The Ashes live cricket scores: Australia and England resume battle in fifth and final Test at the SCG

Root is beaten first ball with Carey up to the stumps.

He’s off the mark with a drop-and-run single.

Beaten! Neser nibbles one away as Bethell goes to drive.

GOT HIM!

Duckett goes to cut, but it’s too close to the body and he just chops onto his stumps.

Green gives NEser a massive bear hug with his drop not proving costly.

Huge breakthrough after lunch.

Boland from the other end.

Full wide and driven for one as the deficit goes under 100.

Full and beat of a leading edge into midwicket for one.

Boland beats Bethell’s edge.

Michael Neser with the ball.

Full outside off as Duckett defends. No-ball called.

Short and Duckett cuts a single to backward point.

Shaves one past Bethell’s edge.

Bethell knocks one square.

Neser beats Duckett’s defence.

A great session for England and a poor one for Australia, who didn’t bowl particularly well before Green’s horror drop gave Duckett a life.

It was a shocking misjudgment and a microcosm of his series.

Runs flowed at more than five an over and Australia re in desperate need of a reset.

Last over before lunch, can Green put that behind him?

Bethell works a single.

Duckett gets a single off the last and that’s lunch.

Neser returns. Five minues until lunch.

DROPPED! Cam Green’s Ashes horror conintues as Neser finds the edge and Green moves across Smith at first slip and spills it!

Would have gone straight to Smith, and the captain is fuming! Green dares not look at him.

Beaten next ball and then cuts a single.

Duckett is squared up but it lands safe for one.

Bethell bunts one backward of square.

FOUR! Overpitched and driven for four as Ducket moves to his highest score of the series.

Duckett works one to backward point.

FOUR! Brutal short ball flies off Bethell’s shoulder over the slips for another boundary. There’s a delay as the physio comes out.

Ducks out of the way of antoher short ball.

Leading edge from Bethell beats Weatherald at backward point for four!.

FOUR! Full wide and Bethell nails the drive through backward point for four.

Runs flowing.

Cam Green time.

Beaten! Duckett hangs the bat out and it moves away to beat his edge.

FOUR! Short and Duckett pulls off the front foot to bring up England’s 50.

Beaten again! Back outside off and it bounces over Duckett’s late cut.

Popped up! Extra bounce takes the shoulder of the bat but it lands safe.

FOUR MORE! Short again and Duckett pulls forward of square to bring up the 50 partnership.