Updates from the third day of play at HeadingleyEngland capitulate with an exhausted shrugAny thoughts? Email or tweet @collinsadam 1.03pm BST 4th over: England 11-0 (Burns 6, Roy 6) In an effort to maybe get another from Cummins before the break, it is Lyon on to replace Hazlewood with three minutes on the clock. They tried him briefly at Burns yesterday, but he got out too quickly - hooking Cummins - which denied the spinner a proper spell. The left-hander pushes the first, a full toss, for a couple to midwicket. There are two men around the bat on the off side and Burns splits the two of them on the front foot - solid batting. He then cuts one to deep point, leaving Roy one to keep out with less than a minute to 1pm. He takes guard, killing enough time to make this the final ball of the session. He gets on the front foot, driving one to long-on to finish. The crowd give it big as they leave the field, thrilled that England have made it to the end of the fourth over without losing a wicket. Very good. 12.57pm BST 3rd over: England 7-0 (Burns 2, Roy 5) Hard hands! Roy pushes at Cummins rather than letting the ball come to him, the result a leading edge that so easily could have ended up with a catcher. Instead, it spits away past point for four, running across the square. `Have England gone to the well once too often with Stokes?` asks Niall Morrissey. `He´s sort of key to the batting. He has had a very physical match so far, with little chance to rest up. If England are to have any chance here, the early order has to front up and grind away while he recovers.` Continue reading...
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