Summary

  • Australia close day three on 45-1, leading by 282

  • England slump from 150-2 to 236 all out

  • Australia opt not to enforce follow-on

  • Malan (80) & Root (62) play well but their wickets lead to yet another collapse

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

    It's amazing how much a wicket changes things. Ben Stokes would've been watching from the sides thinking the ball was doing absolutely nothing.

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

    Now that was proper spin.

  3. Eng 150-3

    Isn't it funny what a wicket does? Well not funny. It's really not funny, but you know what I mean. For what feels like the first time today Nathan Lyon finds real turn, an edge by Malan dropping just short of slip.

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    Fran Adam: I’m sorry Joe Root is great but he needs to learn to leave the ball. Maybe in England when the bounce is lower and you can play with soft hands you know it’s lower risk but in Australia you can’t play like that. I guess that’s why he hasn’t made a 100.

  5. Eng 150-3

    Malan 73, Stokes 0

    90mph from Cameron Green first up to Ben Stokes. Stokes is late on it. Green may not know how to defend his off stump at the moment but he can bowl.

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

    Again it's that bounce. Root didn't know whether he could go back or forward, and it just kicks a bit off the surface.

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

    That's rather come from nowhere, but Green has been probing away at that full length. That's the second time he's got Joe Root out in the series.

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    Root c Smith b Green 62 (Eng 150-3)

    Who switched on? Cameron Green beat Joe Root once in the last over, did it again in this and then finally finds the edge. It flies comfortably to Steve Smith at second slip.

    Should Root have left it? Probably. He thumps his bat on the way off.

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

    Green has looked the most threatening of the Australia bowlers so far. It's the extra bounce he gets from being so tall.

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

    England made a lot of mistakes in the first two days. But they haven't had the rub of the green either. Going off for those 45 minutes last night was one thing that did go their way, though.

  11. Eng 150-2

    It's sleepy in the beating sun in Adelaide. The atmosphere is nothing like that of last night when the crowd were roaring Starc and co in under the lights.

  12. What to call a group of England wickets...

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    A 'tradition' of English wickets.

    Will, Milton Keynes.

  13. Eng 150-2

    Malan 73, Root 62

    Wooooft. Root is well and truly beaten by a ball that zips from Cameron Green. That surprised Root too with the England skipper quickly withdrawing his gloves from the line of the ball.

    We haven't seen too much of that this morning.

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

    England have done well to get on top of Nathan Lyon. That doesn't mean going after him every ball, but just making sure he knows that he can't just settle in and bowl at them.

  15. Eng 148-2

    We're now into the kind of negative responses I expected.

    Nathan Lyon, having swapped ends, almost makes an immediate impact as Malan skews a drive - the Aussies yelping in anticipation as it flies through the air.

    Much more secure a few balls later from England's left-hander. Malan cuts for four to move into the seventies.

  16. What to call a group of England wickets

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    Kevin Stevens: A calamity of wickets.

    Matt Jones: Surely with how it makes you feel, it should a "murder" of English wickets.

    Sonney: A cascade of wickets?

  17. Eng 144-2

    Malan 68, Root 61

    England have their first runs of the session but they come in slightly edgy fashion off their skipper's bat. Joe Root will tell you he played that. I'm not so sure.

  18. Eng 140-2

    Not so far today, Mark.

    Cameron Green will begin the early evening session. The nearest cloud is still at least 30 miles away.

  19. What to call a group of England wickets...

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    I would imagine that a group of England wickets is "an expectation" these days.

    Mark, Warrington

  20. The Aussies are lining up on the boundary edge. Whisper is quietly but are they missing Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood?

    Any team in history would, I guess.