Postpublished at 14:43 British Summer Time 6 September 2019
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent
Australia will be quite happy to see that.
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
Matthew Henry and Amy Lofthouse
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent
Australia will be quite happy to see that.
Short from Josh Hazlewood, Rory Burns hooks - and gets four!
Oh, I don't like that. It wasn't that convincing from Burns, swaying to one side and hoicking the ball down to fine leg, and it bounces once before thudding into the ropes.
Josh Hazlewood is coming back on, while the crowd jeer the stewards for deflating the unicorn.
There's a sentence you don't write very often.
Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
At least let the unicorn watch the cricket.
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent
You can't damage the unicorn! The steward is going to do the ghastly deed.
Erm. An inflatable unicorn is distracting everyone.
Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
It has been good cricket. Good bowling and good batting. If it has spun it has spun slowly so far for Lyon. It is also consistently spinning. You can get used to that as a batsman.
Trail by 433
Nathan Lyon drops short, and Rory Burns dances backwards to cut it nicely for one.
Whoops, now it's Lyon who loses his line, the ball spinning slowly into Joe Root's pads, and he tickles it around the corner for another four.
This is well played.
Jack Skelton
BBC Sport at Old Trafford
Pat Cummins has been called for one no-ball in this spell but he looks to be very close to the line every time. That nasty delivery that Rory Burns managed to fend off was especially tight. Could be interesting if he does claim a wicket. Just ask Jack Leach.
Root 15, Burns 28
Dot, dot ends the over from Pat Cummins.
Down the leg side goes Pat Cummins, and that'll be four leg byes to the total. The only way Tim Paine was getting hold of that is if his arms are made of elastic.
And now four off the bat! Cummins strays into Root's pads and he's clipped handsomely away to the boundary.
Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
Burns has done well. When you get to 20s or 30s you have to keep your concentration. Don't go for an expansive shot and get out. The bowlers are still fresh. The ball is still quite new. Keep going to 50 and then the game opens up.
Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
When Joe Root comes down to the spinner he gets on the wrong side of the ball. He could try to play that a bit straighter.
Don't do that! Joe Root comes dancing down the pitch for no real reason and the ball drifts into his pads, bringing about a half-yelp from Nathan Lyon. Short leg is lurking for that shot.
That's better from Root, moving backwards and clipping a quicker ball away for a single to end the over.
This is the best thing EVER.
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Just quietly - if you want someone to do the short ball barrage at the batsman, would you not get Starc to do it?
Trail by 447
Peter Siddle, watching on from the Australian balcony, has about four different layers of clothing on. Watching him bowl for Essex in a beanie was one of my highlights of the season.
Another short ball from Pat Cummins, another tidy sway underneath it from Rory Burns. He's playing the short stuff really well.
Rory Burns is getting nothing in his half of the pitch at the minute.
Still, that'll be the England 50 up, courtesy of a Pat Cummins no ball.
Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
I always felt silly point was only partly there to catch the ball but also partly to put you off and get in your head.
I would play the ball wherever the spin was going and take the man out of my head.
I thought if I played the ball properly then he is totally irrelevant.