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

  1. 6 runs

    Aus 137-4published at 55.5 overs

    Wow. That is some response from Mitch Marsh!

    He plants his front foot and launches the ball back down the ground for six! Super shot.

  2. Aus 131-4published at 55.4 overs

    Big appeal as Stuart Broad raps Mitchell Marsh on the pad with an in-ducker.

    Ben Stokes immediately signals that he thinks it is too high. It might have been sliding down leg, too.

    Either way, no review.

  3. Aus 130-4published at 55 overs

    With Mitchell Marsh in, I'd expect a very different approach from Australia. He doesn't tend to hold back.

    The all-rounder shows that intent early, walking at Chris Woakes before clipping through square leg for two.

    Marsh is squared up a touch last ball but gets his bat to it just in time. It's Stuart Broad time again...

  4. Postpublished at 14:03 British Summer Time 28 July 2023

    We've had three overs since lunch. Enough time for two Stuart Broad wickets.

    Here's the first of them, Usman Khawaja trapped lbw for 47...

  5. Postpublished at 14:02 British Summer Time 28 July 2023

    Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at The Oval

    Stuart Broad the crowd conductor is back.

  6. Aus 127-4published at 54 overs

    The crowd at The Oval has been pretty quiet so far in this Test match but those two wickets in two Stuart Broad overs have woken them from their slumber.

    They're making plenty of noise now - and Broad is calling for even more - as Mitchell Marsh sees off the last couple of balls in the over.

  7. Postpublished at 14:00 British Summer Time 28 July 2023

    Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    BroadImage source, PA Media

    Stuart Broad, he loves the Ashes. If he gets on one of those special little streaky runs... it's a brilliant delivery. That's an absolute cracker that would get any of the best out in the world. That's a beauty. This is where that first session all of a sudden comes and bites Australia on the backside.

  8. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 53.4 overs

    Head c Bairstow b Broad 4 (Aus 127-4)

    Stuart Broad does it again!

    It's a very similar delivery to the one earlier in the over but this time there is a feather of an edge through to Jonny Bairstow.

    That round the wicket angle, Travis Head was drawn into playing and there was just enough movement to find the edge.

    England and Broad are buoyant!

  9. Aus 123-3published at 53.2 overs

    How did that miss?!

    Full delivery from Stuart Broad to tempt Travis Head forward, it nips away to beat the edge and whistles millimetres past the off stump.

  10. Aus 123-3published at 53 overs

    Chris Woakes starts this off from the other end after lunch and sees his first ball whipped through mid-wicket by Steve Smith. Four.

    It's four more to end the over, more byes as the ball goes down leg and swings out of reach of the diving Jonny Bairstow.

  11. Postpublished at 13:53 British Summer Time 28 July 2023

    Stuart Broad has now taken 150 Ashes wickets. He is the first England player to reach that milestone.

    Stuart BroadImage source, Getty Images
  12. How's stat?!published at 13:53 British Summer Time 28 July 2023

    Based on CricViz's captaincy grid, which rates each bowler's likeliness of getting each batter out, England's best bowler to bowl at Travis Head would have been Moeen Ali...

  13. Postpublished at 13:52 British Summer Time 28 July 2023

    Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Hopefully England don't just bowl short at Head. On this track, it's just doing a bit. Why don't you have a couple of overs of just orthodox stuff.

  14. Aus 115-3published at 52 overs

    Trail by 168

    Travis Head is in at five for Australia and lets a full delivery, wide of off stump, go through to Jonny Bairstow.

    That ends a wicket maiden from Stuart Broad. Suddenly, the glacial pace at which Australia scored before lunch, looks a little less sensible.

    If England get another one quickly, the tourists could be in a spot of bother.

  15. Postpublished at 13:50 British Summer Time 28 July 2023

    Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Big, big wicket for England. Khawaja has been there for about four and a half hours. England needed a wicket straight after lunch and they've got him. Australia haven't particularly gone anywhere, that one hasn't gone anywhere. A good delivery from Broad.

  16. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 51.5 overs

    Khawaja lbw b Broad 47 (Aus 115-3)

    Three reds! Usman Khawaja has to go!

    It was just a full, straight ball from Stuart Broad but Khawaja played all round it and was rapped on the pad.

    He missed it by a distance and ball-tracking shows the ball was going on to hit leg stump.

    Big wicket for England in the first over of the session.

  17. Postpublished at 13:48 British Summer Time 28 July 2023

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Broad was waving around in absolute certain knowledge, but Khawaja has reviewed.

  18. Australia reviewpublished at 51.5 overs

    Aus 115-2

    Stuart Broad thinks he's made the breakthrough and Usman Khawaja is given out lbw.

    He talks to Steve Smith before calling for the review.

  19. Postpublished at 13:44 British Summer Time 28 July 2023

    Here come the players, let's hope for a more entertaining session than we had this morning!

    Stuart Broad - fishing hook now removed - will bowl the first over of the afternoon...

  20. Postpublished at 13:42 British Summer Time 28 July 2023

    Stuart Broad trying to break the tedium before lunch by pretending he's bitten on an imaginary fishing hook and is being reeled in.

    BroadImage source, Reuters