Australia are in deep trouble in the Ashes as England’s batsmen racked up the runs and star fast bowler Mitchell Starc hurt himself diving for a ball.
Australia are now at risk of heading to The Oval for the series finale next week with the scoreline level at 2-2., with the hosts trying to advance the match quickly with rain forecast for the whole of day four.
It came as part of a 178-ball 206-run third-wicket partnership with Root, who was eventually bowled by a Josh Hazlewood ball that stayed at ankle height for 84. While Starc found opener Ben Duckett’s edge early in the innings, for one, and snared makeshift No.3 Moeen Ali pulling for 54, Australia’s bowling was the worst it has been all series.
Notably, Travis Head was also called into the attack in the 23rd over after Australia made the call to leave out frontline spinner Todd Murphy for the match.Crawley reverse-swept Head’s first ball for four, slog-swept the next one for six and later hit the spinner back into the cow-corner crowd to take his figures to 0-48 off six overs.
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