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Ashes 2023, ENG vs AUS 5th Test Day 3 Highlights: England 389/9 at Stumps as Australia take flurry of wickets late
The Ashes 5th Test Day 3 Highlights: Root missed out on a century and England would hope that they can somehow put up a target of over 400 for Australia.
Ashes 2023, ENG vs AUS 5th Test Day 3 Highlights: Day 3 has almost entirely belonged to England, even though Australia clawed back on some of the damage towards the end of it. blasted past the slender lead Australia held and their own lead was over 320 by the halfway mark of the third session. All batters except Harry Brook got a start, with Joe Root falling on 91 off 106 balls. Zak Crawley was the highest scorer for England before Root, having made 73 in 76 balls while Jonny Bairstow is now inching closer to overtaking that total. Bairstow and Root had shared a 110-run stand that came off 148 balls for the fifth wicket. The opening stand between Ben Duckett and Crawley was worth 79 runs after which Ben Stokes and Crawley put up 61 for the second wicket off just 57 balls. Stokes and Root then put up 73 for the third wicket off 79 balls.
...Read MoreAshes 2023 Live score England vs Australia 5th Test Day 3: Top wicket-takers
Broad is the highest wicket-taker in the ongoing series with 20 wickets, followed by Australia's Starc (19) and Cummmins (17).
Ashes 2023 Live score England vs Australia 5th Test Day 3: Top run-scorers
In the ongoing Ashes series, Khawaja is the highest run-scorer with 424 runs, followed by Crawley (407) in second position, followed by England captain Stokes (363) in third spot.
Ashes 2023 Live score England vs Australia 5th Test Day 3: Bazball fireworks expected?
England will be aiming for a strong start with their Bazball approach. All eyes will be on their openers Crawley and Duckett. Crawley has already bagged a ton, smacking 189 runs off 182 balls in the fourth Test.
Ashes 2023 Live score England vs Australia 5th Test Day 3: 'We didn't get a bigger lead', says Smith
After the final session yesterday, Smith said, "Would have been nice to have got a bigger lead, wicket played quite nice, a lot of us got starts. A couple of partnerships helped, we started a counterpunch, not a bad end to the day, but overall disappointed we didn't get a bigger lead."
"No set plan, they bowled really well this morning, credit where it's due. We took it deep and got more opportunities at the back end. It swung a lot, quite shiny and good swing bowlers. Not a great deal of seam. We want to keep the scoreboard ticking but guys are allowed to bowl well, it's Test cricket, got to respect it," he further added.
Ashes 2023 Live score England vs Australia 5th Test Day 3: Smith heroics!
Smith was in hot form and slammed 71 runs off 123 balls to help Australia post 295, in response to England's 283. Australia lead by 12 runs and England will begin their second innings in the upcoming first session.
Ashes 2023 Live score England vs Australia 5th Test Day 3: Hello and good afternoon everyone!
Hello and good afternoon everyone! Welcome to our live coverage of today's coverage of Day 3 of the ongoing 5th Ashes Test match, at The Oval in London. Stay tuned folks!
