Summary

  • Stokes & Buttler stabilise from 71-4

  • Cummins & Siddle two wickets each

  • Roy 2, Root 0, Denly 26, Burns 29

  • Stokes - batting at 5 - dropped on 6

  • Warner drops two catches

  • Aus 250 - trail by 8 on first innings

  • Smith 92 - retired hurt on 80

  • Archer hit Smith on arm then neck

  • Lord's, second Test, day four

  • Australia lead 1-0 in five-Test series

  1. Postpublished at 17:38 British Summer Time 17 August 2019

    Isa Guha
    Ex-England women's bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Oooof. Look at Justin Langer on the balcony, clenched fist. He's got a stress ball!

  2. Postpublished at 17:38 British Summer Time 17 August 2019

    Well then. That lbw shout off Nathan Lyon? The technology suggets it was going on to hit Rory Burns' stumps.

    That's a missed opportunity for Australia. Justin Langer, up on the balcony, is furious. He's got a stress ball clutched in his fist!

  3. Eng 39-2published at 14 overs

    What are you doing?!

    Rory Burns goes for a huge, gallumphing sweep to Nathan Lyon's final ball, and he just places it between the two fielders that were there for that shot.

  4. Eng 37-2published at 13.5 overs

    Oh, Nathan Lyon really likes this, firing in a quicker delivery to Rory Burns and striking him on the pads.

    Aleem Dar shakes his head and, after a long conversation, they decide not to review.

  5. Postpublished at 17:36 British Summer Time 17 August 2019

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Burns is looking to play off the back foot and that is annoying for a spin bowler. You then bowl fuller and the batsman can smother it.

  6. Eng 37-2published at 13.4 overs

    Australia have been uncharacteristically scruffy in the field. This time it's Pat Cummins, sliding on his knees at short third man, who misses the ball and allows Rory Burns to snaffle an extra run.

    Oh, that's a shot and a half though! Four for Burns with another furious cut against Lyon!

  7. Postpublished at 17:33 British Summer Time 17 August 2019

    That's three catches Australia have put down off Peter Siddle. No wonder there's a vein threatening to pop in his forehead.

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    Ben Thapa: Great tactical drop there from Warner in a desperate attempt to keep Denly in the England side.

  9. Moeen to returnpublished at 17:33 British Summer Time 17 August 2019

    Elsewhere in the cricket world, Moeen Ali - who decided on a break from cricket after making only four runs at Edgbaston and being dropped for this Test - will return for Worcestershire in their Championship match against Northamptonshire starting on Sunday.

    Moeen AliImage source, PA Media
  10. Eng 30-2published at 13 overs

    Burns 18, Denly 8

    Ugh. Rory Burns has a back foot swipe at a delivery that Peter Siddle hangs outside his off stump. Nervy times.

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    Tom Sunderland: James Hildreth would still be batting if England had picked him.

  12. Postpublished at 17:31 British Summer Time 17 August 2019

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    It just carried. It wasn't too difficult. Warner saw it all the way because Denly steered it to him with an open face.

  13. dropped catch

    Denly dropped on 7published at 12.1 overs

    Edged - and dropped!

    Now this is an edge that has carried, and David Warner hasn't picked it up properly. It comes quickly to him, Denly caught between pushing and leaving, but the ball drops low to Warner's right and he can't get his hands underneath it.

  14. Postpublished at 17:29 British Summer Time 17 August 2019

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    That was a bit of a rubbish over from a top-class bowler.

  15. Eng 29-2published at 12 overs

    Lead by 37

    Nathan Lyon's radar is a touch wonky but Rory Burns helps him out by playing an awful hoick at a wide delivery, and somehow just underedging it past his stumps.

  16. Postpublished at 17:27 British Summer Time 17 August 2019

    Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    Very good shot but be careful. Lyon has a good straight-on ball. Be selective.

  17. Eng 27-2published at 11.2 overs

    Filth. Short, wide, going wider, and Rory Burns is almost doing the splits as he toe-ends a cut to point.

    Oh, and that's four! Short again from Lyon, and Burns backs away and cracks a cut away to the boundary.

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    Cam Macculloch: This certainly is more exciting than one team scoring 500 in two days and a tame draw.

  19. Postpublished at 17:25 British Summer Time 17 August 2019

    Ah. Here comes Nathan Lyon.

    Australia are relentless - they can shuffle their bowlers around so that there's always a threat to the batsmen.

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    Steve in Yorkshire: All in the mind. If nobody can match Burns attitude then they should not be in the team, whoever they are.

    Darren in Harrogate: No coincidence that England's success in the World Cup did not occur under Root's captaincy.