Lyon sees him coming and goes fuller and quicker, and Moeen defends.

Oh! What's gone on there? Has Moeen got a tickle on that? He presses forward in defence, the ball looks to hit the top of the bat and it goes so quickly past Tim Paine. the ball spoons up past Tim Paine and slip, Moeen takes a single and just about makes it home as the ball gets launched at the stumps. That's technically a drop...

Full from Josh Hazlewood, and Dawid Malan digs it out in a rather nervous fashion. David Warner then comes wandering in and gives the ball to Aleem Dar, clearly a bit unhappy with things, but Aleem's not to be moved. Short from Hazlewood, who is touching 90mph, and Malan pulls, but he gets it between the two fielders on the boundary and they cut it off to keep it to a single. It's cagey stuff at the minute.

JJ: How to make an average Australian team look like world number one? Just play England in Australia.

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Nathan Lyon's trying to tempt Moeen into a big shot, I'd wager. He floats a few tempters up on off stump and Moeen lets them drift through, before he knocks a delivery down off his pads. Ah, down the wicket goes Moeen, looking for a boundary, but he drives the ball straight at the fielder. Maiden.

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BBC Sport in Adelaide

It's Monday, so understandably quieter at the Adelaide Oval. More empty seats, the grass bank not as packed, less quaffing going on at the back of the pavilion. It's warmer, too. Yesterday you needed three layers if you ventured outside. Today you risk a sunburnt neck.

Four leg-byes first up from Josh Hazlewood, as he goes for a yorker first up and it slides off Moeen's toes and away to the boundary. Another flick off the pads is a little airy from Moeen, and there's a yelp of interest from the close fielders, but the ball drops safely and Moeen saunters through for a single. Dawid Malan gets forward to Hazlewood, jabbing his bat down, before he gets squared up by a delivery that goes into the midriff.

Josh Hazlewood is going to replace Mitch Starc.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

It took me three days in 2013-14 to suggest that it might be a whitewash. I will probably get murdered for saying it but England have to do something to stop it being 5-0 again.

England's record at Perth isn't good at all and once the wheels start to come off in this country it is very difficult.

Moeen's looking to be busy against Nathan Lyon, but both times he drives the ball towards a fielder. He gets forward, head down, and holds his bat out of the way as Lyon gets a delivery to bounce over his stumps. A leisurely single brings Dawid Malan back on strike, and he drives safely to see out the over.

Gary Roberts: I can see Cook retiring mid tour.

Tom McDavid: So what will last longer, my night shift or England's first innings? Two and a half hours of my shift remaining. Close call.

Damian Robinson: Chin up, everyone. If England snaffle a draw out of this (all the more likely if it rains tomorrow), then it will feel like a massive win.

"Catch!" shouts Mitch Starc as Dawid Malan flicks a delivery off his hips right into the ground, and runs a single. Moeen is welcomed to the crease with some tempters outside his off stump, which he leaves well alone.

A glance at the dressing room shows Trevor Bayliss, chin steepled on his hands, looking on intently while Mark Ramprakash points animatedly at a laptop. Jonny Bairstow sits and chews on his fingernails. Moeen gets off the mark with a gentle push and run.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

That was Nathan Lyon's 50th Test wicket against England, at an average of 29.

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Moeen Ali is the next man in, which means Nathan Lyon still has two left-handers to bowl at. England need 163 runs to avoid the follow-on, in case you were wondering. Oh! Moeen chucks a cut at his first ball, a really wafty sort of delivery, and he somehow manages to avoid edging through to Tim Paine. Steve Smith can't believe it.

Definite turn for Lyon now, as he gets two to bounce pack Moeen's prods forward. A wicket maiden for Nathan Lyon.