Ashes 2025-26.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Carse on a hat-trick! Great morning for England- on a run of 33-5.

Aussies might think they have enough though!

[backfootpunch]

10 minutes to bat before lunch. Enough time for us to be 2 down.

[Arthur Crabtree]

38-6 in fact.

Can't see England blocking. They'll think the win is more likely than a draw. Even though it would be a record chase!

[backfootpunch]

38-6 in fact.

Can't see England blocking. They'll think the win is more likely than a draw. Even though it would be a record chase!

Might as well go for it

Getting back into the series would require a miracle of this scale

Im expecting to see us 230-8 again at best when i wake up

[Arthur Crabtree]

Would be quite something to go from extreme hopelessness all tour... to a record breaking chase!

But set far fewer than seemed likely overnight.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Im expecting to see us 230-8 again at best when i wake up

I'm going 170 ao.

[GarlicJam]

Unbelievably terrible dismissal for Duckett. His head must be shot.

[backfootpunch]

At this point you just have to laugh

Absolute shocker from duckett.

Was like he was giving slip catching practice in the morning

[Arthur Crabtree]

Nightmare series for Duckett!

[meninblue]

Wicket for Pat. Cummins. That was at a proper length but well away from the off-stump line. With 435 to chase and 5 sessions and 2 overs to survive, better test temperamental batsmen have easily done 'well-left' to such deliveries. Ben Duckett opts to poke at it. Early breakthrough for Australia in second over, just before lunch.

England 5/1 in 2 over.

[meninblue]

Key wicket of Joe Root for 39 runs. The formality of winning the test will happen sooner now.

[mikesiva]

Lyon bowled Stokes for five.

Wickets tumbling around Crawley.

Lyon again! Crawley out smartly stumped by Carey for 85.

[mikesiva]

At this point you just have to laugh

Absolute shocker from duckett.

Was like he was giving slip catching practice in the morning

Brook shot selection was not much better.

[Durhamfootman]

Better with the ball by the looks of it. I expected a much bigger run chase than the daunting one they faced

Sadly the batting has been poor again. Duckett still proving hopeless (which has been a theme that I confess has surprised me), but Harry Brook needs a *modded* slap

Another score from the much maligned Crawley who is now only a handful of runs behind the bloke who is on track to surpass the little master, if he doesn't get fed up and jack it all in first

[Durhamfootman]

It might be Duckett who fails to survive the obligatory post ashes cull alongside Pope