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. In comes the short leg...

  2. Isa Guha
    Ex-England women's bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Pat Cummins has been like a trojan. Or, to give it another term, a robot - he just keeps coming at England at the same pace and intensity.

  3. Eng 179-5

    Pat Cummins gets his first look at Sam Curran. Not sure he's too impressed with the way the Englishman hopped out of the way of this bouncer.

    Cummins grins and has a word or two.

  4. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    England are in a precarious position now.

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    England have taken the old adage of add two wickets to the score and raised it to add five.

    Goose

    Mitch MarshPA Media

  6. Eng 179-5

    Buttler 8, S Curran 1

    This is the first time Curran has batted this high in a Test. He saved England on a number of occasions last summer and now needs a big score to do the same in this match.

    The left-hander is off the mark on his first ball.

  7. This would be a good time for Sam Curran to score his first first-class hundred...

  8. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Curran needs to be wary of the inswinging yorker first ball.

  9. Bairstow had been tied down since tea. Mitchell Marsh has bowled really well.

    Sam Curran gets a big ovation on his home ground.

  10. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    The Duke's ball has been the player of the series. it's just never out of the game.

  11. wicket

    WICKET

    Bairstow lbw b M Marsh 22 (Eng 176-5)

    It was only the ball-tracking that could have saved Bairstow and it shows the ball would have clattered into leg stump.

    Bairstow has to go.

    England are in trouble. Again.

  12. It has definitely hit the pad first.

  13. England review

    Bairstow given out lbw!

    It was a great yorker. Was it boot first? Was it swinging down leg?

  14. Sir Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    Batting at number six is a proper position for Jos Buttler. You can't just hide him away with the tail to bash the ball about.

  15. There are worse ways to score your first boundary...

  16. Amy Lofthouse
    BBC Sport at The Oval

    Steve Smith is shadow-batting Jonny Bairstow's drives from second slip. Does he ever stop?!

  17. Eng 175-4

    Bairstow 22, Buttler 5

    After 30 minutes of patient defence, Jonny Bairstow can't help but have a swish. Fortunately for England he doesn't nick this behind. It's another fine over from Pat Cummins.

  18. Sir Geoffrey Boycott
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    After seeing him this series, Pat Cummins is without doubt the best in the world. What a bowler he is. He just keeps coming too. He's so strong. It's a privilege to watch him.

    Pat CumminsAFP

  19. Eng 175-4

    Tim Paine is wringing his hand out after dropping another one behind the stumps. He's not having the best of days.

    There's a fella doing some strange dancing on the top of a house nearby. I'm not sure he knows he's on the TV.

  20. The end of Joe Root...