and offering some dogged resistance, on day three of the opening ashes test. although the tourists lost both opeing batsmen in the morning session, the partnership of captainjoe root and davide malan has given england renewed confidence. both have hit half centuries, and between them they ve added over 120. they still face a mountain to climb, because of australia s huge first innings total of 425, but it could be so important for morale, looking ahead to the rest of the series, and if they can stay batting all day, well, then they might start thinking mission impossible, but for now, england are 185/2, 93 runs behind leicester city are out of the europa league after losing 3 2 to napoli.