Live cricket score, ball by ball commentary, ENG vs AUS The Ashes 2019, 3rd Test, Day 3

11:35 PM IST

IT’S STUMPS ON DAY THREE! England 156/3, with Joe Root batting on 75 and Ben Stokes unbeaten on 2. England need 203 runs to secure what could be a very special win.
10:47 PM IST

WICKET! The 126-run partnership has been broken, Hazlewood gets the breakthrough, Denly departs for 50. England 141/3, need 218 runs to win
10:22 PM IST

Take a bow, Joe Denly! Much-deserved second Test half-century, he lifts his bat to a standing ovation, England 138/2, need 221 runs more to win.
9:25 PM IST

Joe Root brings up a fine fifty from 120 balls. Can be convert this into a century? The 100-run partnership between Root and Denly comes up, England need 244 runs to win.
9:16 PM IST

Hundred comes up for England, 101/2, need 258 runs to win (Joe Root 47, Joe Denly 31)
8:51 PM IST

That’s tea at Headingley on Day 3! England 90/2 (Joe Root 41, Joe Denly 30), need 269 runs to win
8:06 PM IST

The crowd erupts as Joe Root (24*) and Joe Denly (23*) bring up their 50 runs partnership
7:34 PM IST

50 up for England. Joe Denly and Joe Root both are batting on 17 runs each and have dug in. England need such stubbornness to entertain any thoughts of winnings this from here.
6:33 PM IST

Joe Root gets off the mark with a triple – a huge cheer from the crowd as the England captain avoids a pair.
6:27 PM IST

WICKET! And Pat Cummins strikes as well. A beauty from world’s top-ranked Test bowler as Jason Roy plays the wrong line with the ball rushing past his defenses to crash on the stumps. He scored 8. England 15/2, chasing 359

England vs Australia live cricket score and ball by ball commentary, ENG vs AUS The Ashes 2019, 3rd Test, Day 3, live score at Leeds

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of day three of the third Test of The Ashes 2019 between England and Australia at Leeds on Saturday.

ENG vs AUS Day 2 recap

Josh Hazlewood took five wickets as England were bowled out for just 67 on the second day of the third Test at Headingley on Friday to leave Australia on the verge of retaining the Ashes.

This was England’s lowest Ashes total since 1948 and the fourth time in 18 months they had been dismissed for under a hundred in a Test — a record unmatched by any other side in the same period.

Fast bowler Hazlewood took 5-30 in an England innings that was wrapped up inside 28 overs. Ashes-holders Australia — who will go 2-0 up with just two to play in this five-match series by winning at Headingley — then strengthened their grip to be 171-6 in their second innings at stumps, a commanding lead of 283 runs.

Marnus Labuschagne, whose first-innings 74 was seven more than England managed between them, was 53 not out.

It was his third straight fifty of the series after he made 59 in the second innings of the drawn second Test at Lord’s after coming into the side as a concussion substitute for star batsman Steve Smith.

A miserable day for England also saw captain Joe Root out for a duck on his Yorkshire home ground before he dropped a routine slip catch when Labuschagne had made 14.

England’s woes were compounded after tea when rising star Jofra Archer — who had taken 6-45 in Australia’s first-innings 179 — limped off midway through an over with cramp, although he did return to the field.

Labuschagne was dropped for a second time, on 42, when wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow failed to hold a tough low chance diving to his right.

Earlier, Joe Denly, with 12, was the only England batsman to reach double figures.

But whereas Labuschagne and David Warner (61) fought hard during their first-innings partnership of 111, few England batsmen were as prepared to sell their wickets as dearly.

By staging both the World Cup and the Ashes with a short turnaround between the two showpiece events, England had denied several batsmen first-class preparation for the very different demands of Test cricket.

By contrast, a number of Australians had appeared for English county sides — Labuschagne, the only batsman to so far score 1,000 first-class runs this season was with Glamorgan — or featured on the Australia A tour of England.

Friday’s slump came after England had been dismissed for 58 by New Zealand (Auckland 2018), 77 by the West Indies (Bridgetown 2019) and 85 by Ireland at Lord’s last month.

What made this latest rout all the more troubling was that the blue and sunny skies above Headingley on Friday ought to have made conditions for batting easier than the gloom of Thursday, when Root won the toss.

Jason Roy, given the poisoned chalice this season of being an England Test opener despite batting in the middle-order in first-class cricket with Surrey, took guard having made just 40 runs in four innings this series.

He fell for nine in familiar fashion when he edged a drive off a wide Hazlewood ball to Warner, holding the first of four catches at first slip.