Stuart Broad, who has been a touch underwhelming with the ball so far, is going to continue.

Ugh, and a juicy, wide delivery comes Steve Smith's way, and it gets clattered gratefully to the boundary. What a shot that is! Smith takes a couple of paces down the wicket, watches the ball tumble past Moeen, and sees the ball fly into the rope. Broad readjusts and goes short, and Smith works a single.

In fact, Broad's going to try a bit of short theory, and Mitch Marsh has a hefty swing and a miss. Broad glares, whistles down a bouncer, and Marsh ducks it.

William Tomaney: Right, sitting on a plane about to take off from Warsaw to Birmingham. Will Steve Smith still be in when I land?

Simon Hughes
BBC Test Match Special commentator

Smith has got fantastic reflexes. He has got great reactions honed from the bowling machine. He's completely insatiable and doesn't want to give the opposition a sniff. He's utterly ruthless in the way he compiles huge scores and takes the game away from the opposition.

Off strike straight away with a single. That's one of the most impressive things about Steve Smith's innings so far - he's constantly looked to score. He's just not allowed England to settle. In fact, a stat's just flashed up showing that Smith has played and missed twice in this innings. Twice! He's been out there for five hours.

Mitch Marsh then taps away a very tidy over from Woakes. He's on 39, while Smith is on 140.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

England have to come out and be desperate to win the next 30 minutes.

Chris Woakes is going to resume after lunch. A slip, gully and an air of resignation await him as he bowls to Steve Smith.

England were 368-4. That was a thing. That did happen. Then they collapsed. It's only charitable for Australia to do the same.

The players have made their way back out. Australia trail by just 89 runs.

Warren Craig, Steve Smith's manager, on TMS: "At the age of 28, we like to think he’s a good 10 years from retirement. He’s always looking at ways to improve himself. He never thinks that he’s peaked. He’s always practising."

I'm off to try and flog some stuff to Steve Smith and Warren Craig.

Here to bring us the wicket of Steve Smith is Amy Lofthouse...

Warren Craig, Steve Smith's manager, on TMS: "Even the endorsements we do here are all very specific and reflect what he wants to project as a person and what his character is.

"We’re very mindful of the demands that are on his time. We don’t partner with a huge amount of sponsors but we partner with some quality ones.

"With Steve it’s very much about the cricket. He just loves batting. He loves scoring runs. Everything else is secondary."

Ex-Australia captain Mark Taylor, speaking to TMS about the Bradman comparisons: "Smith is like a golfer who has an unusual style. I wouldn't say he was a Jim Furyk yet, but it's that sort of comparison. If you have the bat in the right position to hit the ball, then it doesn't matter how it gets there.

"Bradman was maybe more orthodox than Smith but they have a similar bottom hand. Smith is a great example that you don't have to follow any textbook to be a great player."

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Still genuinely annoyed at the last over Steve Harmison bowled at Old Trafford 12 years ago.

Warren Craig, Steve Smith's manager, on TMS: "They jokingly say in Australia that the captain of the Australia cricket team is the second most important job in the country behind the prime minister. Certainly his profile here is extremely high.

"He’s extremely well respected and loved as a great role model. A lot of mums I speak to say what a great role model he is to kids, which is exactly what he wants to be."

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Ricky Ponting has just gloved one down the leg side! In 2005.

I'm going to commentate on this as it's brilliant.

Ex-Australia captain Mark Taylor, speaking to TMS: "Smith is ready to play as soon as the bowler bowls that ball. He's in a position to play any shot. He feels comfortable. It may look unorthodox to us but he's very comfortable. At the moment his bat looks 6ft wide.

"Smith has got an insatiable appetite for runs. You can see when he bats, he gets in that little bubble. He's almost oblivious to everything that's going on around him, except the ball that is coming out of the bowler's hand."

Simon Hughes
BBC Test Match Special commentator

Smith and Bradman hit the ball into the gaps. It doesn't matter what you look like, it's how you score the runs. And Smith is incredibly efficient at that.

Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

Reading about Bradman and watching Smith play a bit with his pick up, I've always believed that if somebody plays with something that is idiosyncratic and works for them, then don't change it. Don't coach it out of them. Just let them play. You have to admire Smith.

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Warren Craig, Steve Smith's manager, on TMS: "Right from the start you could certainly see the dedication that he had.

"You can never project that they’re going to go on to be Australia captain or go and do what he has done. What he’s doing at the moment is something quite amazing.

"You hear often from athletes that they learn more from being dropped. That was the turning point, when he got dropped after his first stint with the team.

"Because he’s such a deep thinker and lover of the game, he went away and worked out what he needed to do be successful at this level. Some of the strange things that people talk about, they are things he went away and worked out that that worked for him.

"Since then he has been on an upward trajectory."

On BT Sport they are showing a re-run of Old Trafford, 2005.

That's how bleak it is at the moment. TAKE THE PAIN AWAY.