Summary

  • England close on 82-4, needing nominal 468 to win

  • Root caught behind off Starc for 24 in final over

  • Hameed, Malan and Burns all fall

  • Australia move from 45-1 to 230-9dec

  • Test Match Special not at ground, commentary provided by ABC

  • Daily highlights programme on BBC iPlayer at 18:00 GMT

Live Reporting

Tim Oscroft and Matthew Henry

  1. Eng 82-3

    Root 24, Stokes 3

    Ben Stokes blocks away and leaves his skipper to negotiate the last over of the day from round-the-wicket Mitchell Starc.

  2. Eng 82-3

    Two overs to go, Nathan Lyon with the first of them. I think Joe Root will be refusing any quick singles.

  3. Eng 82-3

    Root 24, Stokes 3

    That's a great response from Root, who clips two off his legs and then cover drives for two more. He's running a bit gingerly, to be fair.

  4. Eng 78-3

    Root 20, Stokes 3

    The England captain is OK to continue, seeing the next delivery whistle past his off stump. Lots of smiles between batter and bowler, who gets a bat-pad in.

  5. ouch!

    Eng 78-3

    Lots of replays on screen, it's hard to watch...

  6. Mitchell Johnson
    Ex-Australia bowler on ABC

    That's the ball you want to bowl to him. It will make him uncomfortable. He's going to be pretty nervous for the next few balls he faces.

  7. ouch!

    Eng 78-3

    Root takes a long drink as he gathers himself - don't forget, he was off the field earlier after a blow to the abdomen before play.

    There's a few smiles from Stokes and Lyon, who'll be glad it's not them...

  8. ouch!

    Mitchell Starc goes around the wicket and strikes Joe Root in the most painful place imaginable. Root rolls away in agony.

  9. Eng 78-3

    Root 20, Stokes 3

    Ben Stokes has four men around the bat as Nathan Lyon sends down another fine over, getting the all rounder to play and miss at one.

  10. Eng 77-3

    Root 19, Stokes 2

    What was I saying about the Australian keeper? Mitchell Starc cuts Ben Stokes in half with one that nips back over the wickets, and Alex Carey fumbles it. That's the first mistake he's made in a while.

    Stokes has been in a grimly determined mood, and he has four overs today to get through.

  11. Eng 77-3

    Root 19, Stokes 3

    Joe Root shoulders arms, walks across his stumps and sees the a sharply-turning ball from Nathan Lyon flick off his pads down the leg side. Steve Smith says "Howzat?" speculatively but no more than that.

  12. Eng 76-3

    Lovely stuff from Alex Carey as he takes one that turns and bounces past Joe Root's hip down the leg side. He looks to have taken to Test cricket like a duck to water, in front of and behind the stumps.

  13. Eng 75-3

    Root 18, Stokes 1

    Still, I think that's a cut above just adding 'y' to the end of a surname.

    Anyway, Stokesy negotiates that Mitchell Starc over nicely.

  14. Eng 75-3

    Root 18, Stokes 1

    Gaz? Just in case you didn't know, Nathan Lyon is nicknamed 'Garry' in honour of Aussie rules football legend Garry Lyon. And that's about all I know about AFL...

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    Chris R: Root and Stokes to bat through the next two and a half sessions, heard it here first. We'll still collapse and lose, mind.

  16. Eng 75-3

    Root 18, Stokes 2

    "Bowled Gaz! So good this, Gazza!" go the shouts from the close fielders as Nathan Lyon tests and teases Ben Stokes out of the rough.

  17. Eng 74-3

    Root 18, Stokes 1

    Mitchell Starc is right on the money with his first over, a maiden that makes Joe Root think throughout. It's a double change, as Nathan Lyon replaces Jhye Richardson at the other end.

  18. Eng 74-3

    Root 18, Stokes 1

    Mitchell Starc is back after an impressive five overs from Cameron Green.

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    Can't argue with that, TBH...

  20. Rory Burns battled away until this...