Postpublished at 14:25 British Summer Time 6 September 2019
Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Old Trafford
I'm always amazed by the number of portaloos shipped into Old Trafford for a Test match. You don't see them anywhere else.
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
Postpublished at 14:25 British Summer Time 6 September 2019
Eng 49-2published at 22 overs
Joe Root decides he much prefers facing Nathan Lyon's off-spin compared to Pat Cummins' pace and promptly pats his way through a maiden.
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Al Illingworth: Hearing Freddie talking about coaching at lunch makes you wonder. Was he approached for The Hundred? What a perfect opportunity for him and the tournament.
Postpublished at 14:22 British Summer Time 6 September 2019
Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match SpecialGreat cricket.
Eng 49-2published at 21 overs
Trail by 448
Pat Cummins! That's an absolute snorter, the ball spitting and rising and firing up on Rory Burns, and Burns yanks one hand off the bat and plays it down towards his toes.
He's done so well to get bat on that. I'd have just flapped at it.
Eng 49-2published at 20.5 overs
Rory Burns has had a bit of trouble against the short ball but he plays this one nicely from Pat Cummins, getting bat on ball and popping it down on his toes.
Matthew Wade has a bit of a chirp from short leg. Considering the shot he played in Australia's innings, I'm not sure he's best qualified to hand out batting advice.
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Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match SpecialRoot has looked pretty good so far. I sense England need a long, long partnership here. These two have the patience.
I'd love to be England coach one day - Flintoffpublished at 14:17 British Summer Time 6 September 2019
Former all-rounder Andrew Flintoff says he would "love" to be England coach one day.
Flintoff, 41, retired from international cricket in 2009 and currently presents BBC motoring show Top Gear.
England coach Trevor Bayliss will step down at the end of this summer's Ashes series and his successor has not yet been appointed.
"Coaching is definitely an ambition," Flintoff told BBC Test Match Special.
"There are probably two or three coaching jobs I'd like - England, Lancashire or Lancashire Academy.
"I'd love to be England coach one day, just not quite yet."
Image source, Getty ImagesEng 49-2published at 20 overs
Burns 28, Root 10
Rory Burns goes deep into his crease, so deep he's almost sat on the stumps, and Nathan Lyon has his hands in the air as he almost snaffles one through the batsman's defences.
Burns gets down low and sweeps, not convincingly, but well enough for a single.
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Spin time - here's Nathan Lyon.
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None of the England bowlers are cutting my hair. They'd try their best but it would be too short.
Simon, Leeds
Eng 48-2published at 19 overs
Trail by 449
A yelp from Pat Cummins as he entices an inside edge out of Joe Root, the ball trickling onto Root's big toe before heading away towards the slips.
Oh! That's a play and a miss from Joe Root, tempted into a push forward, feet and head going nowhere, and that'll be a maiden.
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Mitchell Starc is off and Pat Cummins is on.
It's not a bad change to make, is it?
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Chris Martin. No footwork so he'd be doing all the cutting from the same place, and he'd keep having a swing at your fringe and missing.
Dom, Cornwall
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match SpecialHazlewood is a crackerjack bowler. He bowls that line and length that is teasing and awkward. He gets a bit of bounce as well.
He gets so many balls in that awkward area like Glenn McGrath did.
Eng 48-2published at 18 overs
Block, block and block some more from Joe Root, before he gallops through for a leg bye that Tim Paine can't collect cleanly.
Another wayward delivery down the leg side from Josh hazlewood, and Tim Paine does really well to hustle across and stop it racing away.
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Jonathan Trott, not much choice of trim as he only dealt in ones and twos.
Will, Cambridge
Postpublished at 14:04 British Summer Time 6 September 2019
Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match SpecialBurns has had to weave and bob but anything he has been able to get on the front foot to hit he has put away well.
Image source, Getty ImagesEng 47-2published at 17 overs
Trail by 450
Mitchell Starc goes for a toe-crunching yorker and he gets clipped away nicely by Rory Burns for a couple.
Another little tickle through backward square adds another two to England's total. Lovely stuff.
Eng 43-2published at 16.2 overs
Trail by 454
Four! A full toss from Mitchell Starc, his radar waving, and Rory Burns bends the knee to get forward and stroke it through point for four.
Starc grumbles and then calls for a new pair of bowling boots.
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