DAY 3 SNAPSHOT

MAN OF THE MOMENT Alastair Cook. His fifth Test double century was the highest score against Australia at the MCG and saw him move past Mahela Jayawardene and Shivnarine Chanderpaul into seventh spot on the all-time run-scorers list.

KEY MOMENT Dawid Malan was the second England batsman not to review an incorrect lbw decision after James Vince’s non-review on day two.

STAT OF THE DAY 27 per cent – Joe Root’s inability to convert fifties into a ton. His conversion rate of Test fifties to hundreds (27 per cent) is the worst of the current top 10 run-getters in the world.