Summary

  • Australia won by 120 runs

  • Australia lead 2-0 in five-Test series

  • England lose six wickets in session

  • Starc 5-88, Lyon 2-45

  • Root fails to add to overnight 67

  1. Postpublished at 04:44 Greenwich Mean Time 6 December 2017

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I'm in the dog house at home. I tried kangaroo, and my seven-year old daughter is refusing to talk to me. I've had to send a message via her siblings that I will let her have a kangaroo as a pet if she talks to me again.

  2. Eng 203-7published at 78 overs

    A lovely push back down the ground from Jonny Bairstow brings one before Craig Overton, spinning around with a lot of ease for someone who is 6'5, gets back to make it two. That's very good running. Bairstow plays a slightly looser drive to Pat Cummins and they take a single off the edge, before Overton chases a ball that drops just short of Usman Khawaja at gully! That was close. Meanwhile, Josh Hazlewood is limbering up.

  3. Postpublished at 04:40 Greenwich Mean Time 6 December 2017

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

    The England team is staying in the same hotel as us. I was chatting to them last night, and they said that Hazlewood was the quickest of the Australian fast bowlers. I would have thought the other two would be quicker.

  4. Eng 200-7published at 77 overs

    Trail by 154

    England's 200 is brought up with a Jonny Bairstow flick off the pads, before Craig Overton prods and pokes his way through the rest of the over. Overton takes a brief interval to rub at his chest with a little grimace on his face. Ouch.

  5. Postpublished at 04:38 Greenwich Mean Time 6 December 2017

    Dan Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    Bancroft is stood a good couple of metres in front of the other slips. It's an interesting cordon.

  6. Eng 199-7published at 76 overs

    Pat Cummins whistles down a bouncer in response to that drop, and Craig Overton ducks it well this time, before another fine delivery beats Overton's prod forward.

  7. Postpublished at 04:36 Greenwich Mean Time 6 December 2017

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

    That carried comfortably to Bancroft.

  8. dropped catch

    Overton dropped on 5published at 75.4 overs

    That's a drop! Cameron Bancroft has shelled a chance off Craig Overton! Oh, and it's an easy one as well.

    A simple outside edge from Craig Overton, it goes quickly but at decent height to Bancroft, and he gets both hands to it, and drops it. He's a very close slip but still. You should be hanging on to those.

  9. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 04:34 Greenwich Mean Time 6 December 2017

    Text 81111

    While we depend on long spells from Anderson to carry us and make a breakthrough, this Aussie attack is relentless and has four genuine wicket taking options and that, I feel, is the difference.

    Dan

  10. Eng 198-7published at 75 overs

    Nathan Lyon is going to continue, and Jonny Bairstow flicks the first ball off his pads for a single. Craig Overton goes back on his stumps and defends, before ignoring the teaser Lyon floats up and blocks it away. A tidy over to get things ticking over again.

  11. Postpublished at 04:31 Greenwich Mean Time 6 December 2017

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    The chest guard has not done its job.

  12. drinks break

    Drinks breakpublished at 04:29 Greenwich Mean Time 6 December 2017

    Drinks are being taken while Craig Overton receives some treatment. That looked nasty for Craig Overton. He just lost where the ball was. He got down low and the ball was angled in enough to strike him as he turned his head away. He'll have an almighty bruise sprouting over the next few days. Overton did indicate to Lyon that it had hit him in the heart.

  13. How's stat?!published at 04:28 Greenwich Mean Time 6 December 2017

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    In the last five years, England have won 18 Test matches and lost eight when they have batted first. They have won seven and lost 16 when batting second.

  14. ouch!

    Eng 197-7published at 74 overs

    The first bouncer of the morning come from Pat Cummins as he slants one across Craig Overton, who does well to get down low and avoid taking a blow. He then drives loosely outside off stump, the ball takes the outside edge - and beats Steve Smith to run away for four!

    Cummins digs in a bouncer in response and wow, that will hurt. Overton loses sight of it, gets in an awful position and gets hit right on the side of the ribs. Out comes the physio.

    Craig OvertonImage source, PA
    Craig Overton hitImage source, Getty Images
  15. Postpublished at 04:23 Greenwich Mean Time 6 December 2017

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Australia will win this game. I want to see England, in Perth, come out with the same intensity and desperation as they bowled with under the lights on day three.

    England seem to need the game situation to be against them, and then they play more aggressively and their body language is more positive.

  16. Eng 193-7published at 73 overs

    Trail by 161

    Eight overs to go until the new ball, if you were wondering. Nathan Lyon, three men around the bat, comes in and Bairstow hustles him away for one. Lyon instantly gets in his ear, much in the way a irritating mosquito buzzes around you. Craig Overton takes a slide back into his crease and works off his pads to pick up his first run, before Bairtsow hops to the side and slaps two through mid-wicket.

  17. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 04:19 Greenwich Mean Time 6 December 2017

    #bbccricket

    Thomas Knights: England choked under pressure. From 169-3 to this is infuriating. Moeen on current form is not worth a place in the team. Bowling awfully and not scoring runs.

    Gingerbread: When will we actually drop Moeen?? He's not a front line batsman. And his bowling is not up to it.. In fact he's been so poor with the ball this series.

    James Brown: I love Moeen, but for all the talk of how calm he is, he makes some terrible decisions under pressure.

    Moeen AliImage source, PA
  18. Eng 189-7published at 72 overs

    Craig Overton, who top-scored in the first innings, is the next man in. Darren Lehmann has come out for a chat with Nathan Lyon. Pat Cummins continues and Bairstow clips a delivery off his pads to bring Overton on strike. Overton is still wearing his grass-stained jumper from the first innings. He blocks the rest of the over.

  19. Postpublished at 04:16 Greenwich Mean Time 6 December 2017

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    That was an average shot from Moeen Ali. He's got to try to score, but that was not the best option. Coming down the wicket would have been better than playing across the line on this surface.

    Moeen AliImage source, Getty Images
  20. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 71 overs

    Moeen lbw Lyon 2 (Eng 188-7)

    Umpire's call! Moeen has to go.

    You could sense that was coming. Nathan Lyon had spun a beauty past the outside edge earlier on, and Moeen, wanting to be positive, went for the shot that's worked so well for him in the past. Lyon knew it, too. He went a bit fuller, Moeen missed, and that's the third wicket to fall this morning.

    Nathan LyonImage source, Getty Images