Summary

  • Head hits 112-ball hundred for Australia to swing momentum, having come in at 12-3

  • Chips Woakes to mid-on a ball after reaching ton, put on 121 with Green (74)

  • England bowlers struggle after good start. Four wickets in first session

  • Robinson removes Warner and Smith for ducks but now has back issue

  • Broad comically bowls Labuschagne for 44 and has Khawaja caught at slip

  • Five England changes - In: Burns, Pope, Billings (debut), Woakes, Robinson. Out: Hameed, Bairstow (injured), Buttler, Anderson (niggle), Leach

  • Daily highlights show on BBC iPlayer from 18:00

  1. Postpublished at 11:10 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    While we wait, just enjoy Marnus Labuschagne in a heap on the floor.

  2. Postpublished at 11:08 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    The big plastic sheet is coming on now.

    This is surely it for the day. Surely.

  3. Postpublished at 11:05 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    Ughhh, some of the covers are coming back on the pitch.

    Not the plastic ones yet, just the woven cover they have at the moment.

  4. Play will resume at 11:15 GMTpublished at 11:01 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022
    Breaking

    That should mean we have 45 minutes play tonight, but we'll confirm that as soon as possible.

  5. Postpublished at 10:58 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    Most of the covers are now off and it looks like the stumps are going back in the ground.

    Play shouldn't be too far away by the look of things.

  6. Postpublished at 10:56 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    Geoff Lemon
    Australian journalist and TMS commentator in Hobart

    The covers are coming off here in Hobart. Some hope that we'll get back on the ground given we have another 70 minutes left in the day's scheduled play.

  7. Postpublished at 10:55 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    We have seen in the Sheffield Shield teams can chase over 300 here in the fourth innings. It is a good batting track. If you get through the new ball it offers a fair bit to the batsmen.

    I guess you can't judge this pitch until both teams have bowled but once you are in it can be pretty good.

  8. Postpublished at 10:51 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    Oh, maybe not.

    They are taking the covers off the bowlers run-ups.

    We may well get some more play here. Close was scheduled for 11:30 GMT, but we can play until 12:00.

  9. Postpublished at 10:49 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    Hmmm, I can't really tell what is going on in Hobart.

    The majority of the ground staff seem to have made their way off the outfield, back to their hut.

    The two umpires may have just appeared, but are now making their way back inside. Stumps may not be too far away.

  10. Postpublished at 10:47 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    It seemed certain that Cameron Green would go on and make his maiden Test century, but England's short-ball tactics eventually paid dividends.

    Mark Wood, who has been expensive, was bowling round the wicket into the body of Green and it felt like a plan that had a hint of desperation about it until Green pulled to Zak Crawley on the deep square leg boundary.

  11. Postpublished at 10:44 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    Travis Head continued the counter-attack alongside Cameron Green after the interval and his second century of the series may well be match-winning.

    He smashed 101 off 113 balls and put on 121 with Green.

    The left hander, who came back into the team for Marcus Harris, got his hundred and then tamely chipped to mid-on next ball.

  12. Postpublished at 10:42 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head then counter-attacked for Australia in a partnership of 71.

    Labuschagne fell in extraordinary fashion as he was bowled round his legs, after slipping while shuffling outside off-stump.

    He'd done his job though, and shifted the momentum. So much so that even at 83-4 Aggers thought Australia had their noses ahead at lunch.

  13. Postpublished at 10:39 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    It could have been even better for England, with Zak Crawley dropping Marnus Labuschagne when he was yet to get off the mark.

    Crawley is one of England's better catchers and has now taken three in the innings, but generally, wow, England's catching is poor isn't it?

    It is so sub-standard at times.

  14. Postpublished at 10:36 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    Geoff Lemon
    Australian journalist and TMS commentator in Hobart

    I just took a walk outside, and there is not even any rain at Bellerive. There is the slightest bit of airborne moisture, like floating sea spray coming off the Derwent. Occasional spots of it landing. It is truly absurd that we're not playing in this weather.

  15. Postpublished at 10:35 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special

    No-one in the ground has an umbrella expect the umpire in the middle. It is barely raining.

    Groundstaff with coversImage source, Getty Images
  16. Postpublished at 10:33 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    England then removed Steve Smith without scoring too.

    David Warner and Smith out without scoring? Australia 12-3? Many England fans waking up would have been excused for thinking they were in a dream.

    You'd have got good money on Smith only being Australia's fifth-highest run-scorer in the series before it started.

  17. Postpublished at 10:30 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    England then had Usman Khawaja caught at slip to leave the hosts 7-2.

    It is funny how cricket works, isn't it?

    Last week Khawaja hit twin centuries and then this week he is moved up the order and he looked uncomfortably and scratchy and it felt like a matter of time before he nicked off.

  18. Postpublished at 10:27 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    England don't want Australia to get up to 300. That would be a tough ask against the Australia bowling attack. We have seen how the ball gets softer after the initial spell with the new ball.

  19. Postpublished at 10:25 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    England bowled really well with the new ball and they beat the outside edge numerous times in the opening six overs, before Ollie Robinson had David Warner caught at slip.

    Warner went without scoring, and it was the 200th time an Australian opener had fallen for a duck in Test cricket.

  20. Postpublished at 10:21 Greenwich Mean Time 14 January 2022

    We should have known it would be an unusual day when Stuart Broad fell flat on his face from the first ball.

    It's rare we see Broad smile and laugh so enjoy that!