Australia will look to seal off the Ashes for the first time in seven years while England will hope to extend the WACA Test match into the final day when play in the third Test match begins on Monday in Perth.
You can follow the live score of this third Ashes Test between Australia and England here and you can also post your comments and feedback below.
Preview: It was the 18th of December in 2006 when Shane Warne grabbed the wicket of Monty Panesar, the last of the English innings in that Perth Test match to leap ahead by a 3-0 margin in the Ashes. With that they had managed to wrest back the urn from their arch-rivals after having lost them in 2005.
Two days before the six-year anniversary, Australia will have the opportunity to repeat the same feat against a knackered English side that dished out one of their worst performances on this tour today.
The third day began with England needing an extraordinary batting performance to remain in the series, following what had been a hard-fought previous day when the honours had been shared.
Instead Ian Bell was dismissed in just the third over of the day and things only went downhill for England after that.
The unbeaten batsman from the previous day, Ben Stokes, failed to survive the pace of Mitchell Johnson and England went from 4/190 to 251 all out. Even more unfortunate for England was the injury that Stuart Broad suffered, off the delivery that also dismissed him.
While the results on the MRI scan are still awaited, it has effectively ruled Broad out of the remainder of this Test match and he may have to take medical opinion before he can feature in the Boxing Day Test match.
A lead of 134 runs being conceded, it only needed Australia to bat out the day to seal a biggish target for England.
David Warner rode his luck to a second Ashes 2013-14 century that pushed Australia to 369 runs in front of the tourists and another 60-90 minutes of batting from the hosts will be all that it could require for them to set up a near-improbable target in the fourth innings.
There’s enough in the pitch to suggest batting, though not impossible, will get only harder.
Already there have been a couple that have taken off after hitting the cracks on the pitch. One of them hit Chris Rogers flush on his chest, another sowed enough seeds in the minds of the English batsmen to trigger off the first innings capitulation.
The situation, frankly, is akin to a tennis player who has lost the first two sets of his best-of-five match and is down two breaks in the third set. A fightback, though within the realms of the possible, is hardly probable.
Join us for the fourth day on Monday and you can follow the live score of this third Ashes between Australia and England from 10.30 am AEST and post your comments below.
Trishen
Guest
Hey JanaI love your demon trappers books nealry finished the second one can't wait for the 3rd do you know how many you have planned for the series?Amazing stuff Jana
Jymbob
Guest
...and lets not forget how very ordinary Henry was himself..
Nick Richardson
Roar Guru
Watto is hopeless. I might be making my debut if they persist with him. I would love to be proven wrong though.
Nick Richardson
Roar Guru
You would hope not
Felix
Guest
Fascinating isn't it, JGK? What odds would have been on offer for Ben Stokes to score the first English tonne of the summer at the WACA? Name your price! A few interesting stats got tossed around too: I'm sure everyone has seen the 'Halfway there' image for Cook and Clarke's cumulative careers now perfectly equaling Tendulkar's. As at start of play today, Warner Haddin and Clarke alone had outscored England
Nudge
Guest
Stop it you blokes, your making me nervous. You can't lose from here. Surely!
expathack
Guest
Bell and Root's DRS decisions are entirely consistent, clear noise, no other possible source of it, out. You blokes are just confusing yourselves because you seem to think hot spot is infallible, that it always shows a spot. As has been explained about a million times, it doesn't. Particularly in this heat. That's why they have snicko as well.
Colin N
Guest
Loving the cautiousness but England have got no chance. I will probably go to bed holding out slight hope (as you do) but will instead wake up at 5 in the morning, turn on the radio only to hear that the game's over.
Blaze
Guest
Sorry must have missed it! Which other decision was not overturned due to snicko with no hotspot? ( seriously, I'm not being sarcastic... Lol)
mickh
Guest
Just nervous not pessimistic!
Slane
Guest
It's controversial because a noise and no hotspot was not enough to overturn a decision earlier in this exact test but a noise and no hotspot was enough to overturn this decision. There is no consistency.
fadida
Guest
Such pessimism! More than 100 years of test cricket and I doubt anyone has scored 250 with 5 wickets in hand on the last day. If they have I bet it wasn't with a 2nd gamer like Stokes in partnership with a wk and so-so tail
mickh
Guest
They had to dismiss the hot spot as a tool for this particular dismissal due to the view being impeded. Therefore the third ump had to go solely by the snicko, hence why the decision was overturned and he was correctly given out. Nothing wrong with hot spot technology. They just need a reverse view camera like you say.
Blaze
Guest
That's fine suneer, however the fact that that they "cannot and should not" doesn't really matter anymore.... They rely on it now for everything regardless if it's right or wrong.... To be honest the front foot checking after the fact every time annoys me more than a right desicion being overturned thru snicko being not being supported by hotspot due to the other angle not being shown which may have shown otherwise... In anycase, if drs is used we need to get used to it all, the same as we get used to bad umpiring decisions with no drs...
Sideline Comm.
Guest
Agreed. Losing from here would be a massive blow to us and boost for them. It could be the biggest turn around ever.
Worlds Biggest
Guest
Fantastic work again, thanks Suneer, a great day of Cricket alround. England showed real mettle and certainly have a sniff. The Aussies must go back to good line and length, leaked a heap today. They must strike early or England could pull off the miracle.
Harry
Guest
Great work again Suneer and good to see I'm not the only one slightly nervous - the two at the crease would have to score 150 and 100 respectively, but thought they were thumping us around easily in that last session. Will need to split them at the new ball and that should be it, highly unlikely but not impossible. The Asus bowlers look spent and will need one more big effort to break the partnership early and it should be job done.
Rob na Champassak
Roar Guru
He was unfortunate to be given out. Don't get me wrong, it was a feckless shot from a batsman with as much depth as a muddy goldfish pond. But that doesn't mean that it's fair for the rules to change when he is appealed against.
Suneer Chowdhary
Roar Guru
Blaze, as I said, the run-out and front-foot no-ball rule fall in similar category - if anything I am okay with umpires deferring it to the third ump to be sure. But for a decision like the lbw or caught, whatever decision the umpire makes has a bearing on what the third ump decides too because the third ump needs to look at whether there's sufficient doubt to overturn it. So, the on-field umpire cannot (should not) be relying on the third ump, instead looking to ensure they get their decision right.
RWB
Guest
Simoc rhymes with..............?