Summary

  • England win by one wicket

  • Injured Stokes 135 not out

  • Stokes & Leach add 76 - Leach 1*

  • England's highest chase in Test history

  • Stokes dropped on 34 & 116

  • Survives lbw shout on 131

  • Australia had no reviews left

  • Headingley, third Test, day four

  • Series level at 1-1

Live Reporting

Tom Rostance and Jack Skelton

  1. Pat Cummins is into the attack but isn't taking the new ball quite yet, giving himself a few deliveries with the old cherry first.

  2. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    That is the first four since the 64th over.

  3. Eng 166-4

    Stokes 7, Bairstow 2

    Shot! Ben Stokes whips Nathan Lyon away through mid-wicket for a four!

    Positively motoring along. Ahem.

  4. Would you not rather Ben Stokes kept missing opportunities to score than a pre-meditated skip down the pitch that gets him out?

    Joe Root just didn't need to do that. He's so good at going back and playing late to the spinner. There was always going to be enough singles just tapping off his pads.

    Skipping down the pitch is always more risky.

  5. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I have never seen Headingley full at 11am on a Sunday. Fantastic to see.

    This first session is crucial - they all know it.

    Ben Stokes is three from 72, you can see his mindset. But he is missing opportunities to score.

    Joe Root walks back to the pavilion after losing his wicket for 77 runs on the fourth day of the third Ashes cricket Test match between England and Australia at HeadingleyAFP

  6. Eng 161-4

    Ben Stokes is drawn into the shot by James Pattinson and the ball just leaves him to beat the outside edge.

  7. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    That is six catches in the match for David Warner - one behind Greg Chappell and Matthew Hayden for Australia.

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    AMT89: Oh Joe. What have you done? This man is seriously in need of a break. Decision making of a 12-year-old in a school game.

    Theo: Joe Root... that is captain clueless. Nothing to gain by taking Lyon on there. Goodbye Ashes.

    Matthew Moore: That is incredibly poor decision-making and three overs before a new ball. Undoes all the good work of yesterday. Root yet again showing why he is a class below Kohli, Smith and Williamson.

  9. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Headingley

    After all of Saturday's battling, bravery and patience, for Joe Root to do that to Lyon's third delivery is utterly bizarre.

  10. Jeez. It's such a brilliant catch by Warner. The anticipation to realise Paine isn't getting it and time the dive perfectly. That's six catches in the match for the Australia batsman.

  11. Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    356 Test wickets for Nathan Lyon is an amazing effort. For a finger spinner to have that many wickets, especially when he's played as much cricket on pitches in Australia, is incredible.

    Joe Root would want his time again - that's all down to the pressure of so long without scoring a run. Australia have given them nothing.

  12. Eng 160-4

    Need 199 more runs to win

    Jonny Bairstow works it to square leg for a single to get off the mark.

    Well, England need under 200 runs now at least.

  13. He did not. A bizarre dismissal.

    Out comes Jonny Bairstow.

  14. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at Headingley

    Faces of disbelief in the crowd. "Why, Joe?" asks one fan. Did Root have to come down the pitch?

    Joe Root (R) plays a shot to lose his wicket for 77 runs on the fourth day of the third Ashes cricket Test match between England and Australia at HeadingleyAFP

  15. That wicket takes Nathan Lyon past Dennis Lillee to become the third leading Test wicket taker for Australia after Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath.

    Lyon has 356 Test scalps now.

  16. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    Applause for Root but he has not been able to do much damage today.

    England batsman Joe Root leaves the field after being caught by David WarnerGetty Images
  17. wicket

    WICKET

    Root c Warner b Lyon 77 (Eng 159-4)

    Well that's that then.

    Joe Root skips down the pitch, trying to access the gap at mid-wicket but inside edges it into his pads and the ball loops up over Tim Paine's shoulder.

    But David Warner puts in a sublime dive to take a brilliant catch from first slip.

    All the ingredients an England fan hates - Nathan Lyon dismissing Root via a tremendous Warner catch.

  18. Eng 159-3

    Now Ben Stokes clips it off his pads for his first run of the morning.

  19. Eng 158-3

    With the new ball three overs away, Nathan Lyon is into the attack.

    Joe Root turns his first ball round the corner for an easy single.

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