By Lachlan Harper Chris De Silva
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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Brilliant glovework from Alex Carey and Australia has the breakthrough they've craved!
Zak Crawley comes down the wicket and Nathan Lyon fires 1 down the limb side.
It clips Crawley's thigh pad and somewhat deviates but Carey's determination and catches it cleanly earlier whipping the bails off.
Nathan Lyon, you conscionable can't support him retired of the crippled tin you?
Australia has its opening, they'll look to marque it 2 successful a hurry now.
Finally immoderate excitement from the Aussies, who deliberation they might've snuck a stumping disconnected Nathan Lyon!
Ben Duckett goes for a full-blooded saccharine and momentarily loses equilibrium arsenic Alex Carey whips the bails off.
Replays amusement that the England opener has managed to support his backmost ft grounded, lone just.
It's been a superb commencement to this 2nd league by England's openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett.
Crawley has surely looked the much fluent of the two, but Duckett is besides looking progressively comfy arsenic the overs tick along.
Both batters haven't truly taken immoderate risks retired determination and person gone astatine implicit 5 an implicit done the archetypal 15 overs of the innings.
Crawley connected 46 disconnected 44 deliveries, portion Duckett is 30 disconnected 46.
England and Australia travel retired and they're acceptable to resume battle. We've got a monolithic league coming up successful the discourse of this match.
"What we're seeing contiguous could beryllium the champion of the batting conditions," says Ricky Ponting connected commentary.
Can the location broadside instrumentality vantage of it?
Mitchell Starc with the shot acceptable to unleash connected Ben Duckett.
England survives the gruelling small mini-session to get to luncheon safely.
There was a flimsy scare for Zak Crawley aft helium survived a monolithic lbw outcry disconnected Mitchell Starc.
The hosts spell into the interruption 0-13 aft 4 overs.
Josh Hazlewood edges Ollie Robinson to archetypal gaffe and Australia's innings is officially wrapped up for 416.
Match evenly placed you'd think, with Australia possibly somewhat ahead, but England volition beryllium blessed to person taken the past 5 wickets for 77 runs today.
Nathan Lyon's cameo comes to extremity successful a hurry!
England peppered him with abbreviated balls and though Lyon got a fewer distant to the bound helium holes retired successful the deep.
After striking a fewer overs agone Josh Tongue takes the drawback astatine heavy good limb disconnected the bowling of Ollie Robinson.
Steve Smith has to spell soon aft reaching triple figures!
It's the recalled paceman Josh Tongue who does the instrumentality erstwhile again for Ben Stokes and England.
Tongue's present taken retired Smith, Warner and Khawaja, a beauteous bully outing you'd think.
Right then, it's the concern that ruined England astatine Edgbaston arsenic Nathan Lyon joins Pat Cummins successful the middle.
England volition privation to wrapper this up arsenic speedy arsenic possible.