Summary

  • Australia reach target of 20 for loss of one wicket

  • England lose eight wickets for 74 runs in morning session

  • Lyon removes Malan for 400th Test wicket

  • Root caught behind off Green, adding just three to overnight score

  • Hobart to host fifth Ashes Test after it is taken off Perth

  • Daily highlights programme on BBC iPlayer from 17:00

Live Reporting

Timothy Abraham and Matthew Henry

  1. How's stat?!

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  2. Eng 240-5

    Cameron Green has got this old ball reverse swinging. He hadn't taken a wicket in Tests before this match. After playing a hideous reverse sweep earlier, Ben Stokes now looks like he has his spade out. Dig in.

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    Lesley Keech: I think we're so flat, we make the Netherlands look like the Himalayas.

  4. Eng 239-5

    Trail by 39

    Australia aren't taking the new ball for now at least.

    Here's the moment disaster stuck...

  5. Eng 238-5

    This is the last over before the new ball. Jos Buttler nails a reverse sweep for four.

    Somewhere in Yorkshire a Mr Boycott has just spat out his evening tipple.

  6. Eng 234-5

    Stokes 5, Buttler 0

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    Can any team provide mood swings like England?

    The nation is currently as flat as the Netherlands.

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    Andy Zaltzman
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Pope averages only 14 in the second innings of Test matches, with a highest score of 28.

  8. Eng 234-5

    Eight overs. 14 runs. Three wickets.

    It's at this point I'd turn the PlayStation off and start again.

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

    What a morning this is for Australia. It's the bounce. Pope punches it to slip. Oh dear.

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    WICKET

    Pope c Smith b Lyon 4 (Eng 234-5)

    All that good work yesterday...

    Ollie Pope lasts just six balls. He tries to force a back-foot shot to a ball that spins from Lyon. All he can do is gift the easiest slip catch Steve Smith will ever take.

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    Mark Poole: It’s always the hope that gets you. Always. You spend the whole day having great thoughts of watching England bat for an hour tonight and scoring 100’s and waking up with us still batting. Then to have that dream destroyed so abruptly…

  12. Eng 233-4

    Trail by 49

    In half an hour's play Australia have removed both batters who were unbeaten in the eighties. I can almost hear the late-night hope draining out of a nation.

    New man Ollie Pope flicks a boundary down to fine leg.

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

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    What a difference a day makes. It's a decent delivery, but could he have left it. Well, played Joe Root, but he goes without that hundred in Australia.

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    BBC Test Match Special

    With that, have England's hopes vanished?

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    WICKET

    Root c Carey b Green 89 (Eng 229-4)

    Ah. Is that the game? Joe Root is out.

    It's not Starc or Cummins or Josh Hazlewood with the wicket. It's young all-rounder Cameron Green. Root lunges forward and gets the thinnest of edges.

    His wait for a hundred in Australia goes on. England's hopes have probably disappeared with their captain.

  16. Eng 229-3

    Trail by 49

    Errrm. Stokes plays a massive slog sweep to his ninth ball. It looked like he was trying to hit that to Sydney. It's not for me to tell Ben Stokes how to bat but I'm not sure about that.

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    Totum: Hope balloon popped.

  18. Eng 228-3

    Root 88, Stokes 4

    Aussie all-rounder Cameron Green is on as Pat Cummins saves the big three for the looming new ball. Stokes' first runs come with a boundary, steered through a gap between slip and gully. I think he meant that.

    Without meaning to state the obvious, this is a humongous partnership.

  19. Eng 223-3

    Trail by 55

    Well if anyone is going to do the impossible...

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  20. Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It's a massive moment in this game, exposing Ben Stokes before the second new ball.