Summary

  • Australia close on 113-4, trailing by 162

  • Superb Wood dismisses Khawaja, Smith & Head to move past 100 Test wickets

  • Warner chops on off Woakes for 28

  • England 592 all out - leading by 275 - after Bairstow's sparkling 99*

  • Australia are 2-1 up in the five-match series

  • Rain forecast on days four and five

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews and Tom Mallows

  1. Cameron Green is going to continue with his short balls.

    "Short ball dribble" as Vic Marks just called it.

    There are eight players on the boundary...

  2. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at Old Trafford

    Well I did not expect to need my sunglasses today.

  3. Eng 429-4

    Lead by 112

    Proper line and lengths from Pat Cummins and England take just two singles from the over.

    The new ball is available. No immediate sign it is going to be taken.

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    Calling it now - Carey has just dropped the Ashes!

    Geoff

    Alex Carey is better at running out batsmen when the over is completed and the batsman isn't running.

    Martin, Derbyshire

  5. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    Australia don't have a proper method right now other than hope. They need the batters to make a mistake.

  6. Eng 427-4

    Lead by 110

    Cameron Green is on. You know what that means, short balls.

    England take five from the over.

    The new ball is one over away. Will Australia take it?

  7. Ben Stokes should be out, but Alex Carey dropped the ball.

    I won't say anything else, I'll let you lot...

  8. Vic Marks
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    They've not been very violent boundaries either, just three beautiful shots.

  9. Eng 422-4

    Lead by 105

    Four more!

    Beautiful again from Harry Brook as he guides through third.

    He's up to 32 off 55 balls.

  10. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    Brook didn't even smash that, he just lent forward and hit it. It was a classical cover drive.

  11. Eng 418-4

    Lead by 101

    Oh, Harry Brook!

    He creams back-to-back boundaries through the covers. Glorious stuff.

    He'd played out 51 balls without a boundary and then two in two.

  12. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    A lot of people I was talking to earlier fancy that the game is being done today.

  13. Eng 410-4

    Lead by 93

    Just the boundary from the over, but England have added 26 runs already this morning.

  14. Eng 410-4

    Lead by 93

    Ben Stokes is enjoying himself.

    He backs away to leg again and a flat-batted pull splits mid-wicket and mid-on and goes for four.

    That is Stokes' third four of the morning.

  15. Eng 406-4

    Lead by 89

    Three singles from Mitchell Starc's second over on day three.

    The sun is beaming over Emirates Old Trafford now.

    Never doubt the Manchester weather.

  16. Eng 403-4

    Another run out chance!

    Ben Stokes crunches a drive to Pat Cummins at mid-on and both he and Harry Brook set off before deciding against it.

    Brook would be out by an absolute mile at the non-striker's end but Cummins' throw misses the stumps.

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    Jack Thomas: Bairstow wouldn’t miss that.

  18. Eng 403-4

    Lead by 86

    A better bouncer from Josh Hazlewood has Ben Stokes in a tangle, but he's able to guide it down to fine leg for a single.

    England have added 19 runs in three overs this morning.

  19. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    This is not easy to do. Starc is bowling at 80mph and it's not easy to club it away. They're making it look so easy.

  20. Eng 402-4

    Lead by 85

    Ben Stokes is going to enjoy himself by the looks of it.

    A short ball from Josh Hazlewood just sits up and the England captain crunches a pull shot to the boundary.

    Brutal.