Summary

  • Buttler sees England home with 28-ball fifty

  • Openers Roy & Bairstow put on 174 inside 24 overs

  • Roy out for 101 off 81 balls; Bairstow makes 79 off 66

  • Australia 310-8: Marsh 101, Finch 100, Head 63

  • Willey takes four late wickets as Australia collapse from 256-3

  • England - 3-0 up in series - looking for whitewash

  1. Postpublished at 20:37 British Summer Time 21 June 2018

    Australia need wickets. Billy Stanlake, come on down...

  2. Eng 254-4published at 39 overs

    Need 57 from 66 balls

    Oo-er. An uppish drive from Alex Hales, cries of 'catch', but the field is back and the ball drops harmlessly well in front of long-off.

    Jos Buttler picks up his first boundary with an exquisite clip through mid-wicket. It teases the chasing Alex Carey all the way but wins the race to the fence, to the delight of the home crowd down there.

    Alex HalesImage source, Rex Features
  3. Eng 249-4published at 38 overs

    Target 311

    As good as that wicket must feel for Australia, it must be tempered slightly by seeing Jos Buttler stride out to bat.

    The England keeper gets off the mark with a single off the returning Jhye Richardson before punching a lovely square drive out to the man in the deep for two.

  4. Postpublished at 20:30 British Summer Time 21 June 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It was a regulation take from Paine, but batsmen aren't the most objective. Morgan must've have persuaded himself that the noise had come from something else.

  5. Postpublished at 20:30 British Summer Time 21 June 2018

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    That's all a bit curious, because it was a big nick.

  6. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 37 overs

    Morgan c Paine b Agar 15 (Eng 244-4)

    On replay, it seems like one of the most obvious edges you could ever see.

    For some reason Eoin Morgan wasn't convinced but the third umpire confirms Michael Gough's decision and the England captain is out.

    Are England in any danger of making a mess of this? Shortly after looking to push the pace, Morgan falls, just as Joe Root did before.

    Canny stuff from Ashton Agar too, sending the arm ball across the left-hander.

    Ashton Agar celebrates dismissing Eoin MorganImage source, Rex Features
  7. Postpublished at 20:28 British Summer Time 21 June 2018

    Looks to be a spike as the ball passes the bat. Eoin Morgan should be on his way here.

  8. Postpublished at 20:28 British Summer Time 21 June 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    This seems regulation. I can't think of anything else it would have hit.

  9. England reviewpublished at 37 overs

    Eoin Morgan goes to scythe Ashton Agar away, Tim Paine takes the catch behind.

    Australia go up and it's given.

    Morgan quickly signals for the review.

  10. Eng 244-3published at 36.5 overs

    Eoin Morgan reverses his hands and mashes it round through third man for four.

    More conventional but the same result as the England captain lofts a drive over wide mid-off, one bounce and four more.

  11. Who'd be a keeper?published at 20:25 British Summer Time 21 June 2018

    Which is the worst bit of keeping this evening?

    A) Tim Paine...

    B) Willy Caballero...

    Media caption,

    'Mistakes don't come a lot worse' - Caballero clanger gifts Croatia lead

  12. Postpublished at 20:24 British Summer Time 21 June 2018

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    It's gone from being the romping win we thought it would be to being something where England must make sure they actually get there.

  13. Eng 232-3published at 36 overs

    Need 79 from 84 balls

    Michael Neser continues and England calmly tap him around for three singles.

    Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales are not likely to be flustered by the loss of Joe Root.

  14. Eng 229-3published at 35 overs

    Target 311

    England captain Eoin Morgan is the new man in and clips it down to long-on to get off the mark with a single.

  15. Postpublished at 20:19 British Summer Time 21 June 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Root will be fed up with himself. He had dragged Agar for six. He was looking to hit that one squarer and he missed it. It shouldn't have an impact, but England are in danger of doing what they did at The Oval.

    Ashton Agar celebrates dismissing Joe RootImage source, Rex Features
  16. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 34.4 overs

    Root b Agar 27 (Eng 228-3)

    Well Joe Root is done for the day. Still a bit to do for England, mind.

    Having profited with the sweep shot against Ashton Agar he goes for another one but the Aussie spinner has held it back a bit in the flight.

    Root mistimes his mow, through the shot too early and sees his stumps rearranged.

    Ashton Agar bowls Joe RootImage source, Rex Features
  17. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 20:14 British Summer Time 21 June 2018

    #bbccricket

    Michael Fergus: Some of the great Aussie teams of old would struggle to beat this England team!

  18. Eng 226-2published at 34 overs

    Need 85 from 96 balls

    Neser tightens up and finds a better length, with Hales keeping out one that bounced a little low.

  19. Eng 225-2published at 33.1 overs

    I think Joe Root was reading some of your local pub suggestions while waiting to come in and fancies visiting one soon.

    Michael Neser bangs it in short, Root rocks back and pulls it over mid-wicket for four to the longest boundary. That might well have been six at Trent Bridge.

  20. Eng 221-2published at 33 overs

    Need 90 runs to win

    Joe Root taps a single off the last to keep the strike.