Summary

  • England need 268 to win Ashes Test

  • Dunkley (16) edges Garth behind

  • Beaumont (22) edges Gardner to slip, before Lamb (28) trapped lbw by McGrath

  • Sciver-Brunt then top-edges Gardner to short fine leg, before spinner pins Knight infront

  • Australia all out for 257

  • Ecclestone finishes with 5-63 to finish with 10-192 in Test

  • Mooney 85, Litchfield 46, Perry 25

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Live Reporting

Mike Peter

  1. Aus 115-1

    Ecclestone drifts down leg and Beth Mooney sweeps hard and to the boundary. That's her 50, a fantastic platform for this Australian innings.

    A third Test fifty for Mooney, her 54th in all internationals.

  2. Alex Blackwell
    Former Australia batter on BBC Test Match Special

    I'm really happy for Kate Cross. She was very expensive with the new ball yesterday, got injured on the hand and then dropped that catch but then produced a great wicket.

    Cross has a big role to play in this attack, she is the most experienced seam bowler and if she is flat England are very unlikely to win this game, but if she is up and running then she can be dangerous.

  3. Aus 111-1

    Mooney hurries through a single. It might have been tight for Ellyse Perry running through to the striker's end, but she's fast and Emma Lamb's throw is wayward.

    Just the single from the over.

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    Of all aspects of cricket fielding is the easiest to improve, albeit with much hard work. The disparity in the fielding in this game is huge, it makes such a difference.

    Nick in Haywards Heath.

  5. Aus 110-1

    Perry finds the gap in Ecclestone's aggressive field, timing the ball nicely through the gap between the silly point and mid-on and the ball races to the boundary.

    It prompts a change in the field - Sophia Dunkley removes her helmet and retreats from silly point to a slightly less silly short cover.

  6. Aus 106-1

    This has been a considerably improved spell from Kate Cross.

    She hurries Ellyse Perry slightly with her opening delivery, but she gets her block in. One ball does drift down leg, but Amy Jones collects smartly.

  7. Aus 105-1

    Three runs for Perry off the final delivery of Ecclestone's over, turned sharply behind square to get her off the mark.

  8. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    That wicket will give Cross so much confidence. She said to me yesterday that it was the worst she has ever bowled in an England shirt and she was visibly upset. But when you bowl a ball like that you can just relax.

  9. Aus 102-1

    Mooney pounces on a wider delivery and drives Cross through the covers, but Sophie Ecclestone cuts the ball off.

    We're watching replays for the Litchfield wicket in Cross's previous over. The ball deviated remarkably from a standard delivery - a superb delivery.

  10. View from the press box...

    Newspaper back pages@CoyneJames

    The Cricketer's James Coyne: Tammy Beaumont's record breaking innings for England yesterday hasn't quite knocked Vladimir Putin off the front pages of the Sunday papers, but this is a pretty good showing on the back pages.

  11. Aus 100-1

    Beth Mooney brings up Australia's century with a flick into mid-wicket off Ecclestone.

  12. How's stat?!

    Phil Long
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    That partnership was one shy of the 100 for opening partnership. The last time Australia had an opening partnership was in 1998 at Worcester with Belinda Clark and Lisa Kitely making 127 for the first wicket.

  13. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Kate Cross celebratesReuters

    That is a beauty from Cross!

  14. Aus 99-1

    Ellyse Perry emerges from the pavilion. She made 99 in the first innings, before being dismissed by Lauren Filer.

    She fends off Cross's last two deliveries.

  15. wicket

    WICKET

    Litchfield b Cross 46 (Aus 99-1)

    Got her!

    Cross dismisses Litchfield, who's out leaving for the second time in the match. The debutant can consider herself unfortunate, most batters would leave that. However, Cross's ball absolutely jagged back and took out the opener's stumps.

    The opening partnership is broken one short of the century.

  16. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Does starting with Sophie Ecclestone show no trust in Lauren Bell?

  17. Aus 96-0

    Phoebe LitchfieldGetty Images

    A short leg and a silly point for Ecclestone as she surrounds Phoebe Litchfield. The 20-year-old doesn't seem intimidated, she steps up and lifts Ecclestone's third ball into the empty deep-cover outfield and over the ropes.

    But we have a chance now! A push past Tammy Beaumount at short-leg, she almost got her fingers to it.

  18. Aus 92-0

    A bit too wide from Cross and Beth Mooney guides the ball through the covers for the first four of the morning. A drive brings four more.

    Litchfield and Mooney are on 42 apiece.

  19. Q&A with Sciver-Brunt

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  20. Kate Cross is getting some treatment on the field. The physio has a bit of a yank on her thumb, before strapping on some tape around her wrist and the sore digit.

    Remarkably she's stepped up to bowl her second over.