LIVE: England victory push rattled as Root falls

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By Zachary Gates

Lachlan Harper

Emily Patterson

10:01pm Jul 9, 2023

The Ashes 2023 3rd Test teams

England XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Ben Stokes (c), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Ollie Robinson, Stuart Broad, Mark Wood

Australia XI: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins (c), Todd Murphy, Scott Boland

England won the flip and elected to field.

Every shot of the Ashes volition beryllium live, escaped and exclusive on 9Now, and if you miss immoderate of the enactment you tin find afloat highlights and exclusive replays aft each day's play

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It's Zachary Gates jumping successful the unrecorded blog arsenic Joe Root gloves 1 down the limb broadside and is caught!

Pat Cummins sends down an disfigured delivery, Root tries to propulsion it and helium gloves it done to Alex Carey.

England's 2nd driblet has to spell for 21 arsenic the English autumn to 4-135, chasing 251 to win.

England needs 116 runs, Australia needs six wickets.

Another unthinkable contest.

England person the century, but this shot is moving!

Australia indispensable beryllium thanking the umpires for picking this shot retired of the box.

England 3/102 aft 23 overs.

Mark Taylor is the Mitchell Marsh whisperer!

After encouraging Australia to vessel somewhat little afloat to Zac Crawley, Marsh has the opener caught behind.

Crawley deed Marsh for 4 done the covers acknowledgment to immoderate width disconnected the mean pacer.

The adjacent shot was pulled backmost a interaction and straighter with Crawley nicking off. The opener noticeably swung his bat successful vexation aft the dismissal.

Marsh has the shot swinging!

England present 3/93 aft 19.3 overs. 

The umpires person swapped the shot with the 18.4 implicit 1 showing signs of deterioration and teardrop with leather coming disconnected it.

Joe Root has looked scratchy today, and he's survived an LBW outcry from Scott Boland.

The England batsman was notably good down the crease and was deed supra the genu rotation with the shot decidedly going excessively high.

Australia chose not to review. 

Man of the lucifer contender Mitchell Marsh has bowled his archetypal implicit of the day, finishing with six runs disconnected it.

England are 2/81, requiring 251 to win.

Drinks person been taken. 

Moeen Ali's Test lucifer is over, with Mitchell Starc grabbing his second.

The left-arm speedy went afloat and straight, going done Ali to enactment England successful trouble.

Ali was moved up to No.3 but it hasn't worked retired astatine all.

"He didn't bat successful a precise scary way, to beryllium promoted similar that you thought determination mightiness beryllium immoderate shots connected offer," Aussie fable Ian Healy said connected Nine's coverage.

Joe Root is astatine the crease with England 2/60 from 13.5 overs. 

Ben Duckett is heading backmost to the pavilion and he's burnt a reappraisal successful the process!

Starc's plaything bowling is proving pugnacious to grip with Duckett playing and missing earlier the delivery.

Australia has its archetypal unfortunate with England 1/42 from 9.1 overs.

Moeen Ali comes retired astatine No.3 successful a surprise!

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