Andy Linfield: Root set another great example to his teammates yesterday and should not bat today. Imagine the consequences if he became dizzy whilst facing a quick!?

Runs for Moeen, as he gets forward and works Nathan Lyon away through mid-wicket. He then ends up having to throw himself to the ground to stop himself getting clonked by Mitch Starc's return throw. Starc throws his hand up in apology while Moeen and Tim Paine have a chuckle.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

When I started the older generation would bat outside off stump to the spinner and just sweep or move their feet to play other shots. The modern batsman seems to also go back and in front of all three stumps.

Tidy from Moeen, meeting Josh Hazlewood's first delivery with a straight bat and steering it past short leg for a single.

That's the first boundary of the day! Hazlewood offers up some width and Jonny Bairstow frees his arms, punching a drive away through the covers, and Nathan Lyon ends up sliding into the boundary rope a second after the ball gets there.

Phil

See? There's templates there for England to follow. Looking at the scorecard from that West Indies game, they started the final day on 48-4. An unbeaten century from Roston Chase and 64 from Jason Holder allowed West Indies to see the day out.

Hmm. Jonny Bairstow shuffles back into his crease to play a delivery from Nathan Lyon that turns into him, and he has to stab his bat down on the ball at the last second.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

England are the sixth team in Test history to be four down in the third innings and still over 200 runs behind going into the final day.

Four of those previous teams lost, but West Indies managed to draw against India in 2016.

Josh Hazlewood goes short to Moeen, who ducks the first one before the next delivery absolutely flies through to Tim Paine. Moeen drops his hands and sways himself out of harm's way. The final delivery is lovely, rising sharply on Moeen, and it rises over the top of the bat.

A quick glance up into the England dressing room shows that Joe Root has his whites on.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

Moeen Ali is not going to last long playing like this against Nathan Lyon. His foot goes to the same place every ball. If he misses it, he'll be lbw. If he hits it, he's likely to nick off.

Oh! That's a ripper from Nathan Lyon, putting a bit of extra zip on the ball, and it spins past Moeen's outside edge and in to Tim Paine's gloves.

Moeen's off the mark, though, and he picks up the first run of the day as he hustles Lyon off his hip for one. Jonny Bairstow, with four men around the bat, takes his time, before he and Moeen exchange a few singles.

Here he is...

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Image source, Getty Images

The ball has gone out of shape, which means a man with a briefcase of cricket balls comes darting on to the pitch and Steve Smith and the umpires sort out a new one.

The first short ball of the morning comes Jonny Bairstow's away but Josh Hazlewood pushes the ball across him, and Bairstow tucks himself underneath it.

There's a bit of shape back in to Bairstow but he jabs his bat down on it in time. Another maiden.

Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special commentator

Runs might not be completely unimportant today. We might get a situation like Cardiff 2009 where Monty Panesar and James Anderson got England a lead, which took further time so Australia could not bat again.

Moeen gets forward to Nathan Lyon, bat and pad close together, and he smothers the spin. There's plenty of tempting brown patches on the pitch for Lyon to play with but he can't quite hit them first up.

He's maybe a shade too full, and Moeen pats away a maiden.

Nathan Lyon has dismissed Moeen Ali six times out of eight on this tour.

So, naturally, here he is to bowl at him.

Joe Root has still got the hospital tag on his wrist as he makes his way up to the England dressing room.

Out in the middle, Jonny Bairstow plays out a very tidy maiden from Josh Hazlewood. One over down, just another 89 to go...

Jonny Bairstow blocks his first ball back down to Josh Hazlewood.

And, as Bairstow sees off the first ball, Joe Root arrives at the ground!

Anyway. There's cricket about to happen!

It'll be Josh Hazlewood first up as Jonny Bairstow and Moeen Ali make their way to the middle.

I'm not demeaning anything James Anderson did, but once England left the field yesterday, Anderson didn't come back out.

Joe Root was batting 50 minutes after Australia declared. He had 50 minutes off the field, not including the lunch and then tea break. That's a ridiculous amount of time to spend in the field.