Australia are trailing by 200 runs at the end of day-2 in the third Test of Ashes. Their skipper—Steve Smith—is unbeaten at 92 runs and will look forward to pick up his hundred while making a productive partnership with Shaun Marsh, who is batting at 7.

Finishing the first day with 305 runs on the scoreboard after losing four wickets, England were on the brink of putting up a massive total. But the lower-middle order and the tailenders’ failure to keep up with the expectations saw them stop at 403.

Earlier in the first session, Dawid Malan was dismissed at 140 runs by Nathan Lyon. The spinner’s only wicket interrupted Malan on the way of breaking Chris Broad’s record. Broad’s innings of 162 runs still remains the highest score by an English maiden centurion at WACA.

Jonny Bairstow, who was batting on 75 runs yesterday, picked up his century and celebrated in style by taking off his helmet and headbutting it. He was picked up by Starc at 119.

After Malan’s departure, the rest of England’s five wickets tumbled like the tiles of dominoes as no other batsman could play a decent innings. Moeen Ali returned to the pavilion for a duck as Pat Cummins bagged his second wicket with a bouncer.

Chris Woakes and Craig Overton scored 8 and 2 respectively before getting out by Hazlewood. Starc picked up his 4^th wicket of the innings after dismissing Stuart Broad at 12 runs.

Australia, losing two wickets at 55 runs, needed their batsmen to make a partnership. After both of the openers, Warner and Bancroft, were dismissed by Craig Overton scoring 20 odd runs, Steve Smith along with Usman Khwaja gave the Aussies exactly what they were looking for. Together, they built a partnership of 124 runs before Usman got out at 50 runs by Woakes.