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

  1. Eng 222-7published at 44 overs

    If there is one thing Chris Woakes loves it's a cover drive. He unfurls his first of the innings here as Josh Hazlewood offers him a bit of width.

    The extra cover fielder might just have got a fingertip on it to take the pace off it but the ball still has enough on it to reach the boundary cushion.

  2. Eng 217-7published at 43.2 overs

    Slapped back down the ground by Mark Wood.

    Flat-batted back past Josh Hazlewood and timed superbly!

  3. Postpublished at 15:11 British Summer Time 27 July 2023

    Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at The Oval

    The hum at The Oval has quietened. The atmosphere in London is often much, much different to the raucous atmospheres at Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham. It has been today again. Occasionally roars of "shotttttt" but not the chanting and certainly no beer snakes.

  4. Eng 213-7published at 43 overs

    It's the heroes of Headingley out there for England now, Chris Woakes and Mark Wood. They'll be trying to drag the hosts up towards 250 and beyond.

  5. Postpublished at 15:08 British Summer Time 27 July 2023

    Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    StarcImage source, Reuters

    That wasn't quite there for that shot and it went to the safest pair of hands in the Australia team in Steve Smith.

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    WICKETpublished at 42.3 overs

    Brook c Smith b Starc 85 (Eng 212-7)

    One drive too many from Harry Brook.

    Full and wide from Mitchell Starc, Brook went after it and the edge flies to Steve Smith at a good height.

    England are in a bit of bother now. Four wickets in the session.

  7. Eng 212-6published at 42.2 overs

    That is glorious from Harry Brook.

    Straight drive back past Mitchell Starc, all along the ground. It doesn't get much better than that.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 15:05 British Summer Time 27 July 2023

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    Surely the declaration is coming let's see how the Aussies bat in these conditions

    Bryan Adger Darlington

    Declaration? England might be all out before then...

  9. Postpublished at 15:04 British Summer Time 27 July 2023

    Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    HazlewoodImage source, Getty Images

    One of those shots that Jonny Bairstow plays so often. He's dragged it into his stumps having a flirt outside off stump.

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    WICKETpublished at 42 overs

    Bairstow b Hazlewood 4 (England 208-6)

    Dragged on!

    Loose from Jonny Bairstow as he tries to flay the ball through the off side, gets an inside edge and it cannons into leg stump.

    Australia's seamers are making the most of these conditions.

  11. Postpublished at 14:59 British Summer Time 27 July 2023

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I think this is good from Australia. They have opened up the cover drive for Jonny Bairstow knowing that's how they got him out in the third Test at Headingley. It's clever tactics by saying 'go on, try to hit it through there'.

  12. 200 runs

    Eng 203-5published at 41 overs

    Close! Jonny Bairstow is tempted into a drive wide of off by Mitchell Starc and gets a thick inside edge, just past the stumps and down to fine leg for one.

    Harry Brook then drives uppishly but wide of mid-off, not timed so he has to settle for two.

  13. Postpublished at 14:57 British Summer Time 27 July 2023

    England would certainly take that, Jasper, after deliveries like this from Mitchell Starc...

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    Get Involvedpublished at 14:55 British Summer Time 27 July 2023

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    Lights are on and it's gloomy... surely spin from both ends like we had to do last week?

    Jasper in Verwood

  15. Eng 198-5published at 40 overs

    Josh Hazlewood ends the over with a full delivery that swings back in to Jonny Bairstow and hits his front pad.

    There's a brief appeal but with no conviction to it, the ball was going well down leg.

    Harry Brook's single earlier in the over means he now has his highest score in a home Test.

  16. Postpublished at 14:52 British Summer Time 27 July 2023

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    StarcImage source, PA Media

    If England had played attritional cricket they will probably think they could already be five wickets down at this stage anyway.

  17. Postpublished at 14:51 British Summer Time 27 July 2023

    It wouldn't be an Oval Test without Sir John Major being in attendance.

    OvalImage source, Reuters
  18. Eng 195-5published at 39 overs

    Jonny Bairstow is the new man in for England and gets off the mark first ball with a single.

    The ball is glided down to deep third for another single by Harry Brook before a dot ball ends a successful Mitchell Starc over.

    We're going to have another bowling change, Josh Hazlewood will replace Todd Murphy.

  19. Postpublished at 14:48 British Summer Time 27 July 2023

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Ben Stokes is looking at the pitch as it's nipped late. Ben was shaping up to play it through mid-wicket and expected it to carry on with the angle. It goes away from him at the last minute. It's not often you see Ben Stokes' off-stump fly out the ground. He doesn't get bowled that often. That's a good delivery from Mitchell Starc.

  20. Postpublished at 14:46 British Summer Time 27 July 2023

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Ben Stokes cannot quite believe it. And neither can we sitting here!