The Ashes, SCG Test: Jonny Bairstow hundred drives England fightback against Australia on Day 3

The Ashes, SCG Test: Johnny Bairstow scored England's first hundred of the series to lead the tourists' fightback after a torrid start to the third day of the fourth Test on Friday.

Jonny Bairstow's heroic hundred and a half-century from Ben Stokes helped England register a fightback after a terrible start to the third day of the fourth Ashes Test on Friday at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Stumps in Sydney Jonny Bairstow's gritty century leads England's fightback on day three!#AUSvENG | #WTC23 | #Ashes pic.twitter.com/bxmhtWl6i9

Bairstow's gutsy 103 not out helped his side to 258 for seven in reply to Australia's 416/8 declared, a position that looked highly unlikely when England limped battered and bruised to lunch on 36 for four.