Evening all and welcome to the ABC Sport coverage of the third Ashes Test from Leeds.

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Thank you once again for getting involved and choosing to spend your evening/night with us – I hope it will be as entertaining as the other 12 days of Test cricket have been so far this series.

This third Test is another game that is fascinatingly poised, with every parry and thrust being met in kind – albeit at a vastly accelerated rate to what we’ve seen thus far in this series.

The start of day three sees Australia hold a 142-run lead with six second-innings wickets remaining.

How many will Australia get? How many will Australia feel is defendable? How many overs will even be bowled today amidst storm warnings across the UK?

Well, myself Simon Smale and themselves Jon Healy and Dean Bilton will be on hand to tell you all about it no matter what happens over the course of the next eight hours or so.

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