Summary

  • Sluggish Australia close on 61-1 after Woakes removes Warner

  • Moeen injures groin while batting & not able to field

  • England bowled out inside 55 overs for 283

  • Brook top-scores with belligerent 85 off 91 balls

  • Moeen (34) & Brook share 111-run stand for fourth wicket

  • Starc 4-82, two wickets apiece for Murphy and Hazlewood

  • Australia, who lead series 2-1, won toss

  • England looking to avoid first Ashes series defeat at home for 22 years

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews, Sam Drury and Timothy Abraham

  1. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    England could be six down today, there's been a few drops from Australia and some have flown through the cordon.

    Harry Brook's game doesn't feel ready yet for the moving ball, he is great to watch playing straight. He is nowhere near a No.3. You see here already at No.5, he could've been out twice already off 12 balls.

    Alex Carey will be worried, if Brook stays in, he scores and scores quickly. Australia are on the verge of doing something great.

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    This is Ali’s MOment to score a hundred.

    Max, London

  3. Eng 83-3

    Eek!

    Harry Brook looks to drive but his balance is all wrong. It flies off the edge and through the slip cordon before going away for four.

    Streaky.

  4. Here's how Joe Root fell.

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    Dave: What's the betting on five down by lunch? The optimism was high just 15 minutes ago.

    Stu Foster: England did well while I was out getting my hair cut. As soon as I sit down on my return...

    Richard Wilkinson: Oh England…

  6. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I don't know whether that is just tiredness. That's a bad miss. Carey's legs just flattened, he didn't have any power to go across. It was a straight forward edge, he would've seen that the whole way.

  7. Eng 78-3

    Two dots end the over.

    Pat Cummins has been absolutely brilliant so far today.

  8. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Carey's dropped it, that's the third chance Australia have put down today.

  9. dropped catch

    Brook dropped on five

    Oh, Alex Carey.

    Pat Cummins draws the edge from Harry Brook but Carey spills it.

    He's diving to his right, but by no means at full stretch and it just pops out of the right hand.

    His hands go straight to this face. It is one he should be taking.

  10. Here are the wickets of Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley.

  11. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Will Harry Brook play the Harry Brook way? Or will he just try and draft it out?

  12. Eng 74-3

    Harry Brook, who 20 minutes ago probably didn't expect to bat in this session, is off the mark with a single.

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    Andy Zaltzman
    Cricket statistician on Test Match Special

    That is the tenth time Josh Hazlewood has got Joe Root in Tests. He averages 30.4 against them.

  14. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

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    Root was just trying to glide it down to that profitable area. It's just an inside edge. He's whacking his bat with his gloves, he knows he's made a mistake. Australia have picked up three huge wickets and are well on top now in this Test match.

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    WICKET

    Root b Hazlewood 5 (Eng 73-3)

    Ugh.

    England have gone from 62-0 to 73-3 three-and-a-half overs.

    Josh Hazlewood returns and cramps Joe Root for room. The former England captain tries to guide down to point but just inside edges onto his off stump.

    Australia are on top now.

  16. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Australia have got a great chance now. They looked flat for almost an hour until that Duckett wicket. They've got two key wickets. If they can get Joe Root out early, they will feel they can make some in roads.

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    Andy Zaltzman
    Cricket statistician on Test Match Special

    Pat Cummins has just six maidens from his 134 overs bowled in this series.

  18. Eng 73-2

    Joe Root is up and running in vintage style as he guides down to third for four.

    He keeps the strike with a lovely push down the ground.

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    Just sent a picture of a well set England scorecard, openers cruising on 61-0, to a colleague (1158). In the six minutes it took for him to reply, the tables turned. Apologies to England fans everywhere.

    Blocker Brady, Manchester

  20. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Moeen did a really good service for the side at Headingley, he went in at No.3 to let Brook go in at No.5. He makes batting look so easy. His Test batting average of 28 seems too low for him, he is better than that, plays more like a 35.