Summary

  • England close on 31-4 after Australia take 82-run lead

  • Starc takes two wickets in two balls & Boland removes Hameed & Leach

  • England's bowlers fight back on second day

  • Anderson stars with four wickets; Harris top-scores with 76

  • Daily highlights show on BBC iPlayer from 17:00 GMT

  1. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 84.2 overs

    Cummins c Hameed b Anderson 21 (Aus 253-9)

    Not quite how England would have envisaged removing the Aussie skipper with the new ball but they will take it.

    A leading edge from Pat Cummins and the ball spoons up Haseeb Hameed who take a comfortable catch at point.

    Four wickets for James Anderson.

  2. Postpublished at 06:02 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    Isa Guha
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    This partnership is really hurting England now.

  3. Postpublished at 06:02 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    Geoff Lemon
    Australian journalist on Test Match Special

    RobinsonImage source, Getty Images

    This is extremely bad news for England. He has been England's most impressive bowler in the three Tests.

  4. Aus 245-8published at 83.2 overs

    Was Ollie Robinson injured trying to take that catch? He is clutching his hamstring and is unable to finish the over.

    He limps off the field and Ben Stokes will bowl the next four balls.

  5. dropped catch

    Dropped catchpublished at 05:58 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    Another tough chance goes down as Ollie Robinson spills a caught-and-bowled chance.

    Mitchell Starc whacks it back at him and Robinson holds his hands up to almost protect his face but he got hands to it.

    The England man ends up on his back on the deck.

    RobinsonImage source, Getty Images
  6. Postpublished at 05:56 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    Geoff Lemon
    Australian journalist on Test Match Special

    Bowling at the tail, you need to keep your nerve and not chase the wickets.

  7. Aus 245-8published at 83.0 overs

    Lead by 60 runs

    Australia skipper Pat Cummins plays and misses to an over nibbling awkward lengths from James Anderson.

    Ollie Robinson preparing to replace Mark Wood at the other end.

  8. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 05:53 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    #bbccricket

    AndersonImage source, Getty Images

    Bairdy: Anderson a fingertip away from a Worldie, there. Magnificent effort.

  9. Postpublished at 05:51 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It would've been a good catch by Jimmy Anderson. Pat Cummins got a good piece of that.

  10. dropped catch

    Dropped catchpublished at 81.4 overs

    Pat Cummins can bat. Mark Wood arrows one at the stumps but the Aussie skipper times it beautifully to strike it down the ground for four.

    A few balls later and James Anderson almost pulls off the catch of the series, diving full length one-handed at mid-on to a whack from Cummins, but he spills it.

  11. Postpublished at 05:47 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    CumminsImage source, Getty Images

    Tha opening batters can burn up a lot of mental energy trying to prepare themselves for their turn to bat.

  12. Postpublished at 05:46 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    Geoff Lemon
    Australian journalist on Test Match Special

    A lead of 53 sounds OK, but a lead of 103 is crushing if you're the bowling side.

  13. Aus 238-8published at 80.2 overs

    Lead by 53 runs

    Australia nudge a couple of singles off James Anderson's first two deliveries with the new ball.

    England all-time leading wicket-taker just finding his rhythm here having bowled mightily impressively earlier

  14. Postpublished at 05:43 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    If you'd have told England's bowlers Australia would be 50 odd ahead with eight wickets down, they'd have taken this.

  15. new ball

    New ballpublished at 80.0

    Mark Wood bowls the final over with the old ball giving James Anderson a fresh cherry to target Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc with.

    Australia 236-5 with a lead of 51 runs.

    England will want to wrap up this quickly.

  16. Aus 229-9published at 78.1 overs

    Lead by 44 runs

    Ben Stokes has swapped ends and replaces Jack Leach. Perhaps Joe Root feared Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc would use their reach to punish the England spinner?

    Stokes begins with a short ball to Starc which the left-hander gets on top off and pulls through mid-wicket but there's a sweeper out there to cut off the boundary.

  17. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 05:33 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    #bbccricket

    Steve: England doing that rare but slightly annoying thing of actually giving us a little bit of hope.

  18. Postpublished at 05:32 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    Here's Jack Leach's dismissal of Cameron Green. It was a good set-up building up to the delivery by the Somerset left-arm spinner.

  19. Postpublished at 05:31 Greenwich Mean Time 27 December 2021

    Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    The ball is 75 plus overs old but it's still kicking and bouncing off a length.

  20. Aus 227-8published at 77.2 overs

    Lead by 42 runs

    Mark Wood into the attack now, as Joe Root rotates his bowlers again.

    Pat Cummins is light on his feet, hitting a drive through the covers for a single while on the move.

    These two look busy for Australia. Every run vital now.