Ashes Timeline - 4th Test, day 5: Broad and Anderson survive final over for dramatic draw

All the action from day fifth of the fourth Test at the SCG, where England clung on for a draw

10am (11pm UK time): It's dry in Sydney and England's task is simple: bat all day. If they can do that - and not much over the last month suggests they can - they'll have staved off defeat.

The idea of victory seems particularly outlandish, with injuries to Jos Buttler, Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes not aiding any of those farfetched ambitions. With a solid session or two, a draw really shouldn't be out of reach, but this has been a desperate tour.

Graham Thorpe spoke last night about the need for his batters to "stand up". Who will it be?

10.26am: England 37-0 A life. And England will need a few of these, you sense. Haseeb Hameed edges behind but is let off by Alex Carey, who has put down a few chances in this series...

^{Australia began the day needing all 10 England wickets to go 4-0 up (David Gray/AFP via Getty Images)}

10.38am: England 46-1 WICKET No second life for Hameed, who continues to struggle. Yet again, he is caught on the crease, prods outside off-stump and is caught behind. Six innings without reaching double figures now.

10.55am: England 62-1 Fifty for Zak Crawley, who is backing up his pre-match words here. He was bullish about his chances despite coming into 2022 on the back of a 2021 to forget. This has been a typically attractive effort, albeit nowhere close to the Ahmedabad half century in February that made his subsequent drought so mind-boggling.

11.12am: England 74-2 WICKET An innocuous delivery from Nathan Lyon beats Dawid Malan's cut shot and cannons into his off-stump. Not what England were after on the brink of the drinks break.

Shot.#Ashespic.twitter.com/N9WHqo60xB

— The Cricketer (@TheCricketerMag) January 9, 2022

11.40am England 96-3 WICKET A shame. Zak Crawley has looked absolutely imperious. For an hour or so, it was the most enjoyable England innings of the series. But as all too often on this tour, it didn't last long enough. Cameron Green traps him on the toe with a perfect yorker.

12.30pm: England 122-3 Joe Root and Ben Stokes have taken England through to lunch. Short leg has been interested, but by and large they have been untroubled - although Root's box has once again come in for some rough treatment.

1.05pm: It's raining in Sydney, so we'll see a delayed start to the afternoon...

2pm: The rain has stopped and the covers are off. We'll start again in 10 minutes - seven overs have been lost...

^{Zak Crawley was imperious for 77 (David Gray/AFP via Getty Images)}

2.20pm: England 135-3 Play is back up and running, and Stokes has hooked Mitchell Starc for six. There are 53 overs remaining in the day. It is worth remembering that England have Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler - both carrying hand injuries that kept them off the field in Australia's second innings - next in...

2.44pm: England 147-3 That's the fifty partnership between England's A-List pair. There are 49 overs left in this match, and the tourists will want these two facing the bulk of them, even as Stokes nurses his sore side.

3.08pm: England 156-4 WICKET Scott Boland is at it again. He gets Joe Root, who edges behind.

Joe Root in pink ball mode already, having a net while Bairstow and Stokes resume their resistance in the middle #Ashes pic.twitter.com/o2lsaV9WmY

— Bharat Sundaresan (@beastieboy07) January 9, 2022

3.40pm: England 174-4 Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes have lasted until tea - two of the three men walking wounded. In the final session of this game, Australia will have 35 overs, England six wickets to defend.

4.10pm: England 179-4 Ben Stokes whips through midwicket for four, and that's fifty. Given the circumstances, given his obvious pain, that's a fine effort from England's vice-captain.

4.35pm: England 193-5 WICKET He has fought so well in both innings, but Ben Stokes' game - and series? - comes to an end. It's a nothing shot that leaves him infuriated, unable to get his bat out of the way of a delivery from Nathan Lyon that turns and bounces, takes the edge and pops to Steve Smith at slip. A tame end to a heroic defiance.

^{Ben Stokes made fifties in both innings but fell shortly before the second new ball (David Gray/AFP via Getty Images)}

5.22pm: England 218-6 WICKET Pat Cummins spears a delivery into Jos Buttler's back pad. Paul Reiffel gives it not out on the field, but the noise he heard was actually bat on toe rather than bat on ball. Australia have an hour to take four wickets. England, with the tail alongside Jonny Bairstow, have to survive.

5.25pm: England 218-7 WICKET A matter of seconds later, Australia have another. It's unplayable really. A big, inswinging yorker from Captain Cummins smashes into Mark Wood's toe. He ends up on the floor and England are in desperate trouble.

5.29pm: England 218-7 Blimey. It's all happening. In the next over, Steve Smith puts down Jonny Bairstow at second slip.

5.56pm: England 232-7 There are 12 overs left in the match. Jonny Bairstow and Jack Leach at the crease. The tension is palpable.

Who else but Pat Cummins? 🙌

Two lethal inswingers brings two wickets and Australia are up and about! #OhWhatAFeeling#Ashes | @Toyota_Aus pic.twitter.com/2oee4kVhwW

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 9, 2022

6.04pm: England 237-8 WICKET The big one: Jonny Bairstow's excellent game comes to an end, inside-edging onto his pad for the ball to balloon to Marnus Labuschagne at silly point. Australia are nearly home...

6.28pm: England 257-8 36 balls to survive. Stuart Broad and Jack Leach are giving it everything. Nathan Lyon to bowl...

6.41pm: England 268-8 Three overs left. The light is closing in. Australia have been told to bowl their spinners. It's Steve Smith...

6.43pm: England 270-9 WICKET Despair for Jack Leach, who has played brilliantly for 34 balls. But he edges the last ball of Steve Smith's over to slip.

6.49pm MATCH DRAWN And breathe. Jimmy Anderson successfully negotiates six more balls from Steve Smith, and England survive.

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