Summary

  • Australia win Ashes

  • Hosts take 3-0 lead in five-Test series

  • Victory sealed before tea on final day

  • Malan 54; Hazlewood 5-48

  • 'Damp patches' delay start by 3 hrs

  • Rain leaks through covers overnight

Live Reporting

Tom Rostance, Amy Lofthouse and Mandeep Sanghera

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    Jonny Boy‏: Here at the WACA, well the purist in me wants some cricket. The optimist believes the come back is on. The pessimist thinks day 5 at the WACA won't be a long one!

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    The Western Australia met office website has reported an unprecedented spike in online traffic from Blighty, and an unusually high level of 'likes'....

    Lazarmstrong, on call in a Scottish hospital.

  3. David Steele lives in Keele...

    Michael FishBBC Sport

    Steph is now basically a qualified BBC weatherman...

  4. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport in Perth

    Rain stopped, sun out, covers back off.

  5. From the press box

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    I once did an overnight live text on a power cut for over an hour...

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    Amazed Boycott not saying they should get out there and play. He is always banging on about uncovered wickets!

    Richard Ellis, Norwich

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    BBC Sport in Perth

    Covers coming back on.

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    No wickets lost, over an hour into the scheduled start of play. England would take that Thomas...

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    Thomas Payne: One of England’s best sessions of the entire tour

  11. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport in Perth

    Sun is out again, blowers being blown on the pitch. It's one of the strangest sights I've ever seen at a Test. Clouds are gathering away to the left of the press box, the direction where the weather is coming from.

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    Tom Byrne: BREAKING: Unnamed England Lions player promoted to senior Ashes tour after pouring several beers over the Waca pitch last night. More to come.

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    I'm not sure what this says about our beloved audience, or the game of Test cricket, but there are comfortably more people reading us at the moment than at this time of day in previous days.

    Man with a hairdryer = more gripping than Steve Smith batting...

  14. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    I think it's still fair to assume two players are going to have to play well for England to leave here with the Ashes still retained for a week.

  15. 'Let's get on and play some cricket'

    Australia coach Darren Lehmann on BT Sport: "It's not ideal. Let's get on and play some cricket. Umpires will make the call - when it's deemed fit we'll get on and play some cricket.

    "It's a great wicket; it's been an entertaining Test match. Let's get on and have a great day five."

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    That was the scene in Chennai a year ago. Brilliant.

    Nothing would be more pleasing to fans of cultural stereotypes than Australians drying out the pitch with some barbeques...

  18. The covers are off again, here come the leaf blowers again...

  19. Simon Hughes
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    England are saying that the pitch has changed from what it was before, and that's not fair. In the end that will be the umpires' decision. They will have to make a decision on whether or not it is fair.

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    Bob: To save the embarrassment of the head groundsman Joe Root should make a sporting gesture and offer Steve Smith a draw