Summary

  • Lightning stops play and ends day two early

  • Burns & Hameed fall to Starc & Neser respectively

  • Australia 473-9d: Labuschagne 103, Smith 93, Carey 51

  • Labuschagne completes maiden Ashes century

  • Second Test, Adelaide - day-night match, England trail 1-0

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Live Reporting

Ffion Wynne

  1. Aus 466-8

    Hang on, have we gone back two months? Feel like I'm watching the T20 World Cup all over again.

    Jhye Richardson slogs at his first ball and it goes high in the air but plugs in the outfield for a couple.

  2. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    This is only the fourth time Ben Stokes has conceded more than 100 runs in a Test innings.

  3. Aus 463-8

    Starc 38, Richardson 0

    The Adelaide crowd are absolutely loving this. Literally nothing is going right for England.

  4. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on BBC Test Match Special

    Stokes looks like he might combust at any moment.

  5. Aus 461-8

    Edge, over Buttler's head, four.

    Not sure if he got a glove to it but Ben Stokes looks like he is going to explode.

  6. Aus 457-8

    Consecutive boundaries from Mitchell Starc just adding more misery.

    The second is nailed past Stokes' head and the umpire has to take evasive action, too.

    He bowls an angry bouncer to follow ... and it's called a wide. Harsh. Brutal.

  7. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on BBC Test Match Special

    That was up for a long time. He took it well, even though he's saying he didn't see it.

  8. wicket

    WICKET

    Neser c Broad b Stokes 35 (Aus 448-8)

    Stuart Broad holds on this time, taking a smart tumbling catch as Neser slogs one high in the air.

    A very useful 35 from Michael Neser, and a valuable lower order partnership for Australia.

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    Ben: Why did we ever think Woakes was going to be any sort of threat in Australia?! Looks like the most placid and easiest bowler to face in the world on these pitches. England’s ‘planning ahead’ just continues to fail time after time - 2 years in the making this apparently.

  10. dropped catch

    Starc dropped on 22

    Aus 448-7

    Oh, it's harsh but definitely a drop.

    Ollie Pope on the midwicket boundary puts in a very good effort. He gets two hands to it just an inch or two off the ground but it's another chance gone begging.

    Starting to feel quite bad for England now. It's been a brutal two days.

  11. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on BBC Test Match Special

    Australia are picking off a weary England. It's been a roasting hot day. Root might be looking for volunteers to bowl.

  12. Aus 446-7

    Woakes drops short and wide, Starc smashes it for four.

    It's followed by a wide.

    Something about the wheels coming off?

  13. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on BBC Test Match Special

    Technically it is a catch, but he's protecting those fingers after the operation.

  14. Aus 439-7

    Oh it's all falling apart.

    Stokes bowls a full toss that Starc smashes back at him and clips him on the finger - very harsh to call that a drop.

    But the next ball is smashed for four through midwicket. Ben Stokes looks a very angry man.

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    Harry W: I'm not sure I'm ready to watch England bat this morning tbh.

  16. Aus 433-7

    16 from Woakes' over. He's not offered England much at all in this Test.

    I miss Mark Wood.

  17. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on BBC Test Match Special

    That's a terrific shot! He's thrashed it over point for six!

  18. 6 runs

    Aus 432-7

    What a remarkable shot on Test debut! Neser takes a step back and crunches it over point for six!

  19. Aus 426-7

    Here we go then. Neser slogs Woakes over midwicket for four more.

  20. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    I wonder if losing their last review will cost England like it did Australia at Headingley in 2019? Haha.