Nightwatchman: Key Ashes moments you missed overnight as Australian batsmen decimate England

• Scoreboard from the Third Test at Perth

Stuart Broad had only twice before gone for 100 runs without taking a wicket - on forgivable occasions too, at the Oval when South Africa’s Hashim Amla wracked up 300 and at Bridgetown on a belter. Here there was something in the pitch for quick bowlers who bent their backs, but Broad could make nothing of it.

At the least he should have tried bowling round the wicket to Steve Smith, to try a different angle, giving the impression that England had a left-arm bowler - which, of course, they never do.

Chris Woakes had as much trouble as Stuart Broad in getting something out of this pitch, unlike Australia’s quicks. The dichotomy between his performances in England and overseas is becoming horribly plain: 42 wickets at 24 each at home, 15 wickets - Usman Khawaja the 15th - at over 50 abroad. Didn’t his spell in the IPL teach him cutters, slower balls, variations in pace?

England’s tactics to Steve Smith

From the moment Smith went in, and England seemed far more intent on dismissing Usman Khawaja with spin, England have backed off from the Australian captain tactically and verbally.

No doubt the match referee Richie Richardson warned both teams in Adelaide that the next miscreant would be punished, but still: England could have shown some aggressive intent silently.

Smith, 92 overnight, was faced with one slip when he resumed and duly helped himself to his 22nd century in 59 Tests, and his 14th in 29 Tests as captain. Bradmanesque.

Moeen Ali

What a difference it makes to a side when a spinner can dismiss a well-set batsman with an old ball, as Moeen did when having Shaun Marsh caught at slip, the ball having rotated waspishly in its flight. But that was it, until Australia had overtaken England’s 403 at any rate.

Moeen was tidy, and used the Fremantle Doctor to drift the ball away from righthanders, but once the lefthander had gone he did not threaten to beat either edge.

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