Summary

  • England complete series win

  • Finch 62, Stoinis 56, Marsh 55

  • Smith 45 - controversially ct behind

  • Eng 302-6: Buttler 100*, Woakes 53*

  • England lead 3-0 in five-match series

Live Reporting

Jack Skelton and Jamie Lillywhite

  1. James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    Brilliant shot from Jos Buttler, showing all of his power and timing. To get the power off a slower ball is serious talent.

  2. 6 runs

    Eng 272-6

    Short from Cummins, Buttler latches on to it and it's another six over mid-wicket. He hit that hard and flat.

  3. James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    Jos Buttler's wrists are exquisite. How he manages to create the room and play the shot with that power is unbelievable.

  4. Eng 264-6

    Buttler 80, Woakes 37

    My word Stoinis has covered some ground on the boundary but even he cannot get there to prevent Buttler's slap into the leg side racing for four.

    Now how do we describe this next one? A near yorker swinging in to his toes by Starc and Buttler his somehow got his wrists in overdrive to flick it over mid-off for four. Remarkable stroke. Can he get to a hundred?

  5. Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    It was a very awkward one - Zampa had to sprint towards it and it only just about carried.

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    Buttler dropped on 70

    Starc will surely bowl two of those final three, spearing those sand shoe crushing yorkers in. A third dropped catch for Australia, Buttler driving down the ground and it was Zampa who was yorked as he dived forward at long-on. A tough one, but this is a tough business you know.

  7. James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    That is not a small boundary. That has gone miles!

  8. Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    What a wonderful shot by Chris Woakes! He was waiting for it and he's smashed it into the stands.

  9. 6 runs

    Eng 254-6

    Buttler 70, Woakes 37

    Woakes again underlining his importance to this England team, pulling Cummins over mid-wicket for another six, measured at 73 metres. Ten from the over. Three to go, how many more can they muster?

  10. Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    That was in Buttler's slot. This time he allowed his back leg to move towards the on side and let the bat flow.

  11. 6 runs

    Eng 244-6

    Simply glorious from Buttler. No need to move around in the crease this time - he stands tall to a full length one and strikes majestically through the line, over long-off it goes for his second six, bringing up the fifty partnership in under eight overs. Hazlewood finishes with 2-58 from his 10.

  12. James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    No-one plays that ramp shot better in world cricket than Jos Buttler.

  13. Eng 236-6

    Buttler 60, Woakes 29

    Buttler at his inventive best, positioning himself to flick the rapid Cummins over his shoulder and over the wicketkeeper for his third four to go with his one six. A glorious straight drive from Woakes races over the ropes for another boundary and he is up to 29 from 26 balls already.

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    Superb from Buttler, almost as satisfying as the massive coffee I have in front of me.

    Tim, Nottingham

  15. Eng 226-6

    Despite the heat, there is a section of guys and girls in full wedding regalia - top hats, tails meringue dresses, the works, which it transpires is for an Australian game show. At least it is not pinkened, burly, bushy-bearded prop forwards squeezed into the dresses, as it so often is at the cricket. I saw a picture of Chris Tavare dressed as Hilda Ogden the other day which I am still trying to recover from.

    An accurate, quick over from Hazlewood, just singles until Woakes squeezes one through mid-wicket for two from the final ball.

  16. James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    Australia have bowled well and the pitch is sluggish, with a bit of turn. But England have got themselves a platform they can launch from. I reckon par is 280.

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  17. Eng 219-6

    Buttler 53, Woakes 22

    Former England batsman James Taylor with perhaps something of a first for TMS summarisers - he has treated himself to a shave between stints. Can't imagine Fred Trueman ever did that. Woakes lashes two off the back foot from the final ball of Zampa's over but no boundaries.

  19. Eng 213-6

    Run-rate 5.07

    Starc rushes in for his eighth over and he is again up in the mid 140's, which is nudging 90mph. Woakes makes a little room and angles the drive expertly between the cover fielders to collect his second boundary.

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    Bowser: Jos Butter is England's AB de Villiers. Should absolutely be playing all formats of cricket. Travesty he doesn't.