Summary

  • Bairstow, who was hit on finger by Cummins, impresses with brilliant century

  • Stokes, in visible pain with side injury, hits 66 off 91 balls

  • Stokes dropped on 9 & survives ball hitting stumps but not dislodging bails on 16

  • England lose three wickets for no runs in 70 balls either side of lunch

  • Malan caught at leg slip & Root slashes to slip

  • Both England openers out cheaply after being bowled through the gate

  • Daily highlights on BBC iPlayer from 17:00 GMT

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews and Amy Lofthouse

  1. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    This is the Stokes that everyone wants to see.

  2. Eng 83-4

    Back-to-back boundaries for Ben Stokes, as this time he drives Starc through mid-on and away for four.

  3. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    That is lovely timing from Ben Stokes. He is getting in.

  4. Eng 79-4

    Shot!

    Ben Stokes clips a full delivery from Mitchell Starc handsomely off his pads for four.

  5. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    CumminsGetty Images

    Pat Cummins - the number one-ranked bowler in the world - hasn't taken any of the last 21 England wickets.

    At least England have kept him quiet...

  6. Eng 75-4

    England still trail by 341 runs, but this partnership is a considerable improvement on anything that has come before it.

  7. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Cameron Green has bowled fantastically. England just can't work out how to play him.

  8. Eng 75-4

    Ben Stokes almos prods at a snorter of a short ball from Cameron Green after the drinks break, before he nudges a leisurely couple of runs through third.

  9. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It feels quite hostile out there, doesn't it? It is hard work.

  10. It is a testatement to Ben Stokes' commitment and sheer bloody mindedness that he is still out there.

    He is in agony.

  11. Alex Hartley
    England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    You talking about England riding their luck, but they haven't had much luck throughout the series so maybe it is all coming at once.

    That is an hour that England might have won for the first time.

  12. Drinks break

    England have also been quite unlucky at certain points on this tour.

    Is the tide finally changing?

  13. Geoff Lemon
    Australian journalist on Test Match Special

    The score might be 72-4 but England have been quite lucky today. There have been three dropped catches and the ball hitting the off stump but not dislodging the bail.

  14. Eng 72-4

    An inside edge from Jonny Bairstow, trying to cut, and the ball skids past the stumps and trickles away for runs.

  15. Geoff Lemon
    Australian journalist on Test Match Special

    StokesGetty Images

    It is tough work for England's batters today.

  16. Eng 70-4

    Ben Stokes, somehow, survives.

  17. Geoff Lemon
    Australian journalist on Test Match Special

    Ben Stokes really is in the wars.

  18. ouch!

    Eng 70-4

    And now Stokes gets smacked on the bottom hand!

    A rising delivery from Green and Stokes' bat comes flying out of his hand.

  19. ouch!

    Eng 69-4

    Are Australia trying to make sure every bit of Ben Stokes' body hurts?

    Cameron Green whams a fuller ball in and Stokes inside edges it onto his knee, the momentum making him lose his footing and end up face first on the floor.

  20. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    StokesGetty Images

    It took England 28.4 overs to reach 50.

    The ball-by-ball data I have access to on CricViz goes back to 2006 and that is the longest it has taken them to reach 50 in the first innings of a Test match in that time, in 199 innings.