Australia's pacers dominate England's opening order to end the first session of the first day of the final Ashes Test on a positive note on Thursday at the Oval.
Australia retained the Ashes 2023 title after rain completely ruled out the fifth day of the fourth test match on Sunday at Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester.
Crawley dominated the Australian bowlers as he played an aggressive knock of 189 off 182 balls while Joe Root and Moeen Ali provided supportive knocks of 84 and 54 respectively.
Zak Crawley's attacking century and Moeen Ali's fifty dominated the second session of Day 2 of the Fourth match of the Ashes series at Old Trafford Cricket Ground on Thursday with England consolidating their position in the match
Resuming from the first day's score of 299/8, Australia's batting did not last long as Woakes took two wickets quickly to complete his five-wicket haul.
Australia, however, missed the chance to capture the Ashes urn as England kept the series alive after winning the Headingley test by three wickets on the fourth day, making the series 2-1.
Alice Capsey guided England with a quickfire 46 in the third T20I of the multi-format series, as the hosts overcame London's fickle weather to successfully chase down a revised total of 119 off 14 overs with four deliveries remaining.
On the first day of the third test, England continued to let down with their on-field performance. Jonny Bairstow dropped catches behind the stumps of Steve Smith and Travis Head while Joe Root filed to catch Mitchell Marsh at 12 runs. Marsh then scored 118 runs in the match.
England skipper Ben Stokes reflected on his trust in wicketkeeper batter Jonny Bairstow and backed him to pull off high-scoring knocks in the third Test at Headingley following his stumping fiasco in the second Test of the Ashes 2023 series.
England skipper Ben Stokes opened up on the absence of Test vice-captain skipper Ollie Pope and the course of action that his team is willing to take in order to cover for it.