Summary

  • Buttler unbeaten with 64 at the close

  • England slump from 130-2 to 226-8

  • Root - dropped three times - is bowled by Cummins for 57 to bring about collapse

  • Four wickets for Marsh and two each for Cummins and Hazlewood

  • Australia - 2-1 up in series - have already retained Ashes

  • Australia won toss; 5th Test, day one, The Oval

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Jack Skelton

  1. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    Jos Buttler has gone full one-day mode.

    Jos ButtlerReuters
  2. 6 runs

    Eng 241-8

    This one is even bigger! It's classic Buttler from white-ball cricket. It's pitched up and he slams it with fast hands into the stands.

  3. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    He has slammed that for six.

  4. 6 runs

    Eng 235-9

    A flashback to happier times! Jos Buttler goes back into ODI mode and smacks Josh Hazlewood over his head for six.

  5. Eng 229-9

    Buttler 30, Leach 2

    What exactly do England expect when they only have three players in their team whose job it is, day in day out, to bat?

    Leach is off the mark with a couple and punches gloves with his good mate Buttler at the end of the over.

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

    I really feel for Jos Buttler here. It's a familiar position he finds himself in, having to play more aggressively to get England up to any sort of score with the tail. And it often leads to him basically sacrificing his wicket for a lower score than he should have got.

    Jos ButtlerAFP

  7. Eng 227-8

    Yes. Yes he will have a swing.

    Buttler doesn't middle this and only gets a single.

  8. Eng 226-8

    For the second first innings in a row, Jos Buttler is left with the tail. Does he have a swing?

  9. He's been way too good for this England team.

  10. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    That is 20 wickets in the series now for Josh Hazlewood at 17.8.

  11. Jack Leach has kept his place above Stuart Broad in the batting order! Australia look like a team who knows they'll be batting tonight. Only bad light will prevent it.

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

    The Aussies have made so many mistakes. It's not a bowling day.

    But England have made even more. They've managed to scrape to only 226-8.

    There will be talk that England are mentally frazzled but this is what they do against teams that bowl well enough. They are not a team that is able to get 400-450. If they bat well, they maybe get 350.

  13. wicket

    WICKET

    Archer c Paine b Hazlewood 9 (Eng 226-8)

    This one is out.

    Josh Hazlewood joins Mitchell Marsh's party. It's full and with a bit of nibble the ball takes a regulation edge off Jofra Archer's bat.

  14. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Well that will go down well with the crowd. Ah, it didn't quite carry in fairness to Warner.

  15. Eng 225-7

    Another edge. Four more! Buttler again is the fortunate batsman. The ball took a good edge but just bounced short of David Warner at first slip. It's an awkward bounce for the fielder and he can't prevent the boundary.

  16. Eng 221-7

    England can't say they've been unfortunate today. Joe Root was dropped three times and now Jos Buttler gets an edge for four through the slips.

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    James Carnegie: Tell me, ARE there actually any better English batters than this lot out there to replace them with, or are we sort of stuck with this bunch of lemmings?

  18. Eng 212-7

    In the last Ashes series Marsh scored 181 against them at Perth. Now he's doing it with the ball.

    Mitchell MarshReuters

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    Richard Lindsay: England do a fantastic job of making Mitch Marsh look like a quality Test player.

  20. Eng 217-7

    Jofra Archer has just done a Steve Smith leave.