Summary

  • Australia beat England by 82 runs to win third Test and secure Ashes with two games to spare

  • Starc, Cummins and Lyon take three wickets each for hosts

  • Smith adds 60 for England and Jacks 47, while Carse ends 39 not out

  • Off-spinner Lyon sustained hamstring injury on day five and is doubt for rest of series

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Mike Peter, Sam Drury and George Booth

  1. Lunch - Eng 309-7

    Target 435 | Aus need three wickets

    Well played, Will Jacks. He gets through the Scott Boland over without incident and he will be back after lunch.

    A good session for England, they added 102 runs for the loss of just one wicket this morning.

    They require another 126 for the most remarkable win. But Australia, who have lost Nathan Lyon to a hamstring injury, remain firm favourites with just three wickets needed.

  2. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    They have been good the Barmy Army.

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    I can't decide whether to go to sleep now and potentially miss the greatest English Test win ever or stay awake to watch the Aussies win the Ashes and sleep in pain.

    Ed, London

  4. Eng 309-7

    Target 435 | Aus need three wickets

    Will Jacks survives and gets a single from the penultimate ball before Brydon Carse leaves the last.

    But Australia sprint through and we will have one more before lunch.

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    Regardless of what happens, I think England can feel much more positive about Melbourne and Sydney after the fight they’ve shown here.

    Edward, New Malden

  6. Eng 308-7

    Target 435 | Aus need three wickets

    Three balls until lunch and Will Jacks is clinging on by his fingertips.

    Pat Cummins has gone past the bat twice already in the over with the England man getting himself into a real mess, moving across his stumps and trying to whip to leg at one point.

  7. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Brydon Carse is trying to get forward and not get trapped in the crease.

    Australian bowlers force you back a little bit.

  8. Eng 308-7

    Target 435 | Aus need three wickets

    Scott Boland is on the money throughout his first over with this new ball.

    As you'd expect.

    Brydon Carse defends solidly, though, and there will be time for one more over before the delayed lunch. Pat Cummins is back on to bowl it after a change of ends.

  9. Lyon out of remainder of day five

    Confirmation from Australia that Nathan Lyon has suffered a hamstring injury and will play no further part in this Test.

    You'd have to think his chances of playing again in the series are slim given how quickly the next two Tests come after this one.

  10. Eng 308-7

    Target 435 | Aus need three wickets

    Mitchell Starc twice jogs through rather than going into his bowling action as he battles with the foot holes.

    When he does eventually bowl another ball, just one more run comes from the over.

    It looks like a bowling change at the other end with Scott Boland coming on.

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    Concentrate, Brydon. Stay calm. Don’t copy your team-mates and throw it away.

    Dan, Manly

  12. Eng 307-7

    Target 435 | Aus need three wickets

    Excellent shot from Brydon Carse.

    Four more laced through the covers to start Mitchell Starc's latest.

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    The longer this goes on will Australia starts getting nervous and make a few mistakes... or is that just a British thing?

    Steven, Aberystwyth

  14. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC Chief Cricket Commentator on Test Match Special

    Nathan Lyon has left the ground in a vehicle.

  15. Eng 303-7

    Target 435 | Aus need three wickets

    England would argue that it has worked in Test cricket just about everywhere but India and Australia, Viren, but I take your point. Knowing when to rein it in, even just for a ball or two, goes a long way.

    Meanwhile, the 300 is up for the tourists as a top-edged pull shot from Will Jacks flies to the fine leg boundary.

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    When will England realise that this is Test cricket and not the Hundred? A few flashy shots may look great in the Hundred, but it just doesn't cut it at Test level.

    Viren

  17. Eng 297-7

    Target 435 | Aus need three wickets

    Shot!

    Wide half volley from Mitchell Starc next ball and Brydon Carse drills it through the covers for four.

    He drives again to end the over, not timed quite as well but it gets through the in-field and England run two. 138 needed...

  18. Not out

    Eng 291-7 | Aus need three wickets

    Well that was quick and easy. No bat involved, straight to ball-tracking... and it is bouncing over the top of middle.

    Australia lose a review. Just one left now.

  19. Australia review

    Eng 289-7 | Aus need three wickets

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    Mitchell Starc thinks he's got Brydon Carse lbw.

    Given not out but Australia review.

  20. Srinivas Vijaykumar
    CricViz analyst

    Will Jacks and Jamie Smith scored 91 runs between them. With England needing another 150 runs to win this match, their lower order will have to manage a world record effort to win this Test.

    Brydon Carse averages 28 in first-class matches, Jofra Archer averages 23 and Josh Tongue averages 14 - with each of them with at least one fifty-plus score in the format.

    220 is most number of runs that batters at number 7-11 have scored off the bat in a fourth innings of a Test match, managed by New Zealand against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 2009. New Zealand ended up all out on 397 chasing 494, lead by a 140 by Daniel Vettori.