Summary

  • Crawley (0) reprieved by Starc no-ball

  • Australia declare on 416-8 - play can continue until 07:30 GMT

  • Khawaja, dropped on 28 by Root, makes century on return to team

  • Broad the pick of England bowlers with five wickets

  • Stokes unable to bowl because of side injury sustained bowling short balls

  • Daily highlights on BBC iPlayer from 17:00 GMT

  1. Postpublished at 07:25 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2022

    Oh wait. They are checking the no-ball...

    This is TIGHT.

  2. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 3.4 overs

    Crawley c Warner b Starc 0 (Eng 10-1)

    I'm sorry...

  3. Eng 10-0published at 3.3 overs

    "Pretty bowling" says Simon Mann as Zak Crawley shoulders arms to another wide delivery from Mitchell Starc.

    Just over five minutes are left for England to survive.

  4. Postpublished at 07:23 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2022

    Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    I am confident England will get through this. Mitchell Starc is trying too hard to bowl wicket-taking balls.

  5. Eng 10-0published at 3 overs

    Hands on head from Pat Cummins, but Haseeb Hameed has judged this leave well.

    It does nip back in, but it is well length on length by the England opener.

    Cummins twice strayed down the leg side in that over. He hasn't been on the money. Yet.

  6. Postpublished at 07:21 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2022

    Oh, Simon. That's brave.

  7. Postpublished at 07:21 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2022

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    You feel a team can get on a roll in a situation like this but it doesn't feel like it at the moment. It actually feels a little bit flat compared to Melbourne.

    CumminsImage source, Getty Images
  8. Eng 10-0published at 2.3 overs

    Three more balls safely negotiated.

  9. Postpublished at 07:19 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2022

    Here's how Stuart Broad dismissed Usman Khawaja to pick up his fifth wicket...

  10. Eng 10-0published at 2 overs

    Too wide from Mitchell Starc and Zak Crawley is able to watch that one drift aimlessly by.

    Two overs have been survived. There are probably three or four more for England to get through.

  11. Eng 10-0published at 1.5 overs

    Slightly wayward and down the leg side from Mitchell Starc and it flicks off Zak Crawley's trousers and away for four more.

    Extras are helping England.

  12. Eng 6-0published at 1.2 overs

    Good from Haseeb Hameed as he drop and runs into the covers.

    There are boos around the SCG as Zak Crawley comes down the pitch and has a little prod. Delaying tactics.

  13. Postpublished at 07:15 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2022

    Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    That delivery almost blew off Zak Crawley's back elbow off! That would have been a fantastic save by Alex Carey, tipping it over the bar, if he had been in goal at Vicarage Road on a Saturday.

  14. Postpublished at 07:15 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2022

    Oh.

    Mark Wood is padded up in the England changing room and he's knocking his bat back and forth between his hands.

    It looks like he wants to be sick to be honest.

  15. Eng 5-0published at 1 over

    CumminsImage source, Getty Images

    OH MY! That was climbed a mile!

    Zak Crawley is shouldering arms, but he has to raise them even higher, because the ball is close to taking off his right elbow.

    Alex Carey can only get fingertips on it and England pick up four byes.

  16. Eng 1-0published at 0.5 overs

    A strangled appeal from Australia as Zak Crawley leaves one that is straight, but it hits him on the thigh pad and doesn't glance off anything on the way through to the slips.

  17. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 07:12 Greenwich Mean Time 6 January 2022

    #bbccricket

    Nick Henderson: England will be at least one down in this 20 minutes of play. Absolutely guaranteed. Probably two in fact.

  18. Eng 1-0published at 0.4 overs

    Better from Pat Cummins, zoning in on the stumps of Zak Crawley but the England opener is solid in defence.

  19. Eng 1-0published at 0.3 overs

    Too wide from Pat Cummins and Zak Crawley is able to watch it go by.

  20. Eng 1-0published at 0.2 overs

    Haseeb Hameed is up and running with a nudge into mid-wicket for a single.

    Over to you Zak Crawley.