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. Eng 289-7

    Target 435 | Aus need three wickets

    Good running from Will Jacks as he clips Pat Cummins through square leg and sprints back for two.

    A single gives Brydon Carse two balls to face and the second of them causes him trouble, it leaps up and it pops it into the leg side... but the ball lands safely.

    Carse is off the mark and stays on strike with 146 still needed for England.

    Australia are three wickets away.

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    Jamie Smith all set for a ton and the red mist descended.

    Spence, Edinburgh

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

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    It was nice to see, and that will do Jamie Smith good moving forward.

    A good confidence builder for Smith. All the talent in the world and he finally showed a bit of it in Adelaide.

    It has been a good effort this morning. They have given the Barmy Army something to cheer about.

  4. Eng 285-7

    Target 435 | Aus need three wickets

    Big celebration from Mitchell Starc after ending that stand of 91 with Will Jacks.

    Brydon Carse is the new batter and is beaten by a rapid delivery from Starc to end the over.

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

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    It is exactly what we knew was going to happen.

    Frustrating because Jamie Smith was looking so good. He was showing all his talent and showing he can go through the passages of play.

    It's like he wants to play too many shots. It is the new ball and Mitchell Starc - you have gifted him a wicket.

  6. wicket

    WICKET

    Smith c Cummins b Starc 60 (Eng 285-7)

    The fun is over. One shot too many from Jamie Smith.

    Just as England might have started to let belief creep back in, Mitchell Starc strikes.

    Banged in back of a length, Smith tries to flay it over the leg side but miscues it and it goes straight up.

    Pat Cummins is halfway back at mid-wicket and takes a straightforward catch.

    Did Smith need to play that one after boundaries the two balls previous?

  7. Eng 285-6

    Target 435 | Aus need four wickets

    Jamie Smith is on a roll!

    On the pads from Mitchell Starc and Smith whips it straight square for four more.

    And again! Angled across his this time and driven through extra cover for another boundary.

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

    What impresses me about Jamie Smith: One being so young, but two is his ability to go through the gears and his ability to pick up length.

  9. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

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    Jamie Smith's ninth 50 score in Test cricket. Two of which he has converted to a hundred.

  10. 50 runs

    50 for Jamie Smith

    Eng 276-6

    Four more!

    Jamie Smith pumps the ball back over Pat Cummins' head for four to bring up his seventh Test fifty.

    A very important knock for him after a tough series to this point.

  11. Eng 272-6

    Target 435 | Aus need four wickets

    Gorgeous shot from Jamie Smith.

    Pat Cummins shares the new ball but he overpitches slightly and Smith drives smartly through the covers for four.

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

    That ball cuts Will Jacks in half. It was a good bit of bowling coming back towards Jacks.

    If England gets the new ball to 15 overs old, then you never know. The new ball has taken wickets so often in this series.

    If there is a wicket in the next 10-15 minutes, you feel it is Australia's game. That bit of hope is making us all nervous.

  13. Eng 268-6

    Target 435 | Aus need four wickets

    Mitchell Starc is shown prodding his side as he walks back to his mark. Is he in bother, too?

    Well, the next ball is 142kph so I think he's fine. Remember he has had two warnings for running on the pitch so he does have to watch that.

    Beauty. He brings one back to beat Will Jacks on the inside edge. A reminder of the threat the big left-armer poses.

  14. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    It is going to go one way or the other in the next 20 minutes or three hours, who knows?

  15. Mitchell Starc has the new cherry in hand. Here we go...

  16. Eng 267-6

    Target 435 | Aus need four wickets

    Last over before the second new ball is available and Jamie Smith wants to cash in.

    The England wicketkeeper drills a cover drive to the fence then skips down and hits over mid-off next ball.

    One bounce and over the rope. 10 from the over in total, England need another 168.

    But this is the big moment. Australia take the second new ball.

  17. Word from the Australia camp is that Nathan Lyon is being assessed by the medical staff and they will provide an update in due course.

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

    Bide your time out there in the middle. With someone like Marnus Labuschagne, you are going to get that shorter one.

  19. Eng 257-6

    Target 435 | Aus need four wickets

    Another bowling change and Marnus Labuschagne is on to bowl his part-time leg-spin - it's pretty good part-time leg-spin, to be fair, though.

    But after three singles from the first five, the last is a drag down and Jamie Smith powers it through extra cover off the back foot.

    Four runs.

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    We may lose the series here, but this partnership has given me hope that we can nab at least one Test. We clearly have the ability to bat well and sensibly, and hopefully we will adopt that approach.

    John, London