Rain, a record, ball chat, and David Warner digging in... all you need to know from day four of the fourth Ashes Test in Melbourne.
SCORECARD | COOK'S GREATEST KNOCKS
Rain, David Warner and Steve Smith paused England's push for victory on day four of the fourth Ashes Test in Melbourne after Alastair Cook carried his bat for a record 244 - Australia closing on 103-2 to trail by 61 runs.
MOMENT OF THE DAY
Probably the first ball, to be honest, as James Anderson could do nothing but loop a short ball from Pat Cummins into the hands of Cameron Bancroft at short leg, leaving Cook unbeaten on 244 from 409 deliveries.
Cook carried his bat for the first time in his career and hit the highest score while doing so in a Test match, with his total topping the 223 New Zealand's Glenn Turner amassed against Windies in Kingston in 1972.
STAT OF THE DAY
Cook's 244 is the highest individual score in Tests which was not added to the following day. The previous record was held by Don Bradman who was 223no overnight after day one against Windies at Brisbane in 1930/31 and was dismissed without further addition on day two.
WHAT THEY SAID
After an Australian TV station released footage of Anderson with his thumb on the ball, England coach TREVOR BAYLISS refuted any suggestion of anything untoward - no report of ball tampering has been made to the ICC.
"I did see [the footage] during the rain break and I went to the umpires to find out what was going on," he told BT Sport. "In their words it was a beat-up - they had no problem at all and they said nothing to worry about.
"You are allowed to clean the ball and that's what we were doing. If Anderson was roughing up the ball, it was the wrong side, his thumb was on the shiny side! He was just getting the mud and dirt off the ball.
"To get the ball reversing one side needs to be rough and the other smooth - all teams around the world try to get it reversing as quick as possible."
Australia all-rounder MITCH MARSH has no beef with England's management of the ball: "There was certainly no chat in our changing room.
"For us it's about getting the job done and making sure as batsmen that we have game-plans against the reverse-swinging ball. I saw a bit of the footage but I don't pay too much attention to it when I'm next in to bat.
"I think we are in a reasonable position to save the game. We have a big day ahead of us - there will be 112 overs and we are going to have to pretty much bat all of them to come out with a draw."
TWEETS OF THE DAY