T P SPIN ON THE TEST By LAWRENCE BOOTH

■WHEN Joe Root back-cut Cameron Green for four from the first ball after the final session drinks break, he became the highest-scoring England Test captain in history, overtaking Alastair Cook’s 4,844 runs. ÷STEVE SMITH’S dismissal for six was his first single-figure Ashes score in 13 innings, stretching back to the last Adelaide Test four years ago, when he fell lbw to Chris Woakes — also for six.

MARNUS LABUSCHAGNE’S second-innings 51 was the seventh time in 11 innings that he has scored at least a half-century against England.

WHEN Haseeb Hameed was caught behind off Jhye Richardson, it was England’s 49th Test duck in 2021. Their calendar-year record is 54 in 1998.

HAMEED’S scores of six and nought in this game mean his Test average has dropped below 30 for the first time in his career.