That was Mitchell Starc's 76th Ashes wicket. It puts him level with John Emburey and one clear of Merv Hughes and Bill Johnston.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport chief cricket writer at Lord's

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And that, right there, is what makes the eight overs of madness last night so, so wasteful.

The field is spread and Mitchell Starc will bowl the first over.

Expect more short stuff. It certainly made for some interesting cricket yesterday evening...

Matthew Henry
BBC Sport at Lord's

There was piercing sunshine when I arrived at the ground. The cloud has filled in a bit since.

Here come the players.

England will resume on 278-4, trailing by 138 runs, with Harry Brook and Ben Stokes at the crease.

Both sides will still be confident of taking a first-innings lead. This first session on day three will go a long way to telling us which of the two will be able to back up that confidence...

Stuart Mitchell: I'm all in favour of Bazball but you can play Bazball and be smart about it. England's batting up to that crazy 45 minutes was attacking, positive, entertaining and relatively trouble free. Play like that consistently. Those 45 minutes was gung ho, brainless rubbish.

James Curran: Is anybody else getting sick of this criticism of England's approach. Let's go back to the previous regime eh?! Successful, wasn't it.

Steven Finn
Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

There's also an element of accepting that England have played in this manner for 12 months, we have to judge it at the end of the game. England found themselves having a good day in the cold figures. There's also a big opportunity with Australia set to be without Nathan Lyon.

A quick reminder that you have got until 11:00 BST to vote on whether or not England were right to keep taking on the short ball yesterday.

If you are on laptop/PC you can vote on the right of your page. On mobile or the app it is under a tab at the top.

It remains 52-48 against England's approach...

Thanks, Tom. That's quite the build-up - it won't be difficult to live up to that at all!

Moving swiftly on, we've got less than 10 minutes until the first ball of day three and the England players have just headed back into the pavilion after a pre-play kickabout on the outfield.

As we approach start of play it is time for me to take a break.

Thank you for all your ZaltzQuiz answers and views on Bazball this morning. Anything that gets people watching and talking about Test cricket is a good thing in my book.

Here to guide you through the first session is the man, the myth, the legend: Mr Sam Drury.

Sir Alastair Cook
Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

Someone asked me for a prediction today and I just laughed! How can you predict what happens with this England team? It's a really big opportunity for Harry Brook to score some quick runs.

Andrew Bevan: Is this mind games by the Aussies? If Lyon is done for this Test, surely he's back at the hotel resting not risking further injury stress from a bus journey and hobbling round the dressing room.

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Simon King
BBC weather presenter and meteorologist

There's hazy sunshine at the moment, there is generally a lot of cloud around, rolling it's way in, it will go overcast. There is a patch of rain at Oxford/Berkshire moving eastward and it will produce a bit of drizzle later today. It should be light though and it's only drizzle. It is turning humid again today, temperatures at around 20/21. Sunny spells expected over the weekend and it should be dry on Saturday and Sunday.

On day two, CricViz's WinViz rating gave England a 21% chance of winning this Test match. Today, it has been floating between 51% and 52% this morning. A strong morning would only be likely to bolster that.

52%? That number looks familiar...

Congrats to Stephen Jennings, who got the ZaltzQuiz answer spot on!

Andy Zaltzman
Cricket statistician on Test Match Special

One in 85, or 1.2%, of all England’s Ashes wickets to fall since 1950 had been stumpings up to the start of this series – 39 out of 3321 wickets, in 197 matches.

Before Edgbaston, England had lost one wicket to a stumping in the previous 34 Ashes Tests since December 2010. The last England batter to be stumped in a men’s Ashes Test in this country was Steve Harmison (off the bowling of Shane Warne) at Trent Bridge in 2005.

England are playing their fifth Test of 2023, and have already lost eight batters stumped this year. They suffered only nine stumpings in 2021 and 2022 combined, in a total of 30 matches, and nine in 62 Tests from 2016 to 2020.

Today's ZaltzQuiz answer coming up...

Chris Rushworth: Zaltzquiz. I'd say less than 1% considering pre white-ball cricket hardly anyone batted out of their crease.

Andy Jennings: 1.3%

Stephen Jennings:I bat in a way that makes Baz Ball look sensible and constrained, and Play Cricket tells me I've been out stumped 1.2% of my innings... so I'm going 1.2%.

He won't bowl this Test match but if Nathan Lyon is ruled out of the series then Todd Murphy (left of the below picture) is likely to come in.

The off-spinner, who made his debut in February and has played four Tests, is the only other spinner in Australia's squad.

Murphy, 22, returned figures of 7-124 in his first Test against India and took another seven in the rest of the series.

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