By Simon Smale and Henry Hanson from ABC
Travis Head celebrates another milestone for Australia. Photo: AAP/Photosport
Australia has seen off a dogged, mini resurgence from England to maintain control of the third Ashes test on day three in Adelaide.
Travis Head (142 not out) scored a magnificent home-ground century - his fourth in as many tests at Adelaide Oval - and Carey (52 not out) made a half-ton to go with his first-innings century, as the Aussies closed on 271/4, leading England by 356 runs.
England had made things tough for Australia at times, with Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer both scoring half centuries, as part of a grinding 106-run partnership, but were also their own worst enemies, as Harry Brook dropped Head on 99 in yet another deflating moment for the tourists.
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Although England have said in the past they are happy to chase down any score, this emotionally scarred and shattered team look about as likely to pull off a miracle chase over the next two days, as snow stopping play in the city of churches.
England resumed on day three with Stokes and Archer in the middle, and together, they frustrated the Australian bowlers, who toiled on a flat pitch.
Both men played patiently and accumulated runs, before Stokes was bowled by arch-nemesis Mitch Starc for 83, the England skipper almost apoplectic with rage at his lapse of concentration.
Shorn of its head, the Hydra of England's tail was quickly subdued, before it could thrash any more runs, with Scott Boland claiming the wicket of Archer for his highest test score of 51, caught at slip by Marnus Labuschagne.
That last partnership - a record for an English ninth-wicket pairing in Adelaide - ensured the tourists were only 85 runs behind, when they had faced a deficit in excess of 150.
Australia's openers faced a tricky 20-minute spell before lunch and lost a wicket, Jake Weatherald unlucky to be given out leg before wicket to a Brydon Carse delivery that pitched outside leg stump - although it was his own error not to challenge the decision.
Australia lost another soon after lunch, when Labuschagne edged behind to Brook, who took a fine catch off the bowling of Josh Tongue.
England had to do without the bowling of Stokes, who appeared to be suffering a groin injury, as Usman Khawaja and Head continued on their way.
Without a frontline spinner to call on, England part-timers Will Jacks and Joe Root struggled to impress, particularly an erratic spell after tea from Jacks.
However, the Surrey all-rounder prised out Khawaja with a rank long hop that the underfire veteran bottom-edged into the gloves of Jamie Smith for 40.
Tongue made it two wickets in two overs, when Cameron Green was claimed in identical fashion to Labuschagne, edging to slip, where Brook dived forward to take a fine low catch.
From there on, the two South Australian left-handers, Head and Carey, took complete control, with a century partnership that batted England out of the game.
Carey backed up his superb first-innings ton with a 84-ball 50 in the second, never looking like getting out, as both locals dominated in front of adoring 53,696 supporters.
The last time two South Australia-born batters combined for a century partnership at Adelaide Oval was 1898.
For England, it must seem like a test victory on these shores is similarly distant.
- ABC
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