BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Mitchell Starc has been menacing England with the ball in this Ashes series. Now he’s doing damage with the bat, too.

At stumps on Day 3 of the second test, England was teetering on 134-6 in its second innings and still needed to score 43 runs to make Australia bat again.

England skipper Ben Stokes and allrounder Will Jacks were both not out 4 at the end of play Saturday.

Starc was voted player of the match for his 10-wicket haul in Australia’s thumping eight-wicket win in the series opener at Perth last month.

He’s in line for another award in the day-night test in Brisbane. After taking six wickets in England’s first innings of 334 on Days 1 and 2, he scored an innings-high 77 as Australia responded with 511 on Saturday afternoon and then took two wickets

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