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

  1. Postpublished at 14:43 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Australia will be quite happy to see that.

    Rory Burns hooksImage source, Reuters
  2. Eng 68-2published at 26.2 overs

    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.

  3. Postpublished at 14:42 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    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.

  4. Postpublished at 14:42 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    At least let the unicorn watch the cricket.

  5. Postpublished at 14:41 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    You can't damage the unicorn! The steward is going to do the ghastly deed.

  6. Postpublished at 14:41 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    Erm. An inflatable unicorn is distracting everyone.

  7. Postpublished at 14:41 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    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.

  8. Eng 64-2published at 26 overs

    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.

  9. Postpublished at 14:38 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    This is well played.

  10. Postpublished at 14:38 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    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.

  11. Eng 59-2published at 25 overs

    Root 15, Burns 28

    Dot, dot ends the over from Pat Cummins.

  12. Eng 59-2published at 24.4 overs

    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.

  13. Postpublished at 14:33 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    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.

    Rory BurnsImage source, PA Media
  14. Postpublished at 14:33 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    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.

  15. Eng 51-2published at 24 overs

    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.

    Joe RootImage source, Reuters
  16. Postpublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

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  17. Postpublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    Just quietly - if you want someone to do the short ball barrage at the batsman, would you not get Starc to do it?

  18. Eng 50-2published at 23 overs

    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.

  19. Eng 50-2published at 22.1 overs

    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.

  20. Postpublished at 14:25 British Summer Time 6 September 2019

    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.