Australia vs England: 3rd Ashes Test, Day 3 live scores, blog

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Second Innings: England

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27th December, 2021

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Match Complete

England

68 all out

Australia win by an innings and 14 runs

1/8 (3.4)	*Green	O: 27.4
6/7 (4.0)	Boland	RR:2.16	Buttler	5 (14)

b. Green	27.4 10/68	Anderson 2(4)
c. Labuschagne b. Boland	26.3 9/65	Robinson 0(2)
c+b. Boland	26.1 8/65	Wood 0(3)
c. Warner b. Boland	24.4 7/61	Root 28(59)
lbw. Boland	22.5 6/60	Bairstow 5(18)
b. Starc	16.5 5/46	Stokes 11(16)
b. Boland	10.5 4/22	Leach 0(2)
c. Carey b. Boland	10.3 3/22	Hameed 7(31)
lbw. Starc	4.5 2/7	Malan 0(1)
c. Carey b. Starc	4.4 1/7	Crawley 5(16)

First Innings: Australia	267 all out	RR: 2.63	O: 87.5
First Innings: England	185 all out	RR: 2.44	O: 65.1

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First Innings: England	185 all out	RR: 2.44	O: 65.1

Batsmen	R	B	4s	6s	SR
H. Hameed c. Carey b. Cummins	0	10	0	0	0.00
Z. Crawley c. Green b. Cummins	12	25	0	0	48.00
D.J. Malan c. Warner b. Cummins	14	66	1	0	21.21
J.E. Root* c. Carey b. Starc	50	82	4	0	60.98
B.A. Stokes c. Lyon b. Green	25	60	2	1	41.67
J.M. Bairstow c. Green b. Starc	35	75	3	0	46.67
J.C. Buttler+ c. Boland b. Lyon	3	11	0	0	27.27
M.A. Wood lbw. Boland	6	15	0	0	40.00
O.E. Robinson c. Boland b. Lyon	22	26	3	0	84.62
M.J. Leach c. Smith b. Lyon	13	18	0	1	72.22
J.M. Anderson not out	0	4	0	0	0.00
Extras (b 0, lb 4, w 0, nb 1)	5
Total	185

Bowlers	O	M	R	W	Ec
M.A. Starc	15.0	3	54	2	3.60
P.J. Cummins	15.0	2	36	3	2.40
S.M. Boland	13.0	2	48	1	3.69
C.D. Green	8.0	4	7	1	0.88
N.M. Lyon	14.1	3	36	3	2.54

First Innings: Australia	267 all out	RR: 2.63	O: 87.5

Batsmen	R	B	4s	6s	SR
M.S. Harris c. Root b. Anderson	76	189	7	0	40.21
D.A. Warner c. Crawley b. Anderson	38	42	5	0	90.48
N.M. Lyon c. Buttler b. Robinson	10	22	2	0	45.45
M. Labuschagne c. Root b. Wood	1	14	0	0	7.14
S.P.D. Smith b. Anderson	16	31	1	0	51.61
T.M. Head c. Root b. Robinson	27	48	2	0	56.25
C.D. Green lbw. Leach	17	63	2	0	26.98
A.T. Carey+ c. Buttler b. Stokes	19	43	0	0	44.19
P.J. Cummins* c. Hameed b. Anderson	21	32	2	0	65.62
M.A. Starc not out	24	37	1	0	64.86
S.M. Boland c. Crawley b. Wood	6	11	0	0	54.55
Extras (b 2, lb 4, w 1, nb 5)	12
Total	267

Bowlers	O	M	R	W	Ec
J.M. Anderson	23.0	10	33	4	1.43
O.E. Robinson	19.2	4	64	2	3.31
M.A. Wood	19.5	2	71	2	3.58
B.A. Stokes	10.4	1	47	1	4.41
M.J. Leach	15.0	0	46	1	3.07

Second Innings: England	68 all out	RR: 2.16	O: 27.4

Batsmen	R	B	4s	6s	SR
H. Hameed c. Carey b. Boland	7	31	1	0	22.58
Z. Crawley c. Carey b. Starc	5	16	1	0	31.25
D.J. Malan lbw. Starc	0	1	0	0	0.00
J.E. Root* c. Warner b. Boland	28	59	4	0	47.46
M.J. Leach b. Boland	0	2	0	0	0.00
B.A. Stokes b. Starc	11	16	2	0	68.75
J.M. Bairstow lbw. Boland	5	18	0	0	27.78
J.C. Buttler+ not out	5	14	1	0	35.71
M.A. Wood c+b. Boland	0	3	0	0	0.00
O.E. Robinson c. Labuschagne b. Boland	0	2	0	0	0.00
J.M. Anderson b. Green	2	4	0	0	50.00
Extras (b 0, lb 5, w 0, nb 0)	5
Total	68

Bowlers	O	M	R	W	Ec
M.A. Starc	10.0	3	29	3	2.90
P.J. Cummins	10.0	4	19	0	1.90
S.M. Boland	4.0	1	7	6	1.75
C.D. Green	3.4	0	8	1	2.18

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Despite a better bowling performance on day two from England, the tourists are just hanging on against Australia in the Boxing Day Test. Join The Roar for live scores and rolling coverage of the third day’s play from 10:30am (AEDT).

England’s bowlers turned out their best performance of the Ashes series so far in Australia’s first innings. James Anderson was superb, taking 4-33 off 23 miserly overs, while Mark Wood and Ollie Robinson took two wickets each.

Australia’s total of 267 was hard going, on a pitch that was still offering plenty for the bowlers.

Marcus Harris may have played a Test career-saving innings with an important 76. Other than Marnus Labuschagne with a rare failure, the rest of Australia’s batting line-up got starts but couldn’t go on with the job.

The result was an Australian lead of 82 on the first innings, a lead which was ably assisted by Australia’s tail again wagging.

The match swung heavily in Australia’s favour in an amazing last 30 minutes. Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland took two wickets each to have England reeling at 4-31 at stumps, still 51 runs in arrears.

Joe Root and Ben Stokes are at the crease and you get the sense that this is England’s last stand. If there are early wickets today, Australia may well have retained the Ashes by stumps.

Game information
Venue: MCG, Melbourne
First ball: 10:30am (AEDT)
TV/Stream: Kayo Sports, Foxtel, Channel Seven
Betting: Australia $1.41, England $6.20, draw $5 – odds via PlayUp

Australia Team
David Warner, Marcus Harris, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland (debut), Nathan Lyon

England Team
Haseeb Hameed, Zak Crawley, Dawid Malan, Joe Root (c), Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler (wk), Ollie Robinson, Mark Wood, Jack Leach, James Anderson

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