Summary

  • Australia's tail wags to take tourists to slender 12-run lead

  • Murphy and Cummins put on 49 for ninth wicket

  • Smith narrowly survives incredibly close run-out on 43, but holes out for 71

  • Root, Anderson & Broad all in the wickets as Australia fall from 115-2 to 185-7

  • Broad removes Khawaja and Head in magical post-lunch spell

  • In morning session, Labuschagne spectacularly caught by diving Root at first slip

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews, Sam Drury and Timothy Abraham

  1. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    This game is in the balance again, but the crowd are still very quiet here at The Oval.

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    Currently in a Labour ward cheering on my wife delivering baby number three… Come on Emma! Come on Broady!

    Chris, Sussex

  3. Aus 161-5

    Trail by 122

    After an England appeal for lbw is turned down fifth ball, Alex Carey gets off the mark with a boundary.

    Too full from James Anderson and it's driven firmly through extra cover by Carey.

  4. Makes sense. Is it Occam's razor that the simplest explanation is usually the right one?

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    Could be called an over as the current period of 6 balls has finished being bowled, so to signify this the umpire calls “over”…. Just a theory.

    Ricky

    The end of bowling from one end is finished as in over move to other end over.

    Andy Paisley

  6. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket writer at Old Trafford

    On the over chat. I think it's an over simply because it is 'over'.

  7. Aus 156-5

    Three from the Joe Root over, including the leg-bye taken from the lbw appeal.

    Jimmy Anderson will continue from the other end.

  8. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    There was no bat involved on UltraEdge but it looked like it came off the face of the bat. Luckily for Alex Carey it was outside the line.

  9. Not out

    Aus 155-5

    Not out. The impact was outside the line by some way.

    The third umpire saw a bit a murmur on UltraEdge but deciced that wasn't enough to say there was bat involved.

    Interesting but it made no difference in the end.

    England have just one review remaining.

  10. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    As soon as the umpire singled leg-bye it changed Ben Stokes' decision about whether to review it or not.

  11. England review

    England have gone upstairs for an lbw against Alex Carey.

    The left-hander missed on the sweep. Given not out.

    Any bat involved? Did it hit him outside the line?

  12. Interesting. Mark Wood came on for one over, replacing Joe Root, and now he's been taken off.

    Root is back.

  13. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Australia this morning opened themselves in a bit of hole this morning and it only takes one or two wickets to cause problems. They are still okay, but the wicket from Jimmy is big. There's a little bit in this pitch, still a bit of sideways movement.

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    Hopefully that’s silenced the Jimmy doubters for a while! GOAT.

    Daniel, London

  15. What an hour it has been for England since lunch.

    Here's is the third wicket to fall in that time - one Jimmy Anderson will really have enjoyed as he knocked over Mitch Marsh!

  16. Aus 153-5

    Another good over from Jimmy Anderson, just a single from it.

    Alex Carey drives the last ball into the covers but can't beat the fielder. Having faced 11 balls, he is yet to get off the mark.

    Time for drinks.

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    We're equally stumped in our office, Ellie. Can anyone help us out?

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    A question that is stumping our office (no pun intended) why is an over called an over?

    From Ellie in York

  19. Aus 152-5

    The crowd are fired up and so is Mark Wood.

    He comes charging in and sends down a yorker that Alex Carey just manages to dig out with the ball sliding off the inside edge and into the leg side.

  20. Joe Root's spell lasts just one over. Mark Wood is back on as Ben Stokes and England go for the jugular.