Summary

  • Buttler hits 77 off 54 balls to steer England to series win

  • Finch (40) & Stoinis (35) top score in Australia's stuttering 157-7

  • Australia fall to 30-3 after winning toss

  • Archer & Wood impress in fiery opening spell

  • Watch on BBC One and at the top of this page

  1. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 2.5 overs

    Bairstow hit wicket 9 (Eng 19-1)

    A hit wicket!

    Ah, the rarest and yet most fun of all the dismissals. Jonny Bairstow is forced onto the back foot by Mitch Starc, trying to pull a short ball, and ends up shovelling the bat onto the top of his stumps. Never a good look.

  2. Postpublished at 16:22 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC One

    There's a lot of high-quality fast bowlers around in all sides these days; the quicks have had a resurgence.

  3. Eng 19-0published at 2.4 overs

    Bairstow has an ugly swipe at the next delivery, before he bunts a 90mph full toss away from his stumps.

  4. Postpublished at 16:21 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England women's batter on BBC One

    Jonny's starting to see it now, and his timing has improved.

  5. Eng 19-0published at 2.2 overs

    Four more!

    That's much better from Jonny Bairstow, standing tall and with a jab of the bat, smacking the ball back past Starc and down the ground into the ropes.

  6. Eng 15-0published at 2.1 overs

    Four! Not quite timed from Jonny Bairstow but he gets enough oomph behind this Mitchell Starc delivery to bunt it over the top.

  7. Postpublished at 16:19 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC One

    Cor! That's a brilliant shot.

  8. Eng 11-0published at 2 overs

    Target 158

    I'll forgive Jos Buttler that moment of doziness as he sends the most glorious back foot punch racing away for four. Stunning.

    Cummins' response is an absolute toe crusher of a yorker than knocks Buttler clean off his feet. Ouch.

  9. Postpublished at 16:17 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    Alison Mitchell
    BBC Test Match Special

    If Buttler had been mid-step, he would have been in trouble. It'll be a wake-up call.

  10. Not outpublished at 16:17 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    Remember, kids: always run your bat in.

  11. Postpublished at 16:17 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    Well, Jos Buttler hasn't run his bat in! Where's the dive, Jos?!

    Thankfully, his foot is down...

  12. Postpublished at 16:17 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC One

    Jos Buttler was cruising there, he didn't run in his bat and Glenn Maxwell thinks he might have got him.

  13. Umpire reviewpublished at 16:16 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    Jos Buttler cruises through for a single, and Glenn Maxwell throws the stumps down.

    Maxwell likes it. No-one else does. Upstairs it goes.

  14. Eng 6-0published at 1.3 overs

    Oh! An outside edge from Jos Buttler, just fiddling outside off stump, but the ball drops well short of Aaron Finch at slip.

    Buttler promptly gives himself a room and cracks a short ball away, but it's just for a single.

  15. Postpublished at 16:15 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC One

    Buttler will play his natural way - have a peek for a couple, then see ball, hit ball.

  16. Postpublished at 16:14 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    And here's Pat Cummins...

  17. Postpublished at 16:14 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    Because everyone loves to see a dog at the cricket...

    DogImage source, Reuters
  18. Eng 5-0published at 1 over

    Target 158

    Mitch Starc generously spears four wides down the leg side to give England a little boost. He's nice like that.

  19. Postpublished at 16:13 British Summer Time 6 September 2020

    Alison Mitchell
    BBC Test Match Special

    I wonder if Jonny Baristow is feeling the pressure from how well Dawid Malan and Tom Banton have done, and with Jason Roy to come back in. He needs to continue scoring a weight of runs to stay in the team.

  20. Eng 1-0published at 0.4 overs

    Mitch Starc has got a David Beckham-era headband in. Although considering his hair doesn't look any longer than usual, it feels a little futile.

    This is classic Starc, stump to stump, rapping Jonny Bairstow on the pads, and Bairstow is unable to get off the mark.