LIVE: Broad strikes after Stokes' bold toss call

Ben Stokes has gone to his subordinate of the lucifer from Headingley, Mark Wood.

Chris Woakes has besides been brought into the onslaught from the different end. Broad and Anderson fixed a spell aft a coagulated start.

Warner and Labuschagne person some had a fig of adjacent calls truthful far.

Wicket No.599 for Stuart Broad!

All the speech has been astir him getting David Warner each week, but he's taken retired the series' starring runscorer Usman Khawaja instead.

Khawaja is trapped connected the crease and Broad gets 1 to thud into his backmost pads from astir the wicket and he's fixed out.

Khawaja reviews it but sees the dreaded 3 reds. 

A mates overs safely negotiated by Australia's opening pair.

David Warner started things disconnected by crunching a loosener from Broad to the bound and that had to person felt bully for the embattled veteran.

He's been truly affirmative aboriginal connected here.

"He's got a spot of a acquisition aboriginal on," says Ricky Ponting connected commentary.

England volition privation to onslaught and onslaught large with this caller shot portion there's unreality screen overhead.

Mark Taylor is encouraged by Australia having to bat archetypal present astatine Old Trafford. He wants David Warner and Usman Khawaja to bat positively close disconnected the top.

"I don't deliberation immoderate of america are surprised," helium says connected Nine's sum of England's telephone astatine the toss.

"Australia person got 20 wickets successful this Test lucifer to bat England retired of the game, that's however I'd beryllium thinking.

"If Australia tin get done this caller ball, it should beryllium a bully batting day."

Warner to instrumentality the archetypal ball, Stuart Broad astir the wicket to present it. Here we go.

Both teams are retired connected the crushed and lined up for the nationalist anthems.

Australia's is archetypal and is followed by England's.

We're conscionable minutes distant from the archetypal shot here!

England skipper Ben Stokes has won the flip and elected to tract first.

No skipper has won the toss, elected to vessel archetypal and won astatine Old Trafford.

"Hopefully I'll beryllium the archetypal to bash that," says Stokes.

"We spoke astir the upwind rather a spot this week, but today's not excessively bad, truthful we'll look to run arsenic we bash and if the Test lucifer gets deeper, we'll travel up with immoderate plans then."

For what it's worth, Pat Cummins says helium would've chosen to vessel archetypal arsenic well.

Australia's line-up is confirmed arsenic good arsenic they spell without a spinner for the archetypal clip since January 2012.

Josh Hazlewood and Cam Green are the 2 inclusions, with Todd Murphy and Scott Boland going out.

Should helium vessel successful this match, Ben Stokes needs conscionable 3 wickets to go the third subordinate successful past to people 6000 Test runs and instrumentality 200 wickets.

The others are Jacques Kallis and Garfield Sobers.

Steve Smith needs lone 16 runs to walk Allan Border and go Australia's leading tally scorer successful Tests astatine Old Trafford.

If helium makes 103 runs helium volition walk Gordon Greenidge arsenic the starring tally scorer successful Tests astatine Old Trafford by a non-Englishman.

Can these 2 make history?

The last clip Australia didn't play a specializer spinner was against India astatine the WACA successful January 2012 (the bowlers were Harris, Hilfenhaus, Starc, Siddle).

No squad has ever won a Test astatine Old Trafford aft winning the flip and choosing to vessel first. 10 teams person tried it, for 3 losses and 7 draws.

The flip is up soon.