Summary

  • Australia, who lead series 2-1, close day one on 299-8

  • Superb Woakes dismisses Warner, Green, Marsh & Carey

  • Broad removes Khawaja & Head for 599th and 600th Test wickets

  • Labuschagne & Smith both out lbw on review to Moeen & Wood respectively

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  1. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:15 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

    #bbccricket, WhatsApp on 03301231826 or text 81111 (UK only - standard network charges apply)

    Listening to TMS on a 5 hour train journey from Berlin to Munich. Woakes has just made the journey a bit more bearable!

    Neil

  2. Aus 256-7published at 65 overs

    These could be two pivotal wickets, not just in the context of this match, but the Ashes series given the partnership that had just been developing.

  3. Postpublished at 17:14 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

  4. Aus 255-7published at 64.2 overs

    Back to the masterful consistency of Chris Woakes again, then. Mitchell Starc plays and misses and the pokes one into the covers, but there's no run.

    Can England knock over Australia's last three wickets tonight?

  5. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 17:11 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

    #bbccricket

    Matt: Jonny Bairstow that is an outrageous catch!

    Mike: Oh Jonny Bairstow, you are the love of my life.

    Stuart: For as much as he's been criticised for his keeping, we have to give Bairstow the praise when it's due. WHAT A CATCH!!!

  6. Aus 255-7published at 64 overs

    Phew. The Old Trafford crowd are now pumped up and roaring the bowlers in every ball.

    Mark Wood backs up that over from Chris Woakes with six dots to Alex Carey.

  7. Postpublished at 17:09 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

    Isa Guha
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    My word, when you're a man under pressure that is one way to silent your critics.

  8. Postpublished at 17:07 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

    Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    What a catch.. What a wicket. I don't think Bairstow can believe it either.

  9. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 62.5 overs

    Marsh c Bairstow b Woakes 51 (Aus 255-7)

    YJB...You Jolly Beauty.

    Two wickets in the over for Chris Woakes, but this owed everything to a brilliant catch from the England wicketkeeper, who has not been without his critics for his glovework.

    Mitch Marsh pokes at one and edges which has wrong-footed Bairstow who is going left. But the flame-haired Yorkshireman is able to get his right glove down and somehow cling on to the catch.

    He can hardly believe it.

  10. Postpublished at 17:02 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

    Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    I think Alex Carey quite likes the noise, gets the blood pumping.

  11. Postpublished at 17:02 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

    That brings Alex Carey to the crease. He's given a feisty welcome.

    Let's just say he's persona non grata to the Old Trafford crowd...

  12. Postpublished at 17:01 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

    Isa Guha
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Well... it's one of those that could've gone one way or another.

  13. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 62.1 overs

    Green lbw b Woakes 16 (Aus 254-6)

    It is mighty close, but Cameron Green is on his way.

    The ball-tracking technology shows the ball was just clipping the stumps so Green has trudge back to the dressing rooms as the umpire's call on the field stands.

  14. Postpublished at 16:59 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

    Isa Guha
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It might be height...

  15. Australia reviewpublished at 16:58 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

    Chris Woakes is thrown the ball and his first ball hits the top of the knee roll on Cameron Green's front pad.

    The appeal is a convincing one and umpire Joel Wilson gives it out on the field, but Green reviews.

    This looks close...

  16. Postpublished at 16:56 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

    Isa Guha
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Some defining moments in this Test series and Marsh's 50 might be another one of them.

  17. 50 runs

    Fifty for Marshpublished at 62 overs

    Mark Wood slips on to the legs of Mitch Marsh and the Aussie all-rounder flicks it off his toes down to fine leg for four. It brings up his third Test half-century.

  18. Postpublished at 16:54 British Summer Time 19 July 2023

    Isa Guha
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Australia are just finding their way here against Wood's pace.

  19. Aus 254-4published at 61.2 overs

    A comfortable second run for Cameron Green, after Chris Woakes fails to get round in time at deep mid-wicket, gets the back of Mark Wood up.

    He clenches his fists and roars in frustration. A fired-up Wood responds with a fierce yorker followed by an impassioned appeal but Green got some bat on it.

  20. Aus 245-5published at 61 overs

    A Moeen Ali full toss is given short shrift by Mitch Marsh down the ground but wrestles of control his length in the remainder of the over.

    England need to break this partnership.