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A snapshot of day five of the second Ashes Test between Australia and England at Adelaide Oval.
AUSTRALIA v ENGLAND, SECOND TEST, DAY FIVE:
Score: Australia (9(dec)-473 and 9(dec)-230) bt England (236 and 192) by 275 runs.
Summary: England showed plenty of fight to battle into the third session, after starting the day needing to survive 90 overs with only six wickets in hand. Jos Buttler in particular played a defiant knock, but wickets fell sporadically around him as England fell 21 overs and 275 runs short.
Man of the moment: Jhye Richardson. The quick produced figures of 5-42 in his first Test in almost three years to win it for Australia. He broke a 188-ball seventh-wicket partnership between Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler when he bowled Woakes between bat and pad with one that seamed back, before later getting Buttler hit wicket.
Key moment: Jos Buttler put in one of the great fighting displays to bat for 258 minutes before treading on his own stumps to Jhye Richardson. Trying to keep the strike, Buttler pushed back to hit the ball to point, but became England's ninth wicket when his heels bumped the stumps. It was a cruel end for Buttler, who had fought back from a first-innings duck and three dropped catches behind the stumps.
Stat of the day: England must now become just the second team in history to comeback from 2-0 down to win a five-Test series if they are to regain the Ashes.
