Ashes 2019 LIVE: Result and reaction as Ben Stokes 135 completes miracle comeback over Australia
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Your support makes all the difference.England's Ben Stokes defiantly took the game to Australia to save their Ashes hopes in the third Test at Headingley with one of the greatest innings ever seen.
Stokes pulled off a 76-run partnership with his final teammate, Jack Leach, hitting sixes for fun in a remarkable solo effort.
The series remains alive and goes to the fourth Test at Old Trafford all square. Follow LIVE reaction below.
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The third Test takes place on 22-26 August.
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ENG 67-9
That was it, the chance Australia were after. Hazlewood targets Leach's ribs and he fends it off, Wade scrambles at short leg, dives and catches the ball...
... but as he hit the ground the ball comes loose and Leach survives.
ENG 67 all out.
GONE! Leach is cleaned up by Hazlewood.
Leach goes too far across his stumps and Hazlewood flings down a leg stump delivery. Leach misses it and the stumps are obliterated.
Leach b Hazlewood 1 (7)
Well this test match has certainly turned on it's head. Australia bowl England for 67 and take a lead of 112 into their second innings.
The silver lining, if you can call it that, is England have broken some records with that performance.
That is the lowest England total against Australia since 1948. For perspective that's just three years after the end of the Second World War.
67 is the second lowest total at Headingley in test match cricket and England's lowest ever total at the ground.
Well played boys.
All Australia need to do is bat halfway decent and the Ashes are theirs. Another innings of 179 and they'll have a lead of over 290.
England won't chase that in the fourth innings. But miracles have happened at Headingley before.
AUS 0-0, lead by 112
Marcus Harris and David Warner come out for Australia.
Jofra Archer has the ball in hand. He throws it wide and Harris goes for it, misses it by a mile and looks nervous.
AUS 4-0, lead by 116
No such nerves with that one, Archer again bowls it outside off stump but Harris latches onto it this time and smokes it for four runs.
AUS 6-0, lead by 118
Six runs off Archer's first over. Stuart Broad will take the new ball from the other end. This is a lovely time to bat. The sun is shining and Australia have a lead of 118 runs.
AUS 10-0, lead by 122
Broad goes round the wicket to Warner straight away. He fires into the pads and it runs away for four leg byes.
AUS 10-1, lead by 122
GONE! Broad gets Warner again!
Broad straightens his line and nips the ball back in to Warner, it strikes him on the back pad and England erupt. Joel Wilson thinks about it and raises the finger. Warner reviews thinking he is outside the line but hawkeye shows he's not.
Warner lbw Broad 0 (2)
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