Summary

  • Denly falls for 4 in England reply

  • Australia 497-8 dec: Smith 211

  • Smith dropped by Archer on 65

  • Caught off Leach no-ball on 118

  • Labuschagne 67, Paine 58, Starc 54*

  • England drop three catches

  • Fourth Test, day two, Old Trafford

  • Five-match series level at 1-1

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Matthew Henry

  1. England have Jos Buttler in the team of course so there is an easy solution if Jonny Bairstow is injured. For now the Yorkshireman is going to stick at it.

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    Is England's plan to give Ben Stokes the chance to score 250 in the final innings so that he can upstage himself?

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  3. Call up The Rocket.

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    Richard Amery: England need snookers now.

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  5. Aus 362-5

    Smith 168, Paine 56

    England are making Time Paine look like Ricky Ponting now. He chops a wide delivery by Archer away for four. The runs are coming at will.

    The physio comes on for Bairstow at the end of the over. The right thumb looks to be the issue.

  6. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    England have had their chances today, they just simply haven't taken them.

  7. Aus 358-5

    Bairstow is fighting it out but is clearly in pain.

    Stuart Broad now takes a tumble on the damp outfield when he boot slips. That's just about the only way it could get worse for England.

  8. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    That moved a lot after it went past the stumps, and it's hurt Jonny Bairstow.

  9. ouch!

    Dearie me. Jonny Bairstow is now squatting behind the stumps after taking one awkwardly. Has he hurt a thumb or finger?

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    Matt Critchley dismissed Steve Smith for 23 last week. Why didn't England call him up?!

    Despairing Ed, Beds

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  11. Aus 355-5

    This is a longer session by the way because of yesterday's rain. Tea will be at 16:10 BST. Leach has a pop over the wicket into the footholes but Paine can just kick the ball away.

    Australia have scored 110 runs in this session without losing a wicket.

  12. Those two drops of Paine I mentioned...

  13. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    This is Tim Paine's sixth half-century in Test cricket and his 30th since he made his only first-class hundred in 2016.

  14. Alison Mitchell
    BBC Test Match Special

    Tim Paine needed that.

  15. 50 runs

    50 for Paine

    There's the fifty for Australia captain Tim Paine.

    He has been badly short of runs in this series, and he's been dropped twice in this knock, but he has a half-century to his name.

  16. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    I can't think of anyone who loves batting more than Steve Smith, apart from maybe Cheteshwar Pujara, who can bat all day, not score a run and not be bothered by that at all.

  17. It feels like Tim Paine has been on 49 for ages. He's on strike at the start of this over.

  18. Aus 353-5

    Smith 166, Paine 49

    Even Andrew is struggling.

    I'm sorry to say the ground is bathed in sunshine now. The threat of rain has gone.

    Jack Leach is returning.

  19. Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Oh, about a million...

  20. Alison Mitchell
    BBC Test Match Special

    How many hours has Steve Smith been batting for in this series, Andrew?