Summary

  • England close on 207-6 in chase of 435

  • Australia need four more wickets to win series and retain Ashes

  • Crawley (85) shows good appliance and top-scores with 85

  • Cummins and Lyon both take three wickets

  • Australia all out for 349 with Head making 170 and Carey 72

  • Stokes bowls seven-over spell as England take 6-38 at end of Australia innings

  • Third Test, day four, Adelaide

  • Listen to BBC Radio 5 Live Sport commentary at top of page

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Sam Drury

  1. Well, well, look who it is.

    Ben Stokes, who didn't bowl in 66 overs yesterday, is going to take the ball straight away for England.

    Can the England skipper manufacture something magical in these opening overs?

    Time to find out...

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    Get ready for the greatest England Ashes come back. Come on lads.

    Dan, Oxfordshire

  3. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket reporter in Adelaide

    The first thing we are all going to be looking at in the first five minutes of play is how well Ben Stokes is moving. When he doesn't put himself in the heat of battle alarm bells start to ring.

    Even if changes come to the England team after this, the one person who should be retain is Ben Stokes, he remains England's best leader.

  4. How stat?!

    For the record, the highest successful chase in Test cricket was the West Indies' 418-7 against Australia in St John's in 2003.

    The home side will likely be past that total if they bat for little more than an hour this morning.

    The highest chase in Australia - and also the second highest overall - is South Africa's 414-4 in Perth in 2008.

  5. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket reporter in Adelaide

    There are international careers at stake. There will be a few people in the England dressing room thinking they need a score to guarantee they are playing in front of 100,000 people on 26 December. Ollie Pope is chief among them and an outside chance of not being in that team would be Zak Crawley and Jamie Smith.

    The problem is England have picked a squad that does not leave them with many options. Jacob Bethell is the only spare batter and the likely replacement for Pope, who has fewer Ashes half centuries than Jofra Archer.

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

    England captain Ben Stokes (C) chats with the coaching staffGetty Images

    It very easy in hindsight to pick it all apart. Ben Stokes has been involved in everything. He didn't bowl yesterday, so he is obviously carrying something - he can't be fit.

    He went out with the bat and left every ounce of energy out there. There should be three or four captains out there - Stokes can't shoulder every decision.

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

    There is no doubt over the last three years that this England team have been thrilling to watch.

    They have had record run chases where other teams would have batted out for the draw.

    But when you're against good bowling attacks, you have to absorb the pressure at times. England need to learn how to reign it in against good teams.

  8. A 356-run lead already.

    Australia have six wickets in hand and, with two days to play, will likely bat into the afternoon to put England out of the game.

    But a morning burst of wickets for the tourists and England just about remain in miracle territory. Think chasing 378 against India at Edgbaston in 2022, or 371 against the same opponents at Headingley last summer.

    But even if everything goes their way, Ben Stokes' side will face a harder chase that either of those two remarkable matches.

    These are the straws, folks, and we shall grasp them as tightly as we can.