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. I mean, if this is out, I'll eat my hat...

  2. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    They've burnt one. You'd think they'd have learned that in the last Test.

  3. Australia review

    Pat Cummins likes this. He's smashed Joe Root on the back pad, and Tim Paine, at the last second, sends it upstairs.

    "They've burnt a review..." mutters Glenn McGrath.

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  5. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    That was the chance the Australians needed to take. Keeper and slip stand really wide. That was keeper's catch.

  6. Eng 147-2

    Trail by 350

    A well-timed sweep from Rory Burns adds four runs to the total, while Nathan Lyon ruefully chomps down on his chewing gum.

    A beach ball has flown on to the field. Lyon is getting jeered every time he moves. The sun's out. The Ashes is great.

  7. Get Involved

    Text 81111

    My mate works in a helium inflatables factory. He speaks highly of everyone.

    Paul, Edinburgh

  8. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    I think you want both blokes going for it rather than none.

  9. Eng 143-2

    I reckon Tim Paine could have got to that edge if he dived, you know. Bizarre that neither keeper or slip made a move for it.

  10. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Cummins has deserved more than he has got.

    Pat CumminsReuters

  11. Eng 143-2

    Four! A cracking shot from Joe Root, leaning into a drive and forcing the ball through point and to the boundary, where Marcus Harris almost face-plants into the rope as he tries to drag the ball back in.

    Oh, that's a genuine edge - and it'll be four! It's absolutely flown off Root's outside edge and it's gone between Tim Paine and David Warner, neither of who moved a muscle! Warner's smiling, Cummins looks like he wants to kick something.

  12. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Root's fifty came off 117 balls, with seven fours. He has scored 574 runs at an average of 114.8 in eight Test innings at Old Trafford.

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    Are we sure Steve Smith isn't inflatable? His batting takes my breath away. (I am sorry.)

    Steve

    My daughter wanted a bouncy castle for her birthday. The guy said the rental was £50 and the set-up fee was $1000. I said, “That’s outrageous!” He just shrugged and said, “That’s inflation for you.”

    Simon T, London

  14. Jack Skelton
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    If someone sneezes near Nathan Lyon this week, he'd be well advised to catch the cold.

  15. Eng 135-2

    Root 50, Burns 69

    Nathan Lyon has had better days.

    Nathan LyonReuters

  16. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    A very, very modest acknowledgement from Root, who's looking very stern-faced. He knows he's got a lot of work to do.

  17. 50 runs

    50 for Root

    Cries of 'Roooot' ring out across Old Trafford as the England captain works a single to reach his half-century.

    He acknowledges it with a quiet wave of the bat. He's not done yet.

    Joe RootReuters

  18. Eng 134-2

    Too short again from Nathan Lyon, who is not having a happy day, and he is firmly, crisply, cut away for one by Rory Burns.

  19. Are you ready for some more of this?

  20. Eng 133-2

    Another stonker from Pat Cummins zips past Joe Root's outside edge as he pushes forward in defence.