Despite being dominant at WACA, Australia will now have to depend on the weather as today’s game was interrupted by rain after England put a total of 132 runs for 4 wickets on the scoreboard. The forecast for the final day of the third Test is not great either.

As Australia came to bat on day-4, Mitchell Marsh was trapped lbw by James Anderson before adding any runs. The Aussie skipper Steven Smith was dismissed by the same man in similar fashion adding 10 runs to his previous score of 229.

Anderson bagged 4 wickets as he got the wickets of Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon as well. Cummins accompanied Tim Paine in a partnership of 83 runs before getting out scoring 41. Paine remained unbeaten at 49 as Australia declared their innings on registering the highest total in an innings of an Ashes Test in Australia at 662 losing 9 wickets, with a lead of 259 runs.

Mitchell Starc got run out at 1 by Vince following a misunderstanding between him and Paine. Lyon scored 4 runs before returning to the pavilion.

Five English bowlers conceded more than 100 runs in an innings making it the only second occurrence in an Ashes Test alongside England’s bowling performance in 2009 at Cardiff. Today, no other English bowler could include more wickets to their bowling figure.

Coming on to the pitch to bat, England lost their first wicket at 4 runs as Mark Stoneman was dismissed by Hazlewood scoring 3 runs. Another opener—Alstair Cook—was caught and bowled by the same bowler. With an average of 13.83 in this series, Cook’s miserable form has stretched to 10 innings without a fifty.

James Vince displayed a fine piece of batting as he scored his half-century before getting out. Mitchell Starc picked up his only wicket with the ‘ball of the Ashes and the summer’ according to the former Australian spinner Shane Warne.

Joe Root scored 14 runs before his departure. The English skipper got caught at the slip by Smith while edging the ball delivered by Nathan Lyon.

The centurions of the previous innings, Malan and Bairstow ended the day remaining unbeaten at 28 and 14 runs respectively. They will surely try to build a good partnership again as Australia need six wickets to regain the Urn before England score the 127 runs they are trailed by.

England, on the other hand, are still positive about the game. Anderson told BBC's Test Match Special: "We're still fighting, we're still in the game, so to speak.

"We've got a lot of hard work to do. We're going to keep believing and come tomorrow with a strong attitude.

"We're in a position where, if we lose tomorrow, the series is gone. We know we've got to give absolutely everything to try and stay in this game and this series."

Putting an end to the astounding fifth-wicket partnership of Smith and Marsh this morning, Anderson’s team, which have been fielding for almost two days, were relieved.

He added: "We had to get early wickets. It's not gone our way with the ball - two of their guys played outstandingly well and we didn't bowl quite as well as we could.