Summary

  • First Test, day two, Perth

  • Australia win by eight wickets to take 1-0 lead in five-match series

  • Head hits amazing 123 off 83 balls to lead hosts to astonishing win

  • England collapse from 65-1 to 164 all out in second innings to set only 205 for victory

  • Controversy around dismissal of England's Smith

  • Player ratings

  • Highlights available from 17:00 GMT on BBC iPlayer

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Live Reporting

by Timothy Abraham & Mike Peter

  1. Eng 67-2

    The Australians in the crowd sense a moment as Scott Boland runs into Joe Root, who is on pair, but manages to work one off his legs to get off the mark.

    And breathe...

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

    Good bit of bowling from Scott Boland, just bounced on him a bit. He'll be thankful for that because he didn't have a great day yesterday, he was a little bit too full. He's pulled his length back and just finding the seam now.

    Steve Smith was pretty adamant that he'd got that, it did look good.

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Duckett c Smith b Boland 28 (Eng 65-2)

    Ben Duckett is trudging back to the pavilion before the third umpire completes the double check of whether it's carried.

    Steve Smith has definitely got his fingers underneath the ball. It's clean, no doubt about that.

    It was a good ball from Boland, who bowled a touch too full yesterday. He squares up the left-handed opener with a back-of-a-length delivery which draws an edge off the top of Duckett's bat.

  4. Umpire review

    Scott Boland, who was expensive and wicketless in the first innings, is given the second over after luncheon and he thinks he has got Ben Duckett with his second ball.

    Duckett attempts to defend and edges to second slip where Steve Smith takes the catch.

    Has it carried, though? The umpires want a look.

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

    England just need to kick on a bit here, they need a few meaty partnerships.

  6. Eng 64-1

    Amid the chaos of day one, Ollie Pope played a very measured innings. He looked the one England player in true form having made a couple of decent scores in the one warm-up game.

    Cameron Green's first ball is wide and Pope has an uncharacteristic swish at it causing a few hearts to flutter in the crowd.

    A couple of balls later and Pope punishes a filthy shorter wide one from Green, waspishly cutting to the boundary for four.

  7. Right, the players are back out on the field at the Perth Stadium.

    Ollie Pope, pink handle on his bat, going through some shadow batting.

    Cameron Green will bowl the first over after lunch.

  8. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    The Australian bowlers bowled well but without any luck. The way Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope went about it was good, they've toned it down from yesterday.

    Australia will need some quick ones after the break but good Test match so far.

  9. Since then it's been relatively steady for England with Ben Duckett unbeaten on 28 off 37 balls and Ollie Pope on 24 not out off 48 deliveries.

    Jake Weatherald's fielding has helped as well.

  10. England's second innings got off to unfortunate start as Zak Crawley bagged a pair following a brilliant diving caught-and-bowled effort from Mitchell Starc.

    It certainly got Jim Maxwell buzzing on TMS.

    Australian TMS commentator reacts to Starc's great catch

  11. With just one Australian wicket left to take this morning, England skipper Ben Stokes started with Mark Wood and Gus Atkinson to enable either of them to open their account having gone wicketless on day one.

    England missed the chance to dismiss Brendan Doggett when Ollie Pope shelled a chance at short leg off Wood

    Nathan Lyon and Doggett added 11 runs to Australia's total before the former was caught by Harry Brook in the cordon off Brydon Carse.

  12. There was a bit of an injury scare to Joe Root during England's kick about this morning.

    However, he was able to take the field and there's nothing to suggest he won't be able to bat.

  13. Right, let's have a quick recap of the morning session shall we?

  14. Steve Bruce with Trevor Bayliss and Paul FarbraceGetty Images

    Steve Bruce is a big cricket fan. He's over in Perth with his 88-year-old father-in-law.

    He actually delayed taking the Sheffield Wednesday job in 2019 to watch England play in the West Indies.

  15. Thanks, Mike.

    Jonathan Agnew's View from the Boundary on Test Match Special is former Manchester United defender Steve Bruce.

    Well worth a listen by clicking 'listen live' at the top of the page.

  16. Mike Peter
    BBC Sport journalist

    A solid morning's work by England, they lead by 99 runs going into the interval.

    I'm going to hand you over to Timothy Abraham for lunch and the afternoon session.

  17. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    It's been England's morning. They've got through without losing another wicket after Crawley's dismissal.

  18. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It was only a couple of millimeters outside but that's still outside.

  19. Lunch - Eng 59-1

    Not out

    That's pitching outside leg!

    Ben Duckett survives!

    I'd be intrigued to see if that was going over the stumps, but the ball tracking stops once the outside leg call has been made.

    Meanwhile that physio break and review has taken us to lunch.

  20. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    It's above the pad but he is a small man.