RECAP: Australia survives 'brutal' mini-session

Australia emerges unscathed!

A bully small commencement from Usman Khawaja and David Warner arsenic they enactment 14 runs unneurotic without a loss, but this has been a brilliantly adjacent time of play.

"It was a time that lived up to its billing," says erstwhile England skipper Nasser Hussain.

Joe Root leads England disconnected the crushed aft a superb period helped England station a formidable first-innings total.

There is nary Jimmy Anderson with the caller ball.

Ben Stokes opting to person Ollie Robinson partnering Stuart Broad the archetypal clip around.

The 40-year-old volition person to wait. It's the archetypal clip that has happened connected his location ungraded since 2009.

Here we spell then, volition Ben Stokes' sporting declaration wage dividends for England?

Mark Taylor calls it "a precise bully and assertive portion of captaincy" from the England skipper.

"This volition beryllium an uncomfortable 20 minutes," helium adds.

"So acold it's vantage England."

Stuart Broad to get the archetypal ace astatine the Aussie openers.

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Ben Stokes sees Joe Root bring up his period and says that's capable and calls successful his troops successful bid to person a ace astatine Australia.

Right then, 393 successful England's archetypal innings.

Will Anderson and co beryllium capable to nip a fewer retired aboriginal doors here? 

"I deliberation this is simply a brutal 20 minutes (coming up for Australia), peculiarly with the records of Warner and Khawaja," says Aaron Finch.

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.