England face a mammoth task to avoid defeat in the second Ashes Test after Australia turned the screw on the third day at Lord’s.
Alastair Cook scored 96 and Ben Stokes 87 as the hosts made an admirable recovery from 30-4, but they were eventually dismissed for 312, still 254 runs behind.
Australia opted not to enforce the follow-on, advancing to 108-0 at stumps to lead by 362.
David Warner, dropped on nought by Adam Lyth in the gully, has 60, while first-innings centurion Chris Rogers is on 44.
With two days remaining, Australia are strong favourites to seal the victory that would level the series at 1-1 with three Tests to play.
England need to win the series outright to regain the Ashes urn.
Chasing the boundary off Mitchell Marsh that would take him to three figures, he overstretched and got a thick inside edge on to his stumps.
It was the seventh time Cook has been dismissed in the nineties, the most by an England player, and only three shy of the least desirable of Sachin Tendulkar’s many records.
In taking two key wickets with his medium-fast seamers, all-rounder Marsh went a long way to vindicating his inclusion at the expense of veteran Shane Watson, who went wicketless in Cardiff.
Marsh, the 23-year-old son of former Aussie batsman Geoff, pulled off an old Watson trick in breaking a crucial partnership when Stokes chopped a ball that moved in off the seam onto his stumps.
When he followed up with the prized wicket of Cook, Australia were into the England tail.
England missed the chance to put early pressure on Australia with the ball when Lyth reacted late to a thick edge from Warner off Stuart Broad and only managed to parry the ball to the boundary.
It is the third catch England have put down in that area after Chris Rogers and Steve Smith were both let off on their way to big hundreds in Australia’s first innings.
Warner resisted the temptation to reprise his ultimately costly assault on Moeen Ali as he calmly progressed to his fifty off 71 balls, assisting the in-form Rogers in improving Australia’s lead.