The second Ashes Test is Australia’s to lose after finishing day three with a 362-run lead and 10 wickets in hand in the second innings.
Openers David Warner (60 not out) and Chris Rogers (44 not out) remained unbeaten at stumps after adding 108 runs in the final session.

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Already with a healthy 254-run buffer, the in-form Rogers started in a flash as Warner struggled at the other end.

The usually explosive half of the opening pair was lucky to get off zero as he sent a quick but catchable chance Adam Lyth’s way in just the third over of the innings.

But surviving dropped catches in the infancy of an innings and progressing to big scores has become the hallmark of the series thus far — with Joe Root and Rogers both granted second lives before making their way to tons in the first two Tests — and Warner appears eager to join the fray.
Having looked nervy to start, Warner reached his 15th Test half-century off 71 balls, while Rogers calmly passed 200 runs for the series.

Earlier, Australia’s bowlers restricted England to 312, with captain Alastair Cook (96) the only England batsman to show any real resistance on the day.

Cook had started the day in the midst of a recovery effort with Ben Stokes and they added 120 runs to their fifth-wicket partnership before Stokes became the 87th Test batsman to be dismissed for 87 when he was bowled by opposing all-rounder Mitchell Marsh (2 for 23).

His devastation at failing to convert his third Test 50 into a big score was clear, but he had done a brilliant job of helping rebuild the innings, which was floundering at 4 for 30 late on day two.