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. 10 overs to go until the new ball...

  2. Eng 189-4

    Roy 18, Stokes 2

    Jason Roy's highest score of the series is 28. A few more shots like this and he will beat that tonight.

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  4. Eng 188-4

    Ben Stokes is off the mark and now another good shot from Jason Roy follows. He pushes for three and Nathan Lyon doesn't take the return throw cleanly. The crowd is amused.

  5. Eng 184-4

    Australia have a long-on to Jason Roy and I have absolutely no idea why. He takes a single.

  6. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    I feel like we might need another one of those amazing innings from Stokes just to keep England in it.

  7. Eng 183-4

    Roy 14, Stokes 0

    Jason Roy has settled down a little. He keeps the strike.

  8. Root - good or great?

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    Andrew Lafferty: Root makes 77 at Headingley and gets out, he makes 71 at Old Trafford and gets out, he is supposed to be up there with Kohli, Smith and Williamson, those three would have made a 100, Root's conversion rate is so poor in comparison.

    Paddy Emmerson: Another 50 another failure to convert to a 100, nice average but not a match winning performance in sight. People class him as a great, he isn't and never will be until he starts consistently converting the 50s.

  9. Eng 182-4

    Joe Root's conversion rate has definitely been mentioned on these pages before. It does not go unnoticed.

    Two more to Jason Roy.

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    Sahil Oberoi: The English media can wax lyrical as much as they like about Root but his failure to consistently convert fifties into hundreds, means he is simply a good Test batsman and nowhere near a great one.

  11. 20 overs remain but we can only play until 19:30 BST. England need some dark clouds to roll in.

  12. Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    It's officially 20.

  13. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    I'm starting to get nervous about how many overs are left in the day.

  14. Eng 180-4

    Roy 12, Stokes 0

    Edged... short of slip. Stokes survives.

    It's a horrible, horrible watch for England fans again. This feels like the scenario Stokes came to the crease at Headingley in the second innings. He just has to get through to the close.

  15. Ben Stokes on strike for the first time...

  16. Eng 180-4

    Oh that was so out. They've just shown the ball tracking. Root's face was etched with despair.

    Back live and Jason Roy hits another good shot, cutting Lyon to the boundary.

  17. What's that saying about one wicket bringing two?

  18. Jack Skelton
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    That definitely sounds like the biggest cheer of the day to greet Ben Stokes to the crease.

  19. There are people on their feet as Ben Stokes strides out. England need him again. They are still 322 behind.

  20. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    Root was caught on the crease - a beautiful bit of bowling. You have to give so much credit to the Australian bowlers this afternoon. They charged in unrewarded and they're starting to get the fruits of their labour.