Ashes 2023, ENG vs AUS 5th Test Day 3 Highlights: England 389/9 at Stumps as Australia take flurry of wickets late

Just perfect line and length from Hazlewood, Broom cramped for space but plays at it. He feathers a nick to Carey behind the stumps.

Brook c Carey b Hazlewood 7 (6), England 222/4, lead by 210

Stokes takes on Murphy and holes out at mid-on. Some drift seems to have undone Stokes as he steps down the track and hits it straight to the Australia captain. The stand between the two brought on 73 runs in 78 balls before Stokes fell eight runs short of his half century.

Stokes c Cummins b Murphy 42 (67), England 213/3, lead by 201

It has come in just 42 balls, a pace which is considered good enough even in some T20 situations. England's lead has also gone past 200. 

Some ridiculous batting from Root here. The second ball of the over is inside edged and bounces out the wicketkeeper before reaching the boundary. Then Root rocks back for the third delivery which is short and uppercuts Starc. He moves to 48 off 39!

Now Root moves into the 40s. Just a nice push down the ground off Starc and England go to 203 and their lead has swollen to 191. 

England right underway after the drinks break, Stokes nudges Murphy off his pads off the first ball of the 38th. They move to 193 now and Stokes is on 42. 

Root is on 27 off 20. Full toss from Marsh and he tickles that away fine with ease. England continue to motor along.

Fifth ball of the 34th from Marsh, Root shapes up for the scoop just as Marsh gets into his delivery stride and nails that shot, goes all the way past fine leg. 

Stokes playing the perfect No.3 here, rotating the strike perfectly well and keeping most of his attempted shots on the ground. He is on 33 off 53 while Root at the other end is on 16 off 17.

Cummins fires one into that fifth stump line, Crawley edges it to second slip while looking to drive. The ball flies into Smith's abdomen and he does well to take the catch.

Crawley c Smith b Cummins 73 (76), England 140/2

Stokes had nailed a catch-with-a-juggle-around the-boundary-rope yesterday, Starc couldn't do it today. Bouncer from Hazlewood for the third ball of that over, Stokes takes it on and the ball takes a top edge. The breeze seems to have helped the ball all the way to the fine leg boundary where Starc is taken by surprise by the drift of it and ends up palming it over the boundary.

Ben Stokes takes his mark and Josh Hazlewood will bowl this first over after Lunch. He is coming in from around the wicket, two slips and a gully for Stokes.

The first session today has been remarkably similar to how the first session of this series had gone down at Edgbaston. Australia were pretty poor with the new ball and England were brilliant in cashing in. The opening stand between Crawley and Duckett was worth 79 runs in 104 balls before the latter fell on 42 off 55. The stand between Stokes and Crawley has now raced to 51 off 48. Crawley has done the bulk of the hitting in this stand. 

They have a lead of 118 runs. Zak Crawley is unbeaten on 71 off 73, Ben Stokes is at the other end on 12 off 24. This session has belonged entirely to England. 

Starc goes short for the fifth ball of the 23rd and Crawley is on to it like a rash. Stands tall and nails the pull behind square.

It has come in just 61 balls, his 10th Test half century. England's lead has swollen to 89 already.

It is Stokes who walked out to bat at No.3. He is on four off five while Crawley has made 42 in 56 balls. 

It has been coming, Starc had started to get some swing and when that happens, there are not many batters who can survive a spell. Full from Starc for the last of the 17th and Duckett goes for a big drive, Starc and Carey appeal, the umpire says no and Cummins reviews. Big spike on ultra edge as ball passes bat and so Duckett is done.

Duckett c Carey b Starc 42 (55), England 79/1 in 17 overs

Crawley and Duckett bossing it at the moment. Ben Stokes is sitting there padded up so it is pretty clear that he is going to walk out No.3 in place of Moeen Ali, whon is still struggling with his groin. Crawley is on 23 off 40, Duckett on 39 off 40. Mitchell Marsh has replaced Josh Hazlewood and bowled three overs with Pat Cummins soldiering on from the other end.

Cummins goes short for the fourth ball of the 9th and Duckett, of course, pulls away. It takes a top edge, flies over slips and goes to the boundary. England have reached 52 runs in 8.4 overs, Australia had crossed 50 only somewhere close to Lunch yesterday. Fair to say we are seeing two teams with slightly different approaches to Test cricket here.

Crawley on nine off 11, Duckett on 19 off 14. Hazlewood and Starc have bowled a lot of half volleys, especially on the legs of the two batters and they have made merry. Hazlewood did a little better off the last two deliveries of the fourth, Crawley had edged the fifth short of gully, then was beaten off the last one. Pat Cummins comes in to replace Starc at the other end for the fifth. Ricky Ponting in the commentary box seems absolutely flummoxed by the dissonance between the lines and lengths that the Aussies are bowling and their field placements. 

Starc overpitches to Duckett for the fifth ball and the batter punches it past mid-on. Then a half volley on leg and Duckett sends it through midwicket.

Well, we shouldn't be surprised in these Bazball days. Starc with a loosener as well first up, wide outside off, no swing, Crawley leans into the cover drive.

Here we go then, The England second innings begins with Zak Crawley facing up to Mitchell Starc with Ben Duckett at the other end. The field is up almost completely, just fine leg is back.

Joe Root's catch to end Marnus Labuschagne's vigil rightly took all the plaudits but perhaps a tiny bit of the credit should go to Stuart Broad as well. Broad had interchanged the bails on Labuschagne's end just before the delivery and then “celebrated with” Usman Khawaja for a second when the wicket fell, in his own words. Considering Broad loves to take up the chance to stand for his version of the spirit of cricket, in which nicking to slips and not walking is fine but running a batter who has wandered out of his crease is not, a lot of Australian and South Asian sounding names on social media did point out if this little action was in keeping with that spirit.