Summary

  • Root 42*, Bairstow 17*

  • Two wickets for Lyon

  • Aus 649-7 dec - lead of 303

  • S Marsh 156, M Marsh 101

  • Moeen 2-170, Crane 1-193

  • Australia lead five-Test series 3-0

  • Day five starts at 23:30 GMT

  1. Postpublished at 01:18 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

    Moeen's coming back on for a twirl. There's about 10 minutes or so until lunch.

  2. Postpublished at 01:17 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

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  3. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 01:17 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

    Text 81111

    Back in the day my brother and I batted hundreds of times together but never both got centuries. Probably because we spent most of the time trying to run each-other out. Often successfully.

    Jeremy, Hobart

  4. Aus 571-5published at 180 overs

    Lead by 225

    Good stuff, this, from Tom Curran. He gets another delivery to nip back in to Tim Paine and Paine's lucky that the bottom edge trickles onto his foot, rather than on to his stumps. Paine rolls his wrists on a single, before Shaun Marsh hoicks a wide delivery away to the boundary.

    Meanwhile, the temperature ticks over to 41.2 degrees. And that's in the shade.

  5. Postpublished at 01:12 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

    Cameron Bancroft is the only one of Australia's top six not to have scored a century in this series.

    Excellent at press conferences, though.

  6. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 01:12 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

    Text 81111

    Safe to say Bancroft is going to be on teas.

    Ben from Abergavenny.

  7. Aus 566-5published at 179 overs

    Crane 46-3-177-1

    Mason Crane gets away with a few there as a juicy full toss is clubbed towards a fielder by Tim Paine. That's lovely from Shaun Marsh, a shuffle on the feet and a drive that just races away to the boundary rope.

  8. How's stat?!published at 01:07 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Mason Crane has now conceded the most runs by an England bowler on Test debut.

    He beats Devon Malcolm's record of 1-166 against Australia at Trent Bridge in 1989.

    Devon MalcolmImage source, Getty Images
  9. Aus 560-5published at 178 overs

    S Marsh 132, Paine 9

    Tom Curran tries a short ball that's trailing down leg, and it bounces before it goes through to Jonny Bairstow at about ankle height. There's some tasty looking cracks on this pitch that I imagine the Australia bowlers will be licking their lips at.

    A back of the hand slower ball ends the over from Curran.

  10. Postpublished at 01:02 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport in Sydney

    Lots of empty seats in the bottom tiers, those directly in the fierce heat. The people sitting on the front row have my sympathy and concern.

    SCGImage source, BBC Sport
  11. Postpublished at 01:01 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

    Ed Smith
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    Mark Stoneman has shrugged that off very well. That's a stinger.

  12. ouch!

    Aus 558-5published at 177 overs

    Lead by 212

    Mark Stoneman hasn't half taken some tap at short leg. This time it's Shaun Marsh who swings a full-blooded shot straight into his hip. Stoneman doesn't so much as flinch but that must have hurt. The crowd wince as one. Jonny Bairstow wanders over to check on him, and Stoneman waves him away.

  13. How's stat?!published at 00:57 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Shaun and Mitchell Marsh's partnership of 169 is the ninth-highest partnership between brothers in Test cricket.

    The highest is 269 by Zimbabwe's Andy and Grant Flower.

    Shaun and Mitchell MarshImage source, Getty Images
  14. Aus 552-5published at 176 overs

    Ooh, Tom Curran beats Tim Paine with a peach. That's very similar to that delivery that did for Mitch Marsh, it just didn't keep quite so low. I'm not quite sure the England batsmen will be too thrilled to see these deliveries moving off the seam.

    That's a tidy over from Curran, forcing Paine to play, and it'll be a maiden to boot.

  15. Postpublished at 00:52 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

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

    There has been more fight from England in this tour than 2013-14. But they've lost the big moments and then not been able to get back once they've got behind.

  16. Aus 552-5published at 175 overs

    That's such a good shot from Tim Paine. He reaches to Mason Crane's second ball and frees his wrists, swinging a drive away across the outfield, and not even Tom Curran's desperate dive can cut it off.

    There's another shimmy of the feet and whirl of the wrists from Shaun Marsh later in the over, but it only brings him a couple.

  17. Postpublished at 00:47 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

    A change down at the other end - Mason Crane will replace Moeen.

  18. How's stat?!published at 00:46 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018

    Andy Zaltzman
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    That was England's ninth wicket in their last 297.4 overs.

    This is the fifth innings in Tests in which numbers three to six have all scored 75 or more.

  19. Aus 545-5published at 174 overs

    Lead by 199

    Tim Paine gets off the mark with a little nurdle off his hip, before Shaun Marsh sees out the over.

  20. Postpublished at 00:44 Greenwich Mean Time 7 January 2018