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6:33PM

CLOSE OF PLAY - OVER 90: ENG 267/4 (Burns 125* Stokes 38*)             

Last over of the day. What a day for Burns, one he'll cherish forever. Wasn't always plain sailing but he's ground out a score of 125 not out.

Single for Stokes into the leg side. Burns to face the last ball of the day... pads it away. An excellent day's work. Pats on the back from the Australians and an embrace from Ben Stokes as Burns is warmly clapped off. England trail by 17 heading into Saturday.

6:29PM

OVER 89: ENG 266/4 (Burns 125* Stokes 37*)             

Stokes into the leg side, he wants two but Burns is a bit weary now, having been out there all day. Just the one.

6:25PM

OVER 88: ENG 265/4 (Burns 125* Stokes 36*)           

Rapid over from Lyon that yields just two runs for Burns. One absolute ripper of ball though. Five minutes left in today's play.

The real star of the day.

6:20PM

OVER 87: ENG 263/4 (Burns 123* Stokes 36*)           

Five dots from Siddle and then he throws his hands to his head after Stokes tickles the ball for four down to fine leg. England trail by just 21.

6:15PM

OVER 86: ENG 259/4 (Burns 123* Stokes 32*)         

Fortunate toe-ender from Burns, right through the legs of Paine. Nothing he can do about that. Lyon ends the over though with a pearl - he's back on after a very brief bit of pace with the new ball.

6:11PM

OVER 85: ENG 254/4 (Burns 119* Stokes 31*)         

Edged by Stokes down to third man for a single. Wide from Pattinson! Paine and Warner bemused by that.

Good running for two, topping up Burns' tally.

6:06PM

OVER 84: ENG 250/4 (Burns 117* Stokes 30*)       

Stokes trying to take it to Cummins, which is an interesting decision. Cut by Stokes to third man, that's the 50 partnership, 51 off 109 balls.

Four! Length worked for Stokes and he punches it past mid-off to the rope. Single to end the over and keep the strike, England reach 250.

6:01PM

OVER 83: ENG 243/4 (Burns 117* Stokes 23*)       

Pattinson's back, he's been the best quick bowler Australia have had today. Single clipped away by Stokes. Big shout but it pitched outside leg, I reckon. Will Paine review... yes! Left it late.

And it did indeed pitch outside leg. That's a poor review.

Three more dots from Pattinson.

5:55PM

OVER 82: ENG 242/4 (Burns 117* Stokes 22*)     

One delivery for Cummins and now he takes the new ball. Three slips in. Maiden for Cummins, few scares for Burns.

Quick note on the shirts numbers - I mind them less than I expected. But the ones Australia have are enormous, aren't they?

5:50PM

OVER 81: ENG 242/4 (Burns 117* Stokes 22*)     

Slight hesitation but Burns gets back to the crease in time, diving to make sure. Cry for a catch but that's safe, single for Burns.

Next ball from Lyon stays really low, almost catches Stokes lbw. Sign of things to come over the next few days. Cummins bowling but with the old ball, still. Getting warmed up.

5:47PM

OVER 80: ENG 241/4 (Burns 116* Stokes 22*)   

A second over for Head, wasting no time through his six balls and getting a maiden. Second new ball available but Australia won't take it just yet.

5:42PM

OVER 79: ENG 241/4 (Burns 116* Stokes 22*)   

Shout of catch but it's over mid-on by Burns on the sweep for two. Lyon rattling through over number 24.

Lovely shot of Edgbaston after Burns' hundred.

5:40PM

OVER 78: ENG 239/4 (Burns 114* Stokes 22*) 

Head now having a bowl. When does Warner get a go? Bancroft?

Burns punishes him with a boundary, smashed to deep cover, before a single. Stokes adds two. Runs flowing now.

5:38PM

OVER 77: ENG 232/4 (Burns 109* Stokes 20*) 

Five dots and then Lyon gets clubbed for four! Bit of top edge but it's safe behind square.

5:33PM

OVER 76: ENG 228/4 (Burns 109* Stokes 16*)

Now to bowl... Wade! Hope England have prepared for his right-arm medium pace. First ball single, second ball well, well wide.

Full toss goes for a single. In the air by Burns but it's over mid-on! Stops short of the rope, adds two runs. Got away with that. More runs, worked into the space on the leg side for two more by Burns.

5:29PM

OVER 75: ENG 221/4 (Burns 104* Stokes 15*)

Burns single, then Stokes goes after Lyon, sweep shot for four runs. England trail by 63 runs.

Email in from Myles Barraclough​ - I would, absolutely, agree that there has to be a possibility this could happen.

5:26PM

OVER 74: ENG 216/4 (Burns 103* Stokes 11*)

Single blocked away by Burns. And that's the only run off the over from Siddle.

5:24PM

OVER 73: ENG 215/4 (Burns 102* Stokes 11*)               

Up in the air for a bit but it flies over the slips, Stokes earning four runs. Single for Burns too.  This is Lyon's 21st over.

5:14PM

OVER 72: ENG 210/4 (Burns 101* Stokes 7*)             

Good cut by Stokes, out the middle, goes for four past backward point, his first boundary.

England now trailing by 78 as we take a drinks break.

5:10PM

OVER 71: ENG 205/4 (Burns 100* Stokes 3*)             

Stokes nudges a single, almighty roar as Burns returns to the strike to face five balls from Lyon.

He's done it! Quick single, the run out will be checked but Burns is safely home, 100 from 223 balls. Patient, diligent knock for his first century. Well played that man.

5:06PM

OVER 70: ENG 203/4 (Burns 99* Stokes 2*)           

Stokes waits, waits, then pushes a single into the leg side. Burns versus Siddle, two balls left in the over. Maybe this is the moment...

Bat on ball but can't find the space he needs in that leg side. Blocked by a dive in the off side! He stays on 99.

5:01PM

OVER 69: ENG 202/4 (Burns 99* Stokes 1*)           

Lyon back on. All Burns needs is a single. Bails are off but he's well in. And again! Huge pressure from Lyon and Paine. Maiden! Burns has to wait.

4:59PM

OVER 68: ENG 202/4 (Burns 99* Stokes 1*)         

Not given as a wide but that's a bit loose by Cummins, who's coming round the wicket. Then Burns flicks a four to fine leg! Moves to 98, blimey.

He moves back to over the wicket (sensibly) and Burns squeezes through a single, mis-field but no second run, he's on 99.

4:54PM

OVER 67: ENG 197/4 (Burns 94* Stokes 1*)         

Lyon back in but that's short and wide and Burns obliges, cutting that for a single, his first run for 37 minutes. Now Stokes off the mark with a single.

Better from Lyon, pressuring that outside edge. Another single for Burns, though.

4:50PM

OVER 66: ENG 194/4 (Burns 92* Stokes 0*)       

Burns sees out the rest of the over. Was some catch by Bancroft, low to his right. Interesting position now for England with Stokes at the crease.

4:47PM

WICKET! Buttler c Bancroft b Cummins 5

Edged and gone! Cummins has been outstanding since the ball change and finds the edge, well taken by Bancroft out wide in the slip cordon. FOW 194/4

4:43PM

OVER 65: ENG 194/3 (Burns 92* Buttler 5*)       

Buttler able to get off strike with a single. This won't be helping Burns' nerves - he's now faced over 200 balls and has been on 92 for an age. England trail by 90.

4:38PM

OVER 64: ENG 193/3 (Burns 92* Buttler 4*)     

Burns with two play-and-misses. Cummins on top, nice swing away. Cracking maiden, all told. Whole dynamic of the innings has changed.

4:34PM

OVER 63: ENG 193/3 (Burns 92* Buttler 4*)     

Swinging away but Buttler eats that up from Pattinson, crashing it through the covers for four.

4:29PM

WICKET! Denly lbw b Pattinson 18

Big old shout for lbw and Denly's walking, no review! The change of ball works for Australia. Smart decision not to review, he was plumb. FOW 189/3

4:28PM

OVER 62: ENG 189/2 (Burns 92* Denly 18*)   

Steady leaves for Burns, as Cummins gets a maiden. These two are basically start again. Look at the change in swing, up to 2.9 degress from the 0.4 average.

4:22PM

OVER 61: ENG 189/2 (Burns 92* Denly 18*)   

Long, long old stoppage to check on the condition of the ball. And it gets changed for a new ball. Denly responds by sending a Pattinson delivery cruising past mid off to the boundary.

That's better, swinging in, Denly does well to get out the way. New ball's doing a bit, chaps.

4:15PM

OVER 60: ENG 185/2 (Burns 92* Denly 14*) 

Quick from Cummins, up to 88mph. Nice clip to the leg side for Burns for two.

And that's a delightful cover drive for four! Burns in the mood. Beats the diving fielder, punishing the bad ball. Into the 90s. Australia's lead is now under 100.

4:10PM

OVER 59: ENG 179/2 (Burns 86* Denly 14*) 

More containment from Lyon, single for Burns as he moves to 86. Nervous yet?

4:07PM

OVER 58: ENG 178/2 (Burns 85* Denly 14*)

Single for Burns takes him past his previous best score of 84 for England. Cummins then whistles one through, 87mph. Just one off the over.

4:03PM

OVER 57: ENG 177/2 (Burns 84* Denly 14*)

Final session underway and more from Lyon, or best in the game Gazzzzz as Tim Paine refers to him.

Boundary for Denly! Goes after it through the covers, lovely. Good over for England, three singles before that.

Here's Deryk King in the comments on Root's conversion rate...

3:42PM

TEA - OVER 56: ENG 170/2 (Burns 82* Denly 9*)

Shot. Denly with his first boundary, swept through the covers. Six off the over for the new man in, after clipping two to the leg side.

Last ball before tea is a good one but looked a little high as it made contact with Denly. Paine walking off, not interested in a review. Wise move.

England should be happy with that, Root the only casualty and Burns ticking along. Back in a bit.

3:36PM

OVER 55: ENG 164/2 (Burns 82* Denly 3*) 

Single cut away to point by Burns. Denly vs Lyon, two balls to go: off the pad (outside) but drops short of silly point. Then angles in and he clips it for one to keep the strike.

3:33PM

OVER 54: ENG 162/2 (Burns 81* Denly 2*) 

Siddle on track for a maiden until Burns squirts a single to third man (where there is now a fielder). Belter for a last ball, great length, moving away. Siddle's impressed.

3:28PM

OVER 53: ENG 161/2 (Burns 80* Denly 2*)

Burns into the 80s. Lyon coming round the wicket after three balls, little bit fidgety. One off the over.

3:25PM

OVER 52: ENG 160/2 (Burns 79* Denly 2*)

Denly's away, well-timed into the leg side, won't run all the way but he gets two.

Here's an update from Isabelle Westbury at Edgbaston.

3:21PM

OVER 51: ENG 158/2 (Burns 79* Denly 0*)

Really good again from Lyon before Burns opens up his body and cuts one sweetly away for four to end the over.

Root banging the glass of the steps as he walks off.

3:16PM

WICKET! Root c&b Siddle 57

Leg bye off Burns into the space towards fine leg. Siddle's back. Nice figures so far after 13 overs, 0-22.

And now it's even better! Root caught and bowled! Driven back down the ground but up in the air enough for Siddle to snatch that one-handed. FOW 154/2

3:12PM

OVER 49: ENG 153/1 (Burns 75* Root 57*)                               

Garry's back and one gets through! Beats everybody for a bye. Crikey.

3:07PM

OVER 48: ENG 152/1 (Burns 75* Root 57*)                             

Now that's his 50, Root's 42nd in Test cricket. Flicked behind down the leg side for a boundary.

But next ball he crashes the ball onto his own foot. No review from the Aussies as Root hobbles around for a bit. Pad (outside the line) to bat to foot in a split second.

Poor throw allows England to rush through for a second run but it would have been a run out had the throw been on target from Khawaja. England bring up 150. Root then glances the ball away for two more, better running. Eight off the over.

3:02PM

OVER 47: ENG 144/1 (Burns 75* Root 49*)                             

Drive from Burns blocked well by Wade at cover, just a single. Now that was a controlled edge by Root (I reckon), timed it late always low to the ground, through the gap between the slips and gully.

Half a shout from Pattinson but Root rushes through for a single... nope, leg bye. Still on 49.

2:57PM

OVER 46: ENG 137/1 (Burns 74* Root 44*)                           

Half a chance for the man at gully, diving to his left, as Root blocks one away but it drops to the ground. Root uncomfortable there but gets three.

Better shape from Cummins, before he forces Burns to duck a bouncer.

2:53PM

OVER 45: ENG 134/1 (Burns 74* Root 41*)                           

Single for Root, nudges it towards backward point. Pattinson with a touch of swing away off the last delivery, now 1-34 after his 11 overs.

Alright there, pal?

2:49PM

OVER 44: ENG 133/1 (Burns 74* Root 40*)                         

Afternoon everyone. Not to lavish the praise on England or anything but this is going, well, fine at the moment.

Thick edge and Burns finds the gap in the cordon again. Four runs. He's up to 70. All Cummins can do is smile. Well-timed drive though into the off side by Burns and that's a fine four, despite the efforts of the fielders.

Maybe it's because he wasn't around during the World Cup, but now Bumble's back I've had this masterclass impression of Bob Willis stuck in my head all morning.

2:41PM

OVER 43: ENG 124/1 (Burns 66* Root 39*)                         

Australia take an age to discuss the state of the ball, then Pattinson delays further by having a conference about the field. At last the game resumes. Burns has to play at only one of the first four and blocks it, then takes a single off a misfield at square mid-on. Root ends the over before drinks after summoned with a single worked off his pads to fine leg.

And with that, here's Ben Coles to take you through the rest of the day.

2:37PM

OVER 42: ENG 122/1 (Burns 65* Root 38*)                       

Pat 'Stan' Cummins replaces Siddle at the Birmingham End. Hasn't been himself today. Root square drives an overpitched delivery fine of point for four to raise the hundred partnership off 206 balls. No tempting of fate here, but Root's judgment of line and length from the quicks so far is as sound as it was against the white ball earlier in the summer. Australia are trying to get the ball changed. Nothing doing yet.

2:30PM

OVER 41: ENG 118/1 (Burns 65* Root 34*)                       

Pattinson replaces Lyon and overpitches to Root who creams a wonderful midwicket flick in front of the square leg umpire for four. Why take Lyon off? To have a bowl from the other end? Root tucks a single off his legs and Pattinson comes round to Burns. He scissors his bat down from fifth slip to slice two through gully then does it again, this time with a squirty drive through the same area for four.

2:25PM

OVER 40: ENG 107/1 (Burns 59* Root 29*)                       

Burns flashes hard at a drive and edges the ball over the slips for four. Breaks the drip-drip of Siddle dot balls but it was a chancy stroke. Sir Ian Botham, inevitably, considers it a risk worth taking.

2:21PM

OVER 39: ENG 103/1 (Burns 55* Root 29*)                       

Root tickles the daintiest of glances to use the turn and ease four down to fine leg. The stroke takes England to three figures for the loss of one wicket. Root munches a glorious, checked off-drive off the next ball and they run two as Cummins chases it down.

2:16PM

OVER 38: ENG 97/1 (Burns 55* Root 23*)                     

"C'mon boys. A hundred for three, eh?" someone shouts on the 'one [wicket] brings' two principle. Siddle can't make the breakthrough but racks up a fourth maiden. Burns lines up his defences soundly.

2:14PM

OVER 37: ENG 97/1 (Burns 55* Root 23*)                     

Three singles off Lyon, two for Burns with a drive and a cut, one for Root, a back foot cuff to mid-on that had to be run hard ... and was.

2:11PM

OVER 36: ENG 94/1 (Burns 53* Root 22*)                     

A third maiden for Siddle. Root positive in defence. One wayward delivery is sprayed down the legside. Siddle dives and manages to stop it but hurts his thumb in the process. he gives it a shake, winces and puts his glove back on. Aussie ticker.

2:07PM

OVER 35: ENG 94/1 (Burns 53* Root 22*)                   

Root comes down the pitch to Lyon and whips it through midwicket for four. Pat Cummins gave chase from backward square and seemed to be catching it up but lets it through to the rope. The crowd in front of him in the Eric Hollies immediately rises to its feet and treats him to a lusty jeer. A tip and run from Root at the end of the over farms the strike. England have rotated their way through a tense situation throughout this partnership, something Australia were unable to achieve yesterday.

2:02PM

OVER 34: ENG 89/1 (Burns 53* Root 17*)                   

Each umpire has made five 'errors' so far in the game, Sky informs us. Some more egregious than others. Root, glances Siddle for two then  check-drives two through cover and hares a hair-raising single after tipping and running to the same area.

2:00PM

NOT OUT

He had hit it. Another decision is overturned.

1:59PM

England review

Root lbw b Siddle Root thinks he's hit it.

1:58PM

OVER 34: ENG 84/1 (Burns 53* Root 12*)                   

Fifty for Rory Burns, his first in England, brought up when he fiddles fine round the corner for four. Up goes the bat but the helmet stays on and it's straight back to work. Lyon won't let him settle, a big dipper with tremendous overspin imparts the bounce to catch the splice and pops again to vacant silly point.

1:55PM

OVER 33: ENG 80/1 (Burns 49* Root 12*)                   

Siddle forces Root on to his toes and the batsman has time to wait for the ball and chop a single in front of point for two. Burns, two short of his fifty, tries to find gaps at point and midwicket but doesn't succeed, then whips a single off his pads to move one closer.

1:52PM

OVER 32: ENG 78/1 (Burns 48* Root 11*)                   

Terrific from Rory Burns, gorging on the width and bounce to carve four in front of point. Australia having no silly point saves him as he inside-edges the big over-spun one into his pad whence it pops up invitingly into the gap. Shane Warne is (metaphorically) pulling his hair out.

1:48PM

OVER 31: ENG 74/1 (Burns 44* Root 11*)                 

Peter Siddle opens the fifth session of the match from the Birmingham End to Burns. The opener defends a couple, leaves one then opens the face to steer three down to third man. Root is a gazelle and pushes Burns hard to complete the third. Fifty partnership for the second wicket. Lyon will bowl from the Pavilion End, you'd expect.

1:27PM

Lunchtime update from the ground

Isabelle Westbury reports:

1:14PM

Lunch: ENG 71/1

England go into lunch at Edgbaston trailing Australia's first innings score by 213 runs, having lost the wicket of Jason Roy for 10. Rory Burns, the Surrey opener, has defied his critics so far with a gutsy, unbeaten 41 but he would have been given out on review had Australia queried the umpire's decision to give him not out when struck on the pad by Nathan Lyon. The ball seemed to be sliding down the legside and it's understandable why they chose not to send it upstairs.

Joe Root, the England captain, had an extraordinarily close shave when given out caught behind. He immediately reviewed the decision and ball-tracking plus ultra-edge showed that the ball had actually kissed of-stump, forcing the bail out of its groove before it nestled softly back in place. The-second-wicket partnership fought on until lunch after the two scares and will resume at 1.40pm.

1:07PM

OVER 29: ENG 71/1 (Burns 41* Root 11*)                 

Cummins will squeeze another over in before lunch and stats over the wicket to Burns who lets one go through to the keeper then tucks a single off his ribs to backward square. Paine posts another slip for Root - four there now. The England captain defends the first, lets the next two lifters go through to Paine, and plays a late defensive from the crease towards point to march off with only one wicket down for the session. Top grinding against a high-quality attack. And an entire series' worth of luck, too. They've put on 49 for the second wicket.

1:01PM

OVER 28: ENG 70/1 (Burns 40* Root 11*)                 

Vociferous appeal from Australia when Root misses the sweep and is hit on the knee roll by Lyon. He was struck outside the line and Australia save their review. Root is playing him off the back foot to counter the overspin yet it is an approach fraught with danger and dependent on lightning-quick handwork. So far ... Maiden.

12:58PM

OVER 27: ENG 70/1 (Burns 40* Root 11*)                 

Lovely stroke from Burns, the best he has played at home in his Test career. Cummins wants him to drive but not off middle and off-stump and the opener rinses it through mid-on for four.

12:55PM

OVER 26: ENG 66/1 (Burns 36* Root 11*)               

England scamper two byes off a tight Lyon over who plays late and too frequently on the back foot for comfort. The ball is turning alarmingly for Lyon and, with his customary dip and overspin, is going to be a constant menace today and in the fourth innings.

12:52PM

Wood update

Nick Houltreports

12:52PM

OVER 25: ENG 64/1 (Burns 36* Root 11*)               

Cummins, who didn't bowl well this morning, returns. He is the No1-ranked Teat bowler of the moment but doesn't look comfortable with this round-the-wicket policy, trying to lure Burns on to the rocks of driving away from his body. After Root tucks a single off his legs, Burns is served one on his pads, too, and whips it behind square for four. Good shot, poor ball. Another 'ooooh' from the keeper-captain when Burns leaves on length and the ball zips over off-stump. Sound judgment but not good for the spectators' heart.

12:47PM

OVER 24: ENG 59/1 (Burns 32* Root 10*)               

Lyon returns and exposes Burns' tendency to play with the bat in front of the pad, reading the turn off the pitch and trying to adjust quickly. One defensive squirts short of bat-pad which brings a strangled 'ooh' from Tim Paine but he ends the over more in control with a whip through midwicket for two.

12:44PM

OVER 23: ENG 57/1 (Burns 30* Root 10*)               

Pattinson slants one across Burns from round the wicket and Paine can't collect it cleanly. England run two byes. Michael Atherton praise his more compact approach and he demonstrates it by climbing on to tiptoe to cuff a single into the onside. Tough and tense morning so far, The match on a knife-edge.

12:39PM

OVER 22: ENG 53/1 (Burns 29* Root 9*)             

And these aren't Zing bails, just your regular ash. Siddle delivers his second maiden of this six-over spell to Burns who defends with the middle of his bat, covering his off-stump.

Breaking news Mark Wood has been ruled out of the series. He will have surgery on the damaged cartilage in his left knee forthwith and hopes to be ready for the tours to New Zealand and South Africa.

12:36PM

OVER 21: ENG 53/1 (Burns 29* Root 9*)             

The luck of the Tyke. The ball hit the stumps quite hard. How on earth the bail fell back into position baffles, bemuses and frustrates the Australians.

12:34PM

NOT OUT

The ball clipped the stumps not the bat, the bail lifted but dropped back in its groove.

12:32PM

England review

Root c Paine b Pattinson 

12:28PM

OVER 20: ENG 51/1 (Burns 29* Root 7*)           

No, Lyon coming off was not to let him change ends. At least not yet. Siddle continues round the wicket to Burns. Full and wide to persuade him to drive - Burns pokes it past point for two to bring up England's fifty. Australia will have watched Burns two innings of six at Lord's and it is informing their approach today, trying to drag him across his stumps and driving or defending ones that are too wide to bother with. So far, though, he has left well. He has not been led into temptation.

12:23PM

OVER 19: ENG 49/1 (Burns 27* Root 7*)           

Nathan Lyon is replaced (to change ends?) by James Pattinson. Root plays another controlled push to cover for a single. It's quite tight and Burns was slow off the mark but they beat the fielder. Burns decides to test Root's sharpness out of the block with a flick to square leg. This one's much closer to the fielder who shies at the stumps and misses. A direct hit would have been touch and go. Broad wobbled the seam impressively yesterday and Pattinson has done the same this morning, bowling one to Root that sears away, ripping almost square as Root rocks on to the back foot and leaves it well alone.

12:19PM

OVER 18: ENG 47/1 (Burns 26* Root 6*)           

Root rotates with a push through point for a single. Siddle comes round to Burns. I am sure over the wicket from someone as accurate as the Gippsland Roger Crab would trouble Burns more. He defends a couple with an angled bat and lets two thud into Paine's gloves.

12:14PM

OVER 17: ENG 46/1 (Burns 26* Root 5*)           

Shane Warne thinks Rory Burns is a sitting duck for Lyon because he doesn't have a coherent plan and the sweep isn't working. He defends a couple competently then squirts one off a bottom edge past slip which scuttles down to third man for four.

12:11PM

OVER 16: ENG 42/1 (Burns 22* Root 5*)         

Siddle's relentless accuracy keeps Root chained at the striker's, either playing defensively or leaving. Maiden.

12:09PM

OVER 15: ENG 42/1 (Burns 22* Root 5*)         

Reprieve for England when Burns is trapped by Lyon. The ball did look as if it was sliding down so they didn't review but ball-tracking would have overturned the decision had they gone to DRS.

Earlier Burns had clipped two through mdiwicket and after the appeal, tapped a single apiece.

12:02PM

OVER 14: ENG 38/1 (Burns 19* Root 4*)       

Hard yakka for England this morning but they have done well to rotate the strike and punish anything overpitched. Burns drives a full one from Siddle through mid-off for three. Wade, the wicketkeeper-batsman turned batsman chase sit down and saves the single by the rope with a dive and a relay return.  Root is struck by Siddle's nip-backer bu it's high and going down despite Siddle's pantomimed appeal. Drink.

12:00PM

OVER 13: ENG 35/1 (Burns 16* Root 4*)       

Nathan 'Gary the Goat' Lyon almost bags Root with the first ball, a huge off-break that bites and turns in. Root leaves it and is relieved to hear the ball whistle past but not kiss his off-stump.  Root check-drives a single to cover for one, tip and run style and leaves Burns with the rest of the over. Lyon is giving it a rip and the ball is ragging. Burns looks a little at sea with his footwork but survives. Lyon's line from round the wicket to the leftie suggests he fancies bowling him round his legs.

11:54AM

Update from Edgbaston

Isabelle Westbury reports:

11:53AM

OVER 12: ENG 33/1 (Burns 15* Root 3*)     

The Victorian vegan starts round the wicket to Burns. He has three slips. Burns squeezes two through gully as he jabs his bat down from the idiosyncratic backlift and defends the next three squarely. Siddle is up at 85mph and elicits the inside-edge from a Burns forward defensive that crashes into his pad. The bowler strangles his appeal.

Double change - Nathan Lyon is coming on, too. Stuart Broad said this morning that there had been no swing but he thought the pitch would turn.

11:47AM

OVER 11: ENG 31/1 (Burns 13* Root 3*)     

Some short stuff at last from Cummins to Burns, who pinched the strike off the last ball of Pattinson's over with a leg-bye. He ducks late and the ball skims the top of his lid and goes for four leg-byes. The protocol now demands a new helmet so there will be a short delay while batsman and his hat are given the once-over. He is passed fit, his helmet is retired and Australia post a short leg. Burns rises en pointe and pushes a single on his tiptoes, playing tip and run to cover. Well played.

Root plays out the over, mistiming an on-drive and digging out another to point. First change, Peter Siddle is coming on for Pattinson.

11:41AM

OVER 10: ENG 26/1 (Burns 12* Root 3*)     

Root fences after a jaffa from Pattinson that straightens outside off and to the relief of the home supporters in the crowd does not reach it.

A light aircraft flies overhead pulling a banner reading 'Arise Sir Ben Stokes'.

Root whips two through square leg, shovelling it round the corner with his bottom hand, then toes a drive back up the pitch that falls only a few centimetres short of the bowler who bends sharply in his followthrough. Root pushes a single to cover but the discordant sound confirms that the revious delivery splintered his bat and he has to call for another piece of English willow.

11:36AM

OVER 9: ENG 22/1 (Burns 12* Root 0*)   

Maiden from Cummins to Burns who defends three, leaves two judiciously and is clattered on the top flap from round the wicket. Cummins goes up to appeal but it's way too high and Australia sagely do not follow it up with a visit to Dr DRS.

11:31AM

OVER 8: ENG 22/1 (Burns 12* Root 0*)   

It was a fine delivery from Pattinson, quick, heavy bounce, taking it up towards the splice. Enter Root who leaves the outswinger, punches down to mid-on off the toe and leaves another outswinger. Pattinson slants one across him and Root attempts to tickle it but doesn't get bat on it and remains on nought. England need a Miandad knock from young Joeved today.

11:24AM

Wicket!!

Roy c Smith b Pattinson 10 Those hard hands against an aggressive bowler hitting a fourth-stump line nick off low to second slip. Roy's adaptation, pulling the bat into his body, does take the pace off it but not enough. It just carried and Smith scooped it with his knuckles on the grass. FOW 22/1

11:24AM

OVER 7: ENG 22/0 (Burns 12* Roy 10*) 

Cummins, who has been too floaty when bowling full from round the wicket, comes over and serves one up on Burns' pads. The opener clips it lustily behind square leg for four. Sweetly timed even though it was a pie.  He has come over the wicket to slant it across the left-hander and try to upset his bearings but he judges the line very well and leaves three tempters after defending a couple of the straighter ones.

11:18AM

OVER 6: ENG 18/0 (Burns 8* Roy 10*) 

Another edge from Roy as he pushes forward to Pattinson but the ball drops about a metre short of second slip. He doesn't have soft hands but he tries to correct that by pulling the bat into his pad which takes the pace off. Pattinson spears the next one into middle and off and Roy jabs down hurriedly to kill it. Good over and a maiden.

11:13AM

OVER 5: ENG 18/0 (Burns 8* Roy 10*) 

Cummins gives Burns some width, very full again and the opener stretches and drills a drive off a thick edge behind point for four. Cummins drags back his length and straightens one away from Burns who didn't follow it.

Burns is wearing a chest pad but they're giving him nothing short so far. They want him to drive and Cummins persists mainly with a full-length. After Lord's Burns seems to have located his off-stump again and is leaving astutely so far rather than being dragged across.

11:09AM

OVER 4: ENG 14/0 (Burns 4* Roy 10*)

James Pattinson resumes as Cummins new-ball partner from last night. Paine has taken out fourth slip and pays the price as Roy drives hard and nicks it at catchable height through that exact gap for four.  Pattinson gives him a Paddington Bear stare that should be directed at his captain. Second morning of a Test. Competitive first-innings score and an attacking batsman in only his second Test and Paine takes out the slip. Very poor, Reeves. The next ball hoops away, Roy leaves it and defends the next three securely, all on a fourth-stump line.

11:03AM

OVER 3: ENG 10/0 (Burns 4* Roy 6*)

Jerusalem greets the first ball of day two which Burns defends solidly. Cummins has four slips and a gully and is pitching it up from round the wicket, hitting 88mph. Burns leaves the second and stuns the third with an angled bat. Very full length so far. Burns digs out an attempted yorker, spooning it on the half-volley to short cover. A good, positive, some would say Smith-esque pronounced leave from Burns ends the over, a maiden.

11:00AM

The players are out

Pat Cummins has the ball in his hand. Burns to face ...

10:52AM

Stuart Broad on yesterday's reprise of the 2015 pose

It wasn't because it was a spectacular catch from Rory Burns - it wasn't, it was a dolly. He was surprised because he hadn't clocked that Joe Root had moved Burns there and thought Tim Paine's hook was sailing for four.

10:44AM

No definitive news on Anderson

But he is at the ground and has been jogging on the outfield with the physio and is currently batting in the nets.

10:41AM

Good morning

Had the great, good fortune to  be in the crowd yesterday at Edgbaston, not among the glitterati of our trade in the air-conditioned, laden-buffet, luxury of the press box but under an unforgiving sun in the roofless Bob Wyatt stand. There was a remarkable atmosphere, as there always is there whether  it's a majority India-supporting crowd or its more traditional pro-England bearpit.

Chris Woakes and Stuart Broad were terrific, England fielded well and their only failings were the result of Jimmy Anderson's injury. Ben Stokes, who took up the burden, couldn't fin a consistent good length and Steve Smith simply waited for the bad ball and whipped it through midwicket or drove it crisply off the back foot. It was a magnificent innings, his movements more exaggerated than ever but at the point of interception his blade is true and firm. We all felt his management of overs with Peter Siddle and Nathan Lyon, exposing them for at most a couple of balls an over, was something Joe Root should have done more to squeeze. It's all very well bowling dry at him for four balls so he can't hit a boundary but if you can't cut off the single, it leaves only one attempt per over at the No10 and No11, both of whom were solid in defence anyway. Adil Rashid may have been the ideal bowler to close that innings out.

One nagging memory would not stop tormenting me last night. Australia's innings - not in its details but in general - had a distinct whiff of the Gabba in 2013 when Stuart Broad took six wickets and England had Australia at 132 for six but Brad Haddin, on that occasion, held the tail together and they hung in to make 295. Australia then bowled England out for 136 and the Test and series were gone.

Encouragingly for England, both batsmen found the middle of the bat in the two overs they faced. Someone is going to have to grind it out today and allow the irrepressible strokemakers to be the adornments rather than the foundations of England's response. Two Surrey fans were sitting in front of our group yesterday and when Roy and Burns came out, and no doubt aided by their liquid intake, professed themselves not to have a worry in the world. "Surrey will take care of this," one of them said. "You've got absolutely nothing to worry about." They were right last night ... I hope they are as confident, sober, this morning

9:45AM

Day Two of the Ashes - England look to respond to Australia's 284

Steve Smith stared down a depleted England attack and a hostile Edgbaston crowd yesterday as his superb century single-handedly rescued Australia on the opening day of the 2019 Ashes.

The first Test would have kicked off with England seemingly in the box seat had Smith not hit a brilliant 144, more than half of his team's 284 all out and a distant dream after they limped to 122 for eight.

Sixteen months after watching their careers collapse in disgrace following the sandpaper scandal, Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft all returned to boos, jeers and brickbats from the notoriously raucous Birmingham crowd, but while the latter pair faltered Smith flourished.

England had one hand tied behind their back from the moment record wicket-taker James Anderson was struck down by a right calf injury that restricted him to one four-over spell, and he faces an uncertain future in the match and the series.

After Smith's tour de force was ended, Rory Burns and Jason Roy were left to face two awkward overs at the close but held their nerve to reach 10 without loss.

Tweet of the day

Quote of the day

Steve Smith admitted there was a period during his ball-tampering ban where he wondered if he would ever play cricket again:

Snap shot

Tim Paine's assertion that he "could name you 15" more intimidating cricket grounds than Edgbaston seemed to affront a number of observers and laid down the gauntlet to the Hollies Stand and the Barmy Army in particular. There was an air of pantomime to the barracking which greeted Warner, Bancroft and Smith to the crease while squares of sandpaper were brandished in the Hollies Stand on Warner's dismissal. A 'cheat, cheat, cheat' chant was readily used to the trio, the legacy of last year's ball-tampering scandal which created what must have been, at the very least, an uncomfortable atmosphere. While Warner and Bancroft registered single-figure scores, Smith had the last laugh.

Stat attack

Blocking out the boo-boys, Smith registered his 24th Test ton and ninth against England, while his Bradman-esque average of 90.09 in the first innings of a match is scarcely believable in this day and age.

Anderson car woe

England will have everything crossed that Anderson's latest calf injury will not keep him sidelined for too long. It was the culmination of a dreadful few hours for England's leading Test wicket-taker of all-time, whose car was crashed into outside the team hotel at the start of the day, albeit without the 37-year-old in it, according to Jonathan Agnew.

Dar and Wilson have day to forget

Neither Aleem Dar nor Joel Wilson will look back on Thursday with any fondness, technology highlighting a number of blunders from the on-field umpires. Warner avoided a golden duck despite nicking Stuart Broad before being given out lbw off the same bowler - though ball-tracking showed the delivery would have slid down leg side. Chris Woakes overturned not out decisions to see off Usman Khawaja and Matthew Wade while, in-between, Smith successfully reviewed being given out lbw off Broad. James Pattinson also neglected to send a leg before decision upstairs, had he done so he would have been reprieved, while a big inside edge spared Peter Siddle an early dismissal.

Top of the shots

Once Australia had subsided to 122 for eight midway through the afternoon session, having lost their last five wickets for 23 runs, English hopes would have been high of a quick conclusion to the innings. Step forward Siddle. Included at the expense of Josh Hazlewood for just his third Test in nearly three years, the 34-year-old Siddle displayed the application and grit that had been lacking from a number of his colleagues up the order. His 44 was not just a stodgy innings, a cover drive for four off Broad a stroke many top-order batsmen would have been proud of.

Money ball

The competition for an Ashes bowling berth among both teams is fierce. Perhaps that explains why Broad was bowling on a practice strip 15 minutes before the start. He was certainly purposeful in the early stages, statistics showing he was bowling fuller and faster than he has done for many years. Smith's tour de force may temper his pride at figures of 5-86 but Broad finished Australia's innings with a superb yorker that Smith was unable to hit across the line, the ball clattering into the stumps - the England seamer's 100th Ashes wicket.