Come on! Alex Carey freed his arm, delivered an over-high break with disdain, and beamed it between the pitcher and Harry Brook shortly in between. There’s not much distance there but both men are hopeless.

Jonny Bairstow imagines there’s an advantage as he neatly collects his left as Ali is spat on the surface by one, but the rest of the England players don’t care. Moeen shook his head and Ben Stokes kindly insisted – no consideration… and no clubbing, although it wasn’t very far from Carey’s blade.

Ollie Robinson draws a real side from Alex Carey, one of very few today, that reflects the nature of this surface. It skewered through an empty gutter and forced James Anderson into the hard court. Pulled back when there was room – a good, even stride for Anderson, still a graceful athlete in the fifth decade.

Strictly speaking, there is now a new (old) ball, with England once again demanding a change as the second Duke of the inning was disqualified. Five dots and one dot from the 23rd of Moeen Ali.

Ollie Robinson is doing another roll, which means he’ll drop the new ten ball assignment until a new ball is available.

Alex Carey, another former Sussex teammate of Robinson’s on an Australian middleweight team full of surnames, threw a ball into the cover, but Ollie Pope got in the way. Six dots.

You can see exactly how much that one hundred dollar amount means to Usman Khawaja, who walks away as soon as he finds a gap in the gutter. He’s had plenty of battles in England in the past, on and off a series of tough tours where he was tortured by the moving ball. But today he was very, very organized, attacking whenever England missed and judging his stroke of the club against the England cranks very well.

Beautifully driven by Usman Khawaja – is it steam enough to get to the fence?…Not really, and the opener missed as he turned around looking for a third run.

But there is a hundred with a dab for the third man! Khawaja’s 15th total and first in the UK and celebrated with a cheer of delight! He played quite well today, always comfortable on these slow surfaces. It’s a ton of testament to all his hard work and perseverance – his Experimental renaissance continues!

Alex Carey hit the bend with England immediately pushing the point out deep to guard against his favorite sweep back. Carey scored the only goal, giving Ben Stokes the chance to play to Usman Khawaja’s favor by bringing the pitch on. The opener didn’t like Moeen continued, blocking a ball that went off the post back to the pitcher.

A beauty! Take a sharp turn for Moeen Ali and hit the top of the tree in the middle!

It’s the classic Moeen. He makes a lot of farts with this ball, drawing Cameron Green into an airy and drifting steering stroke, but drives through his action to get off this dry surface. It came back over the inside edge and upset the underwriters, a crackerjack player was fired – Green had to make a well-composed 38 as Australia again lost a racquet as soon as they started placing He’s in a difficult position.

Stokes asked if Khawaja would like to flash with a wide half volley to get there; Khawaja withdrew his hand in refusal.

For the first time in the day, it feels like England has gone a little flat, their captain trying to find rhythm on the ball and the Edgbaston crowd still needing to wake up from their late afternoon nap.

Great from Usman Khawaja – one of those trademark short arm jabs and he’s in one shot.