Summary

  • England lose three late wickets

  • England slip from 166-2 to 196-5

  • Burns 81, Root 71, Roy 22

  • Four wickets for Hazlewood

  • Burns & Root add 141 from 25-2

  • Rain & bad light shortens day

  • Australia 497-8 dec: Smith 211

  • Fourth Test, day three, Old Trafford

  • Australia will retain Ashes with win

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Amy Lofthouse

  1. Eng 133-2

    There's a bloke right at the top of the party stand who has taken his shirt off. Put some clothes on, sir, it's freezing!

    The two exchange singles, which takes Joe Root to 49.

  2. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    That was an absolute peach - the perfect off-break apart from it didn't take the edge.

  3. Eng 131-2

    Trail by 366

    Nathan Lyon rips a beauty past Rory Burns' outside edge. Not that anyone is paying any attention. They're still laughing at him dropping the ball.

  4. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    I don't think this amuses Lyon a great deal.

  5. Eng 131-2

    A little nervy for Joe Root as Nathan Lyon drifts a delivery into his pads before a fine little dab allows him to pick up a single.

    The crowd are still cheering Lyon whenever he catches the ball. Oh, and he's dropped it! Lyon is absolutely fuming! The crowd go wild. Amazing.

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    I quit my job at a helium inflatables factory. I refuse to be spoken to in that tone.

    Nigel, Battersea

  7. Eng 130-2

    Burns 67, Root 47

    Rory Burns weaves and ducks under a short ball before he lets some teasing deliveries go sliding past his off stump.

    Oh! A beauty from Pat Cummins, beating Burns all ends up, and it goes flying through to Tim Paine behind the stumps. Cummins has bowled so well today.

  8. Pat Cummins, who troubled Joe Root before tea, will continue...

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    Simon Goodall: It's my inflatable boomerang's birthday today. I would like everybody to wish it many happy returns.

  10. Eng 130-2

    Rory Burns snaffles a single from the final ball of Nathan Lyon's over.

  11. Eng 129-2

    Shot!

    Too short, a bit quicker, and Rory Burns hops backs and cuts Nathan Lyon away for four. Lovely.

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  13. Eng 125-2

    A solid defensive prod from Rory Burns first up.

    Nathan Lyon is still getting an ovation whenever he fields the ball, which I'm sure will do loads to lift his spirits.

  14. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Wickets can fall in a clatter. England won't be complacent in the dressing room. They will want this pair to get in again.

  15. Play can - and probably will - go on until 19:30 BST tonight.

    What I'm saying is, settle yourselves in for a long one. Nathan Lyon will get us going after tea.

  16. Jack Skelton
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    No one in this Test is having as miserable a time of it as Hamish Rutherford. The Worcestershire batsman was recalled by New Zealand for the final Twenty20 in Sri Lanka and has just fallen for a duck in that Malinga spell. All that way.

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  18. Meanwhile, Lasith Malinga, in his T20 swansong, has just taken four wickets in four balls for the second time in his career.

    Astonishing.

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    Fed up of eating dinner off my lap, I went out and bought a giant blow up T Rex. People think I'm mad but it's my in-flat-table.

    Tom P

  20. Blue sky above Old Trafford. Actual sunshine to boot. Bat, bat, and bat some more.