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. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    You can tell when Nathan Lyon picks up the ball because the crowd are being very encouraging when he does so successfully.

  2. Lyon was enjoying this at first but I'm not sure he is now.

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    Rory Burns looks like Alastair Cook if he was a baddie in Hollyoaks. Personally, I think the lad will go far.

    Dave, Bristol

  4. Highlights: Burns' fifty

  5. Eng 109-2

    Trail by 388

    It sounds like the full crowd are joining in with this cheer for Nathan Lyon now. Love it.

  6. Eng 109-2

    More loud cheers from the crowd as Nathan Lyon catches the easiest of lobs from cover. He's not smiling anymore.

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

    The duel between Root and Lyon is fascinating. Root is still not looking totally convincing, and there is spin there for Lyon. Root is ill at ease against him but the pressure has been released a little bit with all the runs coming off Starc at the other end.

  8. Eng 108-2

    Burns 57, Root 35

    Terrible, Mike. I punish you to a net against Mitchell Starc.

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    Mike Bell: Why all this fuss about inflatables? Been blown up out of all proportion. Mind you, there's a good reason they cost a lot more these days. Inflation.

  10. Eng 108-2

    Jonny Bairstow is wearing his white England sleeveless jumper over his navy blue tracksuit.

    Not sure about that one Jonny.

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

    Cummins' short balls were really troubling Burns because they were skidding through at about chest height, and he couldn't duck very easily. When Starc has gone short, the ball has sailed over his head. It's much easier to avoid those.

  12. Eng 108-2

    That just shows England are going well. They're trying to get a rendition of 'Everywhere We Go' now too.

  13. Jack Skelton
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    A group in stand C are trying to get a rendition of that Mitchell Johnson song going with Starc in his place. It just doesn’t scan as well, guys.

  14. Eng 107-2

    Burns 57, Root 34

    This is excellent from the crowd. Rory Burns goes for a kamikaze run and is sent back by Root. The opener turns and makes his ground before Nathan Lyon can take the bails off.

    Unlike last week at Headingley Lyon does take the ball cleanly and he gets a huge sarcastic cheer. Lyon sees the funny side when the cheers continue after the next ball too.

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

    He's lucky there - Lyon knows it and Root knows it.

  16. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    That was an ambitious stroke to a ball that was turning back into him.

  17. Eng 106-2

    Trail by 391

    Root has done it again. For the second time in the last few overs he inside edges past his own stumps. This was perilously close to off stump. It was a hideous dab from the England skipper.

  18. Jack Skelton
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    A tremendous noise as England reach 100. Cheers, applause and the stomping of feet.

  19. Eng 102-2

    Burns 57, Root 29

    100 up. And England have only lost two wickets!

    A rousing round of applause from the crowd. Some are even on their feet in that towering stand.

    Mitchell Starc's two overs in this spell have cost 22 runs.

  20. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    Beware Mitchell Starc. He leaked runs against Derbyshire last week, then took three wickets in an over.