Haddin out now. England should have a healthy first innings lead.
English cricket 2015 - NZ, The Ashes, Pak and SA
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Mitch Marsh get your kit on.
Australia bowled out for 308, England has a lead of 122. Mark Taylor thinks 250 would take some chasing on this pitch.
England should have a lead of 250 by tea or shortly after today which would give Australia over 2 days to chase it down, 250 is no where near enough.
Australia need to restrict England to a lead of just under 300, I can see them chasing 250 to 300 especially as I can't see Smith or Clarke being foolish against Ali again.
Getting Cook out gives them a lifeline
Getting Cook out gives them a lifeline
Hopefully England can bat till after lunch tomorrow, do That they win the test match
Big session ahead. Aus (haddin) need to take their chances. Ideally England would want to still be batting this time tomorrow.
If the pitches are gonna be like this for the rest of the series then we wont win.
First ball and Lyth has survived an umpires call LBW review from Clarke. On first viewing i thought it was out, Dhamasena importantly felt it wasn't out and that's how it stayed.
Ballance out caught by Haddin.
Oh ffs. Most obvious duck ever.
Doing a bit for Lyon. Not sue who that pleases more, really...
Looks lively now this pitch.
Something in it for everyone. One big score from an Englishman in this 2nd innings and we'll be set i think. Set Australia 350 to win
Something in it for everyone. One big score from an Englishman in this 2nd innings and we'll be set i think. Set Australia 350 to win
If scoring continues at this rate and England don't lose wickets then they'll have a lead of 400 at least by lunch tomorrow, then they will declare.
350 won't be enough. A lead of 400-450+ and declare by lunch tomorrow.
I don't think they'll get 350 but yeah we'll probably do that. 400/450.
Weather is a bit dodgy though for Sunday, we don't want to bat too long
Can we say now that Joe Root scoring runs is as likely as taxation and death? The guy is a machine.
Great to see Bell get his 50, but he has to follow it up this tournament.
Great to see Bell get his 50, but he has to follow it up this tournament.
Starc too lazy to appeal 
Stokes should be out but no appeal27 overs left today, so 90-100 runs potentially, we could bat through to lunch tomorrow and leave them a day and a half to chase.
Root gone 
Shame the Aussies haven't spent as much time on their bowling plans as they have on their mind games.
Are reviews Haddin's replacement for just knocking the bails off and claiming someone is out?
Stupid from broad
FFS momentum swinging to Australia. Hope we can get to at least 400 now after it looking a sure bet a couple of hours ago.
England 60 runs short IMO.
I think We've probably got enough as it is. Psychologically though it's always nice to get to 400 ahead.
Mitchell Johnson's run-up is quickly heading into Mr Humphries levels of mincing.
Wood taking the piss. Better hitter of the ball than Andy Murray.
It's always fun when a tailend batsman starts scoringWood taking the piss. Better hitter of the ball than Andy Murray.
England all out for 289. Australia need 412 to win.
Should be enough, 412.
15 wickets taken today with a 411 lead. Pitch is up and down. Would have liked 450 but I think it's enough.
Good. Cook would have waited to declare when the lead was 480+ if he'd had the chance.
Should've done better, but it's probably enough. Just need the quicks to get into rythym ASAP tomorrow morning.
412 to get on that pitch is a very tough ask. Can't see the Aussies managing it.
They need to pray for rain. Or a Monty style rearguard performance.
They need to pray for rain. Or a Monty style rearguard performance.
The convicts are going to have 2 days so they need to be sensible, but hopefully England can make an early breakthrough in the morning.
So frustrating – I'm going tomorrow, had banked on seeing an hour of slogging from England. So careless to throw wickets away like that. Still very much in the box seat but who knows, if a couple of their top order get going could be tight. Forecast of rain on Sunday.
Still think it was silly batting in that last session, England (read Ali) should have batted the day out so they could have first choice with the roller tomorrow morning at least.
Might be a godsend with the weather around on Sunday
As if we'd batted more cautiously and aimed to get a lead of 450, we'd have probably needed tomorrow morning's session, a session we may need
Would have been nice to have batted til tomorrow so we could throw them in unexpected rather than their openers having all night and morning to prepare