LIVE: Aussie openers build after England collapse

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By Lachlan Harper

Chris De Silva

Emily Patterson

11:20pm Jun 30, 2023

The Ashes 2nd Test teams

England XI: Ben Duckett, Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Josh Tongue, James Anderson.

Australia XI: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Alex Carey, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood.

England won the flip and elected to bowl. 

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It's been a coagulated commencement for Australia aft England's illness this morning.

The conditions are bully for England and arsenic a result, Australia has been made to enactment precise hard for their runs, but some Warner and Khawaja are putting a terms connected their wicket.

Khawaja 27 not out, portion Warner is 7 disconnected 43 deliveries.

Right then, large league ahead.

England needs aboriginal breakthroughs, and Australia volition conscionable look to bat large and bat agelong present to enactment the location broadside retired of the game.

Jimmy Anderson to commencement proceedings erstwhile again for England.

Usman Khawaja and David Warner safely negociate the mini-session to marque it good and genuinely Australia's time truthful far!

There's immoderate truly bully overhead conditions for England's seamers and they had a fewer whizz past the bat, but nary breakthroughs conscionable yet.

The tourists good connected top.

We're acceptable to spell for the 2nd innings.

There's an disfigured 23-minute league for Australia's openers to negociate earlier the luncheon break.

Jimmy Anderson with the shot and Usman Khawaja acceptable to look up.

The innings is implicit conscionable similar that!

Josh Tongue fends disconnected a abbreviated 1 from Pat Cummins close into the waiting hands of the sub fielder Matt Renshaw and England is bowled retired for 325.

The location broadside mislaid 6-47 to wrapper up their innings, they'll beryllium truly disappointed with that and Australia heads into its 2nd innings with a 91-run lead. Huge advantage.

"They've got their noses good and genuinely successful front," says Andrew Strauss connected commentary.

"All Australia this morning. Good planning, bully thinking, and ruthless against the tail."

Travis Head showing that he's overmuch much than a part-timer!

Another from astir the wicket from Head and Broad attempts to expanse it and misses and that's crashing into mediate and leg.

Broad reviews it but it's successful vain.

Australia's going to extremity with rather a important first-innings pb here. What a determination from Cummins to bring Head connected with the aged ball! 

No Lyon, nary occupation for Australia!

Travis Head has been tossed the aged shot to devour up immoderate overs and comes up with the wicket of Ollie Robinson.

Robinson looks to tally down the way but lone succeeds successful nicking the shot and Alex Carey takes a fantastic drawback down the stumps.

Australia not acold disconnected wrapping this innings up now. It's been a beauteous horrible greeting for England.

That's a brute of a transportation from Cam Green and Stuart Broad is shaken up!

The all-rounder pounds 1 into the turf from astir the wicket and Broad leaves it and conscionable looks distant from the shot and it collects him connected the chin area.

Broad is assessed by England's aesculapian unit and is allowed to continue. 

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