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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Live Reporting

Ffion Wynne and Matthew Henry

  1. Any better suggestions? The next session will get under way in five minutes.

    A reminder for anyone just joining us, England did NOT lose a wicket in the first session.

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    John Shaw: Collective name for a group of England wickets ? …it’s got to be a “Frittering”.

  3. Better...

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

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    Harry Boon: An avalanche? A tsunami? Feels like the term should embrace the emotional torment as well as the physical fact.

  5. Three exclamation marks... Chris really does believe.

    Is that hope I can feel nudging me in the ribs? We never learn. It'll kill you eventually.

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    Well done to Malan and Root. If one of them but ideally both can go on to get a big hundred then maybe that will inspire the rest of the middle order and we can match or even pass the Aussie score. What confidence that would then give us going forward. I still believe!!!

    Chris, Hants

  7. These are the sort of wagon wheels we were hoping for from this first session

    Joe Root run map 1st session
    Malan's run map 1st session

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

    Root and Malan are doing it again. It is just what England needed otherwise this Test and the series were probably gone. They are keeping it alive. It will give the dressing room a lot of confidence.

  9. What should a group of England wickets be called by the way? A load isn't good enough. A herd? A litter?

  10. For once I don't have a load of England wickets to show you during the interval.

    Instead here's Joe Root doing what he does best...

  11. Thanks Ffion. No pressure, ey?

  12. Some of you may have thought I wasn't getting particularly excited by England's success in that session.

    Now they've made it through to lunch unscathed, I can safely say that Root and Malan were absolutely class. I just didn't want to jinx it too soon after I live texted David Warner out on day one.

    If it all goes wrong after lunch, you'll have Matthew Henry to blame instead. Bye for now!

  13. What has happened this morning?

    Waking up nice and early on a Saturday morning in England? Well I have good news...

    Joe Root and Dawid Malan are once again holding England's batting together.

    After England resumed on 17-2, no wickets have fallen in the first session with Root and Malan sharing their second hundred partnership of the series.

    Root has moved up fourth in the list for most runs in a calendar year in perfect batting conditions.

    Australia are perhaps missing the bowling of their captain Pat Cummins and fellow star bowler Josh Hazlewood with runs come relatively easily.

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

    This is a much healthier situation than it might have been.

  15. Lunch - Eng 140-2

    Jhye Richardson goes up for an lbw on Root as he gets one to nip back in. Steve Smith gestures to say it's going down leg and Root nods in agreement.

    Malan defends the last ball solidly and they march off for lunch.

    Not sure that could've gone much better for England.

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

    Australia are starting to feel the loss of Hazlewood and Cummins.

  17. Eng 139-2

    Not much threat from Cameron Green so far as Root and Malan nudge and nurdle for five runs off the over.

    Should be one more over until the lunch break.

  18. Most Test runs in a calendar year

    1. Mohammad Yousuf (Pak, 2006) - 1,788
    2. Viv Richards (WI, 1976) - 1,710
    3. Graeme Smith (SA, 2008) - 1,656
    4. Joe Root (Eng, 2021) - 1,597*
    5. Michael Clarke (Aus, 2012) - 1,595

  19. Eng 134-2

    Running out of words to describe Root's batting, to be honest. He's just really good, isn't he?

    He's now moved up to fourth in the list of most Test runs in a calendar year, this time leaving Michael Clarke behind.

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

    The chant of "Rooooot" has echoed around cricket grounds a lot this year.