Woakes’ four-for holds together the day for England

Coming into this match on 598, Broad trapped Usman Khawaja lbw earlier than bouncing out Travis Head 5 balls after tea to achieve his milestone. His 18 dismissals this sequence have seen him emerge because the banker in a altering assault – he’s the one England bowler to have been chosen in all 4 matches – masking for the truth that Anderson has struggled, coming in with simply three wickets. That the 40-year-old was with out success at this time was merely all the way down to luck, beating the bat on quite a few events, together with the odd inside edge that evaded stumps.

Woakes’ show, nonetheless, held collectively the day for England. Having made a robust impression in final week’s victory at Headingley to chop down Australia’s result in 2-1, the Warwickshire allrounder took over as chief of the assault. David Warner, off the again of an enticing employees, was snicked off for 32, earlier than clipping the wings of Mitchell Marsh, Cameron Inexperienced and Alex Carey all with the capability to attain rapidly.

Certainly it was the wicket of Marsh that was most vital: having reached 51, the Western Australia batter was squared up for an edge, which was brilliantly taken by Jonny Bairstow. The wicketkeeper, who had an untidy day behind the stumps, caught out a proper hand after veering to his left, pouching the ball at full-stretch. It was the primary time Marsh handed fifty in opposition to England and didn’t make it to 3 figures.