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Australia keep control of day-night Test

Cameron Green was one of three Australia wickets to fall as the hosts reached 5-302 against England. (AAP)

Australia are sticking to a pink-ball script after passing the crucial 300-run barrier and keeping themselves in control of the day-night Ashes Tes against England.

The hosts went to the first break on day two with the score at 5-302, with centurion Marnus Labuschagne one of three batters dismissed before dinner in Adelaide.

But with Steve Smith still at the crease on 55 and Alex Carey beside him on five, the hosts have control over the timing of the game and the ability to hand their quicks the new ball under lights.

That timing is evident in the fact all eight teams who have posted 300 or more batting first in day-night Tests have gone on to win.

And the eight teams to pull up short of that mark have all lost.

As was the case on the opening day, Australia started patiently before Smith began to take the game on and go after England's shorter-pitch balls.

England also took the same approach as the first day, banging the ball in once it got older with legside fields as they seemed happy to contain Australia.

Friday began with Labuschagne on the verge of his first Ashes century and the Queenslander brought up his ton when he edged Jimmy Anderson to the third-man boundary.

He was caught behind off an Ollie Robinson no-ball on 102 but his reprieve was short-lived, dismissed lbw in the quick's next over after adding one more to his score.

Travis Head came and went for 18, playing two lovely cut shots off Chris Woakes before being bowled playing over the top of a ball from Joe Root with the dinner break in sight.

And Cameron Green soon followed for two, bowled by Ben Stokes when the England allrounder pitched up and the delivery seamed away into his off stump.

Green's dismissal came after a first-ball duck in his only innings in Brisbane when he was also bowled.

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