- Three spectators ejected for calling England batsman ‘fat’
- Billings drafted in from Big Bash League to bolster squad
Jonny Bairstow said it would have been nice if the supporters who were thrown out for abusing him at tea had still been there at stumps when he walked off the field basking in the afterglow of his toughest Test century to date.
The 32-year-old lit up the third day in Sydney with an unbeaten 103 that, along with a bristling 66 from Ben Stokes, took England to 258 for seven, avoided the follow-on and raised hopes of the tourists preventing a series whitewash at 3-0 down.
