LIVE: Aussies resume battle in ominous conditions

It's evident aboriginal connected present that Australia volition not beryllium warring occurrence with fire, with England bowling 3 maiden overs to commencement the day.

Khawaja and Warner precise watchful retired determination with Anderson starting to get this shot hooping astir a small bit.

We've got Andrea Bocelli playing implicit the speakers wrong Edgbaston.

Stuart Broad with the ball, David Warner facing up.

HERE. WE. GO!

There's conscionable a five-minute hold to the commencement of play contiguous arsenic the outfield is roped.

Play is acceptable to get underway successful astir 3 minutes.

Nathan Lyon says helium and his teammates are blessed with however Australia took connected BazBall connected time one.

Former Australian skipper Mark Taylor is 1 antheral who was precise impressed by Ben Stokes' captaincy connected time one.

"He said, 'I don't attraction whether we're playing Australia oregon Ireland, we're going to play the aforesaid way. We're going to play a caller marque of English cricket', truthful good done to him," helium says connected Nine's coverage.

"Australia's effect to the mode England are playing is simply a small spot defensive, truthful already I deliberation Ben Stokes has won that small caput conflict to commencement with.

"You could spot what the declaration did to Australia. When they came out, the moving betwixt the wickets betwixt Warner and Khawaja, 2 guys who person been astir a agelong time, was astir shambolic astatine times.

"There was 2 oregon 3 times wherever we astir had tally outs, each due to the fact that Australia weren't acceptable to bat."

We had beauteous bluish skies astatine Edgbaston connected time one, but with time 2 approaching, the signs are little promising.

The covers are presently connected and there's a batch of unreality screen overhead. England won't beryllium excessively unhappy astir that, due to the fact that with these overhead conditions, that shot mightiness plaything around.

There's a 40-year-old successful the English dressing country by the sanction of James Anderson who volition beryllium perfectly licking his lips astatine the imaginable of getting his hands connected the Dukes shot this greeting successful these conditions.

Amid each the speech of BazBall and whether England would beryllium capable to bash it and whether Australia would beryllium capable to halt it, Zak Crawley had an emphatic commencement to the series.

The England opener flayed the archetypal shot from Australia's skipper Pat Cummins to the boundary, sparking chaotic scenes wrong Edgbaston.

It was the archetypal clip the archetypal shot of an Ashes Test had been deed for 4 since Michael Slater did it to Darren Gough astatine Headingley successful 2001.

Slater was besides the batter who past deed the archetypal shot of an Ashes bid to the boundary, doing it to Phil DeFreitas astatine the Gabba successful 1994.

The 407 runs scored by England and Australia represented the adjacent astir for an opening time of an Ashes Test, tying the 407 deed by England successful the opening time of the 2005 Edgbaston Test.

England's innings lasted conscionable 78 overs earlier they were called successful by Ben Stokes, it was the fourth-shortest archetypal innings of a men's Test to beryllium declared connected the opening, the shortest being Pakistan's 44.5 overs successful 1974 against England astatine Lord's.

England has present posted 5 totals of 350 oregon much portion going astatine a tally complaint of implicit 5 runs an implicit since June 2022.

Joe Root's unbeaten 113 was his archetypal Ashes period since the 2015 bid wherever helium tonned up successful Nottingham. The England prima went 12 fifties and 31 innings betwixt Ashes centuries.