LIVE: Root rides stupendous strokes to century

Joe Root tucks 1 distant done the limb broadside disconnected Nathan Lyon and he's got his 30th Test century!

It's travel disconnected conscionable 145 deliveries, and he's played brilliantly close from the infinitesimal helium came successful earlier today.

"Those close astatine the commencement of a bid with everything to play for, those are the ones helium volition treasure," says Michael Atherton of this century.

Massive sound successful the discourse of this series. England needs him to beryllium astatine his implicit champion if they're going to get the urn back.

Cam Green is brought into the onslaught and strikes instantly for Pat Cummins!

Stuart Broad didn't truly look comfy retired there, moving astir each implicit the spot during his full innings.

He tries to measurement distant and smack 1 again but misses and Green takes retired disconnected stump.

You bash person to wonderment whether Australia could've fixed him a spot much of a vessel today.

"A important wicket I think. That's an important concern to interruption conscionable due to the fact that it tin resistance on," says Aaron Finch connected Nine's coverage.

"It's important that they wrapper this up arsenic soon arsenic possible."

Goodness gracious, Joe Root.

Kids bash not effort this astatine home, I committedness it won't extremity good for you.

A fewer hours aft scooping Boland into the stands, Root decides to bash it to Australia's skipper Pat Cummins. It ends successful the aforesaid result.

"This is bonzer from a world-class batter who is susceptible of doing anything," says Root's erstwhile teammate Eoin Morgan.

A accelerated innings from Moeen Ali comes to an extremity successful a flurry present arsenic he's the 2nd Englishman stumped.

A spot of a brainfade it indispensable beryllium said, feels similar he's truly fixed his wicket distant arsenic helium runs down the wicket and is stumped by Carey disconnected Lyon's bowling.

Lyon's been fantabulous contiguous with 4 wickets.

"It's a rash shot, you've got to accidental that. There were 4 men connected the boundary," says Mark Taylor connected commentary.

It's the 10th clip Lyon has gotten Moeen out.

Another drawback grassed by the Aussies! This is rather dissimilar the tourists.

Moeen Ali mistimes a consecutive thrust to the near of Pat Cummins, and the Aussie skipper is incapable to instrumentality the catch.

That's the 3rd driblet of the day, pursuing ones from Travis Head and Alex Carey.

It doesn't instrumentality agelong for Alex Carey to marque amends and that's a monolithic wicket for the Aussies!

Jonny Bairstow comes down the way to Nathan Lyon and tries to whip him done the limb broadside but misses it and is stumped.

Australia would emotion different 1 now. Moeen Ali strides to the wicket.

Another drawback dropped by Australia! This is rather dissimilar them.

Jonny Bairstow is rampantly going up the gears present and gives himself immoderate country successful an effort to flay Hazlewood done the off-side but lone edges it.

Carey wrong-foots himself and ends up diving afloat magnitude but the shot thuds disconnected his close mitt into the turf.

That 1 mightiness wounded the Aussies.

"You wonderment however costly that accidental mightiness be," says Ricky Ponting connected commentary.

"On wickets similar this, rather often Test matches and sometimes bid tin remainder connected small mistakes similar these.

"I don't retrieve seeing excessively galore bully teams beryllium mediocre fielding teams."

Jonny Bairstow tickles 1 down the limb broadside and hustles backmost for a speedy 2nd and brings up his half-century.

It's been a superb instrumentality to the Test broadside for England's No.7 and wicket-keeper, but they'll privation him to spell connected with it here.

Australia needs a wicket, and fast.