Third Ashes Test, Edgbaston, day five:
By Tom Fordyce
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**1028: **
Maybe the van driver was on the blower to his bookie. If he had been, the odds he’d have been quoted would be draw 1/4, England win 11/4, Aussie win 50/1.
From BBC Sport’s Oliver Brett at Edgbaston: “Blue skies earlier in the morning have quickly given away to a generous helping of cloud cover that might help create those swing conditions that worked so well for England on the second morning. My hunch, though, is that it might need to get a bit warmer for the ball to really hoop about.”**1020: **
On the cycle in this morning, I played a quick game of Traffic Light Oracle. You know the one - as you approach a green light, you give yourself a scenario; if the light is still green when you get to it, that scenario will come true. On the basis of that journey, I can confirm that the following will happen today: Australia will be all out for a lead of 120, England will have 20 overs to knock them off and that bloke in the white van wants to get off his mobile phone and look where he’s going.