LIVE: Frustrated Broad lashes 'soulless' pitch

It's been a batting-dominated archetypal 2 days of the Ashes with conscionable 13 wickets falling portion 704 runs person been scored betwixt the 2 teams.

While there's lone been 2 players to scope the triple-figure mark, Joe Root and Usman Khawaja, English paceman Stuart Broad doesn't similar what he's seen retired of the pitch.

"How tin I beryllium polite [about the pitch]?" Broad told the BBC.

"It is simply a precise slow, debased aboveground that zaps the vigor retired of the ball. It is beauteous characterless truthful far, beauteous soulless, but you tin lone justice a aboveground towards the extremity of the lucifer and spot however it develops.

"I'm not truly a large no-ball bowler ... I person astir apt bowled much contiguous than successful a Test lucifer time before. There's nary excuse.

"But it is the archetypal innings of an Ashes Test match, you person immoderate large emotions determination truthful you are trying to summation vigor from the aboveground and possibly pushing a small spot excessively hard.

"It is surely 1 of the slowest pitches I tin retrieve bowling connected successful England... hopefully it is not a inclination for the full series.

"It's been a gruelling time connected a transportation that has offered precise small truthful far."