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. 'A tremendous day for Test cricket'

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Australia have had a really good last hour. It's been a tremendous day for Test match cricket, very hard fought. The Root and Burns partnership was tremendous. They played with an awareness and nullified risk. We need to give Burns a huge amount of credit. He has been found out against the short ball a little bit but he came here with a different technique. He's improving.

  2. Can we really expect Stokes to do it again?

  3. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    We're asking Ben Stokes to dip into his well again.

  4. Close of play - Eng 200-5

    That's officially stumps.

    England end day three 297 runs behind Australia. They still need 98 to avoid the follow-on and only have five wickets left.

  5. Can we rewind to the afternoon when Joe Root and Rory Burns were ticking along and our biggest problem was thinking of a good inflatables pun?

    Those three wickets have put Australia right in command.

    Here are the first two - the two set batsmen.

  6. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    England would take a draw from this position. I don't think the tailenders will last long against this attack. It's down to Stokes, Bairstow and Buttler to bat out the morning session.

  7. Roy is currently sat in the dressing room looking utterly miserable. He has his face in his palm.

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    I do feel for Roy. He's not a Test player, no shame in that, and the selectors have led him like a lamb to the slaughter.

    Dom

  9. We have to be playing again by 19:00 BST or that will be it for the day. 14 overs will be lost and England will have avoided having to bat for another tricky 40 minutes.

  10. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    This highlights how bad a shot Jason Roy's was. If you're going to be a Test match cricketer you've got to have an awareness of the game and what's happening above you.

  11. Bad light stops play

    After taking the light reading the umpires must have decided it's too dark.

    Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow are straight off. The Aussies are lingering around in the middle.

  12. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    They're walking off!

    Stokes and bairstowAFP

  13. There are four shadows around each player being cast by the floodlights. I'm not even sure it's good enough for the spinners.

  14. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Marnus Labuschagne is taking his shin pads off, so he'll be having a trundle.

  15. On comes the fourth umpire with the light meter.

  16. This looks like a signal of 'you need to bowl your spinners in this light, Tim'.

  17. The umpires have now come together...

  18. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    There's a huge bank of cloud away to our left. It's getting really dark. We might almost be at the point where Labuschagne has to bowl.

  19. Eng 200-5

    Marais Erasmus is having a nervous look around at the skies. The weather could help England.

    Stokes sees off this over from Lyon.

  20. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Jason Roy is not going to get Test match runs batting in that fashion.

    Jason RoyReuters