Latest updates from the Sydney Cricket Ground on day fiveFarbrace questions players’ mental strength and characterAnd Get in touch with Adam on email or via Twitter @collinsadam 1.33am GMT 75th over: England 144-5 (Root 58, Bairstow 38) Last over before lunch. Root defends Hazlewood with comfort early on. Pulls a couple from a relatively tame short ball to finish the session inching closer to a precious ton in Australia. Hazlewood finds an inside edge with the penultimate ball, but the England captain is through to the break. Gutsy stuff considering where he started this morning: in hospital. Lunch.Only Moeen fell during the session. He looked quite good against Lyon this morning too, but eventually the off-spinner was able to get through via a straight one. So straight that there was no consideration of going upstairs to review. Plum. Australia half way there. 1.30am GMT 74th over: England 142-5 (Root 56, Bairstow 38) Mitch Marsh on for a twist instead of Lyon. Not a bad shout. Shamelessly plug my piece from last night one more time, then? Okay. Decent set too. Keeps Bairstow honest. Paine shakes it up by coming to the stumps. “That won’t help Mitch’s desire to get back into the fast bowling cartel,” Simon Katich notes on the ABC commentary. Classy take from the stumper when YJB leaves, having to move high to his right. The batsman is hurried up by the last one too, prompting a few oohs and aahs. Nearly snuck through. Another maiden.“Interesting how, at time of writing, Cook and Root have ended up with identical figures (Root with power to add), but in completely different ways,” emails Tom Bowtell. Continue reading…
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