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

  1. Postpublished at 11:15 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    Quiet again at Old Trafford. Encouragement of the England fielders and individual shouts from spectators clearly audible.

  2. Postpublished at 11:15 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Jason Roy's having an attempt at getting the ball changed.

    He tries to grab it out of Marais Erasmus' hands and push it through that ball measuring thing - there's definitely a more technical term for that - but Erasmus keeps moving it further and further out of his reach.

    The upshot is, they're not going to change the ball.

  3. Postpublished at 11:14 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Jack Skelton
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    A temporary solution...

    VanImage source, BBC Sport

    ...before a more permanent one is found.

    Van
  4. Postpublished at 11:14 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Mark Wood said yesterday that it is England's plan to completely ignore Smith and all of his mannerisms. It would be easy to get frustrated.

  5. Aus 181-3published at 47 overs

    Run rate 3.85

    There's some swing there for Stuart Broad as he nips one past Steve Smith's off stump, before Smith goes through his tippy-tapping routines.

    Broad whistles down a filthy bouncer that Smith barely has to duck and Smith snaffles a single to end the over.

  6. How's stat?!published at 11:11 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    On the first day of a Test Steve Smith averages 119.94. On day two onwards he becomes a normal great - not just an 'out of this world great' - and averages 51.

  7. Postpublished at 11:10 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Stuart Broad will bowl to Steve Smith.

    Top of off, please...

  8. Postpublished at 11:10 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    You would think this was a man playing in his first Test match. Smith is jittery, nervous and all over the place.

  9. Aus 180-3published at 46 overs

    Travis Head ends another frenetic over with a poke and a miss outside the off stump.

  10. Postpublished at 11:09 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    I don't think Jofra Archer likes the cold weather at all. He didn't have a good day yesterday.

  11. Aus 180-3published at 45.4 overs

    Steve Smith plays a horrible drive to inside edge Jofra Archer's latest delivery past his stumps.

    This is a strange, strange start to the morning...

  12. Postpublished at 11:08 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Replays make catches look easy but Archer will think he should have caught that.

    Jofra ArcherImage source, Getty Images
  13. dropped catch

    Smith dropped on 65published at 45.3 overs

    A chance - but Jofra Archer can't cling on!

    It's a full toss, truth be told, and Steve Smith bunts it straight back down the ground. Archer gets his hands across in his follow through, gets fingertips on it, but it bursts through and ends up trickling for four!

    Oh, no...

  14. Aus 175-3published at 45.2 overs

    Shot!

    That's not a great follow-up from Jofra Archer, short but not menacing, and Steve Smith cracks it through cover for his first four of the morning.

  15. Postpublished at 11:07 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    When was the last time Steve Smith has been beaten twice in his first half a dozen balls?!

  16. Aus 171-3published at 45.1 overs

    Beaten outside the off stump!

    Steve Smith has been beaten twice this morning. That feels almost historic.

  17. Postpublished at 11:06 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Right, Jofra Archer will have a bowl at Steve Smith...

  18. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 11:05 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    #bbccricket

    Alan Broadbent: All aboard the Archer express!!

  19. Postpublished at 11:05 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    Yet another new plan for Steve Smith - Ben Stokes lurking at a quirky deep leg gully...

    Old Trafford
  20. Aus 171-3published at 45 overs

    The first run of the day comes as Steve Smith tucks an easy single off his legs.