Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley showed resilience, holding each end as they powered England to 45 without loss, trailing by 132 runs at dinner on Day 3 in the day-night Ashes Test in Brisbane. Australia had earlier been bundled out for 511, taking a massive 177-run lead.
Root, who had gone 15 Tests and 29 innings without a Test century in Australia, finally got the monkey off his back and registered a century that could do wonders to his Test legacy as the years roll on. Already the second-highest run-getter of all time chasing Indian icon Sachin Tendulkar's
Tasked with providing England with an explosive start to expand their 40-run lead further, Crawley once again fell to Starc in the first over, thanks to an excellent one-handed grab from the veteran Aussie left-armer. Previously in the first innings, he had nicked the delivery at slips to Us