Summary

  • England lose six wickets on final afternoon to fall to 251-run defeat

  • England had been 60-1 when Roy was bowled through the gate

  • Lyon takes six wickets and brings up 350 Test victims and Cummins, with four, passes 100 wickets

  • Australia's first victory at Edgbaston since 2001

  • Second Test begins at Lord's on 14 August

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry

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    If we can reach 141 then our numbers 1-3 and 5-11 will have beaten Australia's 1-3 & 5-11! Clutching at straws?

    David in Slough

  2. Pat Cummins returns to the attack to try and wrap things up.

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    Make Woakes England batting coach?

    Cliff

  4. Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    Both captains missed a trick in not playing a second spinner.

  5. Eng 146-9

    Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy!

    Chris Woakes gives him one ball to survive at the end of Nathan Lyon's over and England's number 11 edges through slip for four.

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    The skies are looking very dark over the University of Birmingham, and the clouds are heading your way.....

    Dr Rik Bryan

  7. Here are those two wickets in two balls that have put Australia on the brink of taking the lead in an Ashes series in England for the first time since 2005.

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    David Alcock: There's an old familiar feeling from looking at the cricket scorecard.

    Tom Simpson: Who would have thought that when these two were last batting that England go onto lose the test by well over 200 runs.

    Jake Conlon: Bernie Ecclestone once suggested placing sprinklers at the side of F1 tracks to randomly simulate rain, couldn’t a few of the groundsmen at Edgebaston do the same thing for us?

  9. Eng 141-9

    Australia need one wicket to win

    Jimmy Anderson is capable of hobbling a single. He gets through at the end of the over and that means Chris Woakes keeps the strike.

  10. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    Steve Smith, of all people.

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    Woakes dropped on 31

    Steve Smith makes a mistake! He has shelled the chance to catch Chris Woakes at second slip.

    The ball goes for four too.

  12. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    From the moment Pat Cummins broke through and removed Rory Burns, England were on the back foot.

    But Jason Roy really opened up the door.

  13. Eng 136-9

    An umbrella has gone up in the stands. I think that's just an England fan trying to trick the umpires.

  14. The lights have come on as a dark cloud looms over. Just saying.

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  16. Eng 136-9

    Australia need one wicket to win

    Well batted, Jimmy. The crowd sings his name. I suggested Woakes would try and get a single to keep the strike but we haven't seen any evidence yet that Anderson could run through for a single.

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    Now looks like a great decision to bat first.

    John Adams

  18. Eng 136-9

    Australia have three slips to a spinner. Anderson is doing his best.

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    England's batting used to be the model of conservativism and sensibility now it's just the model of idiocy. The problems start with the captain. Roots a good bat but a woeful captain who cracks under too pressure. Root should go.

    James from London

  20. Eng 136-9

    48 overs remaining

    The field comes in at the end of Siddle's over and Woakes can't get a single to keep the strike. It'll be Nathan Lyon to James Anderson next.

    Will this be the end?