Australia - 1st Innings - 270 (89.3 overs)
England - 2nd Innings - 330 (95.1 overs)
Australia - 2nd Innings - 224 (68.3 overs)
ENGLAND WIN BY 74 RUNS
England continued their dominance of the 2013 Ashes Series as they beat Australia by 74 runs to make it three wins in four for the hosts.
England won the toss and chose to bat, it is worth noting that neither team after winning the toss has decided to bowl so far throughout the series. The hosts got off to a slow start and Root couldn't find his form from the second test, he went for 16 off 52 balls when Michael Clarke decided to review the initial not out call from Watson's ball that claimed to clip Root and caught behind by Haddin. It turned out a good review, at last for Australia.
Alastair Cook didn't seem affected by the dismissal though as he continued to slowly make his way past the 50 mark. Trott also came very close to his half century but fell one short after the ball clipped his pad and fell to short leg.
Nathan Lyon, who was dropped hours before the first test at Trent Bridge, managed to put together some of his best cricket as he demolished the middle batsmen to take overall figures of 4/42. After Cook's dismissal, England failed to reach a score of over 20 runs with any individual, Matt Prior coming the closest with 17 off 58.
Australia managed to bowl England out for a standard 238, not fantastic but not catastrophic for England but it would have to take someone like Lyon did for Australia to give England the advantage.
Yet it couldn't be any other man than the one that has been involved in the most controversy over the three previous tests, Stuart Broad took figures of 5/71 to dismiss Australia for 270, giving them a 32 run lead.
Chris Rogers was the star of the show amongst the Australian batters as he managed 110 off 250 balls, Shane Watson, who was pushed down the order responded brilliantly with 68, just over one every two balls to give Australia a slight lead with bad light ending day two early.
England's second innings didn't start much better than the first as they found themselves 49/3, Ryan Harris taking the first three wickets, his one on Root was in spectacular fashion. Pietersen adding 44 to the total but once again, potentially the player of the tournament, Ian Bell put on another brilliant century with 113 off 210 before Harris got another wicket. I dont know what was better, Bell's batting or Harris' bowling, he finished with figures of 7/117, a one man show in effect.
Tim Bresnan and Broad also managed to put on some runs to give Australia a target of 299, realistic but tough. They started in superb fashion, Rogers and David Warner putting on a 100 partnership, it looked as though Australia were cruising towards their first win of the series.
England did eventually get their breakthrough as Graeme Swann dismissed Rogers, one away from his half century as he looked to continue his fine batting from the first innings. Khawaja put on 21 to put Australia on 147/2, almost halfway there with plenty of time left and 8 wickets to spare. David Warner did finally go when Prior's catch off Bresnan ended Warner's innings at 71 off 113 balls. Michael Clarke also put on an identical score to Khawaja before he himself was dismissed by Broad.
Then came the demolishing. Stuart Broad playing some of his best cricket at test level, Australia were batting well up to this point, they were comfortable, but Broad took five out of the last six wickets as Australia's batting fell apart completely. They managed just 7 runs between four batsmen and only 57 runs from when they were three wickets down to the last wicket.
On a day that looked like Australia may have got their first test victory of the series, none other than Stuart Broad, surrounded by controversy in the first test, disheveled Australia's batsmen to give England a 3-0 lead going into the final test.
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