Australia vs England, 2nd Test - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Neser to Pope, out Caught&Bowled!! His ground fielding was impressive this innings (runout attempts and sliding saves) and now he grabs a smart catch off his own bowling. Almost had Duckett early on as well. Pope will be livid with this soft dismissal as he was getting into some flow despite the half-chances he gave. Fullish delivery from Neser, Pope early into the shot so no control. Ball nipped back in to catch him on the inner half of the bat. Neser had to switch his hands high to the left in his followthrough and he got both hands to it. Australia have another opening. Pope c and b Neser 26(32) [4s-4]

Doggett to Pope, 3 runs, full and down leg to release the pressure, Pope clips it to deep square leg. Boland runs to the left and stops the ball with the slide but was he touching the rope? Third ump has a long look and says it's not a boundary

Doggett to Pope, FOUR, now the outside edge escapes past second slip! Short of a length delivery outside off stump, Pope reaches for the drive and gets a thick edge because of the bounce, flew well over Smith

Doggett to Pope, no run, good length delivery down leg, Pope rolls off the pad

Doggett to Pope, FOUR, in the airrr and just over the flying fielder at cover! Full and outside off stump, Pope goes hard with the drive, doesn't bother to keep it down. Inglis dived and tried to grab it right-handed overhead but the ball escaped. Seems like Inglis landed badly on the right shoulder, is feeling some pain and rotating the arm. Looks like to carry on though

Boland to Pope, no run, absolutely solid in defence to this full delivery

Mitchell Starc to Pope, no run, good length delivery angling away, Pope lets it go

Mitchell Starc to Pope, no run, short of length delivery, Pope defends off the back foot

Mitchell Starc to Pope, no run, reaches out for a loose drive and misses! Full and really wide, Pope followed the ball and had no control over the shot as he was almost falling over

Boland to Pope, no run, good length delivery on the off stump, Pope leans forward and plays a nice defence

Boland to Pope, FOUR, lovely off-drive! Fullish and angling back in, Pope backed himself to middle the drive and played a glorious shot with the full face of the bat to the left of Boland. Mid-off was not even in the picture

Boland to Pope, no run, short and outside off stump, Pope lets it go

Boland to Pope, no run, fullish delivery nipping away, Pope defends to the off-side. Seemed like it kept a bit low as well

Mitchell Starc to Pope, no run, oh almost through him! Cunning inswinging yorker at 139.2kph, Pope just managed to get his bat down in time as he took this on the full. Dragged his legs out of the way to meet the ball

Mitchell Starc to Pope, no run, good length delivery angling away, Pope keeps his bat away as he leaves

Mitchell Starc to Pope, 3 runs, nicely driven! Compact shot from Pope as he got slightly closer to the line of this full ball to cut the angle across him. Head runs all the way to the deep cover fence from mid-off and hunts it down

Boland to Pope, 1 run, oh pinned him on the crease and got this length delivery to leave Pope with some bounce, Pope fends in hope of survival and it escapes to point off the shoulder of the bat

Boland to Pope, FOUR, full and on the pads, Pope glances it fine and gets wide of the man at leg slip to the left

Boland to Pope, 2 runs, one-handed drive from Pope as he fails to handle this fullish ball neatly. Nipped away to trouble the batter on the shot, but it's in the gap for a couple of runs

Boland to Pope, no run, Boland nips this short of length delivery back with some bounce and catches Pope on the inner thigh pad

Boland to Pope, no run, short of length delivery nipping away, Pope covers the line and lets it pass

Boland to Pope, no run, again goes fuller and attacks the pads/stumps, Pope tucks it to mid-on

Boland to Pope, no run, very good follow up ball! Dug this is short and forced Pope to go back when he would probably be expecting a ball to be played off the front foot. Pope manages to ignore it last moment

Boland to Pope, no run, it's a stronger appeal, this time for LBW. Umpire Sharfuddoula says no again as impact was just outside off stump. Smith asks his mates if he should send it upstairs but doesn't get the final word from Boland and Carey. Pope managed to his front foot slightly outside off stump as he tried to defend this cunning nip-backer

Doggett to Pope, no run, fullish on off, Pope again plays across it, trying to drive, Doggett tumbles on his followthrough and gets something on it, half-stopped as it rolls to mid-off

Doggett to Pope, no run, short of length and angled in on middle, Pope is squared up, it hits the leading-edge as he looks to play across it, rolls to cover, he wants a run, Crawley sends him back. Pope has a look at the bat after that. Took his bottom-hand off to soften the impact

Doggett to Pope, no run, good length and angled in on off, Pope gets forward to defend, it hits the sticker of the bat and rolls in front of mid-off

Doggett to Pope, no run, full outside off, another leave by Pope

Doggett to Pope, no run, full and angled in on the pads, Pope gets forward to flick and finds mid-on

Doggett to Pope, no run, short of length outside off, holds its line, Pope shoulders arms

Boland to Pope, 1 run, he is off the pair. A short of length delivery on leg-stump, Pope shuffles across and flicks it to deep backward square-leg

Boland to Pope, no run, nearly chips it back. A good length delivery on middle, Pope tries to flick and it hits him high on the bat, off the thickish outer half and just in front of Boland, maybe Boland should have dived forward there, it sort of looped to him, nervy moment for Pope