Over-by-over report: Play continues at Edgbaston in the battle for the urn. Follow all the latest action with our team of writers
Khawaja gets closer to fifty with that shot! Skips down and lifts Moeen straight forOver long on. Then a single to point. Head still looks dicey against the spin, coming forward with hard hands to defend.
Philip Cornwall, the master of puppets behind the OBO, sends an email titled: “Jerusalem complaint .” Which did have me worried for a moment. Visa revoked? “It still grates, 14 years later, that when they put Blake’s words on the scoreboard for a triumphant rendition after England won the 2009 Ashes, they put “Oh clouds unfold”, as though Blake was slightly baffled at seeing clouds unfold, instead of the vocative appeal “O clouds unfold”. I did write to the Oval to complain; remarkably, instead of ignoring me as a tedious pedant, someone emailed back blaming the ECB, who had supplied the text.”13.56 BSTStuart Broad is back, rested and restless.
For those still playing at home, that’s Khawaja’s second-highest score in England. He has precisely one half-century.We’re back, fed and satisfied I hope. Moeen Ali starts with a maiden to Travis head, who tries his best to score a couple of times but can’t beat the field.
A mass of work to do for Australia: Khawaja and Head have both gone big in recent times, but both of them will need to repeat that today.Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA
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