Adelaide, Dec. 20 -- After two early wickets, an unbeaten 75-run partnership for the third wicket between Joe Root and Zak Crawley continued keeping England alive, as they still needed 329 runs at the end of the second session on day four of the third Ashes Test at Adelaide Oval on Saturday.

At the end of the second session, England was 106/2, with Root (37*) and Crawley (36*) unbeaten.

England started the second session at 5/1, with Crawley (1*) and Ollie Pope (0*) unbeaten, needing to chase down a 435-run target to keep the Ashes alive.

England got some lucky runs, with four leg byes on two occasions by Mitchell Starc and a streaky shot from Pope. Crawley and Pope seemed to be stitching a partnership, but the latter's luck ran out du...