Summary

  • Half-centuries from Root & Malan give England hope

  • Root breaks record for Test runs in a calendar year for an England batsman (1,482)

  • Burns & Hameed both caught behind by Carey

  • Australia, who resumed on 343-7, bowled out for 425 - a lead of 278

  • Head hits 152; three wickets apiece for Wood & Robinson

  • Day four begins at 23:30 GMT

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Callum Matthews

  1. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    Hameed's defensive technique has looked good.

  2. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Hameed needs to look carefully at how Labuschagne played, chewing up deliveries. I like his temperament.

  3. Lunch - Eng 23-0

    Burns and Hameed have got there. England have a long, long (long, long, long, long) way to go but that's at least something.

  4. Eng 23-0

    This is probably the last over before lunch. Burns and Hameed can almost sniff the lunchtime BBQ.

  5. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    This is Rory Burns' 55th innings for England. This is only the third time he hasn't faced the first ball. The other times were when he opened with a nightwatchman.

  6. dropped catch

    Eng 23-0

    Pat Cummins is on. Burns is beaten twice and then fluffs a pull. It almost goes to the giving fielder at mid-wicket. It is the sub Jhye Richardson who may have got a finger on it in fact.

  7. But Burns was so close to notching a pair...

  8. This will have made Rory Burns feel a lot better...

  9. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    England are clinging on by their fingernails.

  10. Lunch is the big target for these two. It's just eight minutes away.

  11. Ian Chappell
    Former Australia captain on Test Match Special

    Hazlewood was definitely trying to hit leg stump.

  12. Eng 18-0

    Hazlewood's head is in his hands as Burns comes down late on a leg-stump yorker. It looked as though it was going to sneak through onto timber around the pad again but Burns gets enough on it to get the ball down to the fine leg boundary.

    I'm not sure Hazlewood rates Burns.

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  14. Eng 14-0

    "To the Eng-er-land four more" is the chant from the stands after another decent shot from Haseeb Hameed. Five overs gone. No wickets. What's going on?

  15. Get Involved

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    Georgie Heath: Half expected Burns to lift his bat after getting off the mark.

  16. Eng 9-0

    Trail by 269

    David Warner is not on the field by the way. The word is he has sore ribs after being hit yesterday (see below).

    Hameed might have defended with body more often than bat so far. You'd have to pay me a lot of money to face this.

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  18. Eng 9-0

    Hameed 4, Burns 5

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    Give Rory Burns his due. This is a lovely stroke - a pull to the fence off a Starc bouncer.

    It was only the third innings in his Test career that he hasn't taken the first ball.

  19. Ian Chappell
    Former Australia captain on Test Match Special

    It's such a different thought process being on one, compared to being on nought.

  20. Eng 4-0

    Rory Burns is off the mark! And breathe...