LIVE: Khawaja eyeing Ashes ton as Aussies fight back

It's Zachary Gates jumping into the unrecorded blog astatine luncheon connected time 2 of the archetypal Ashes Test, and taking attraction of the sum until stumps.

The Aussies are successful a profoundly concerning presumption aft losing David Warner (nine), Marnus Labuschagne (zero) and Steve Smith (16) successful the archetypal league of today's play.

Stuart Broad was connected a hat-trick aft dismissing Warner and Labuschagne successful consecutive balls, earlier Stokes scalped Steve Smith.

And Usman Khawaja (40) and Travis Head are present tasked with resurrecting the Aussies, who are 3-78 and trailing by 315 aft England posted 8-393 declared successful its archetypal dig.

Former Aussie Test spinner Steve O'Keefe has blasted the tourists connected Nine's sum astatine lunch.

"Yeah, let's look it: the Aussies were bullied," O'Keefe said.

"I deliberation adjacent erstwhile the batters archetypal came retired determination were nary sweepers erstwhile Moeen Ali, who hasn't bowled a Test shot successful implicit 18 months — helium had nary sweepers.

"Ben Stokes — determination was a large question people implicit him and his injury. He was capable to settee successful and successful his 2nd implicit was capable to instrumentality a large wicket.

"So 'Bazball' is bullying the Aussies astatine the moment.

"Looking astatine the Aussies, it conscionable looks similar antagonistic cricket, an un-Australian mode of playing," O'Keefe added minutes later.

"Australia connected the backmost foot, tentative with footwork. It's not moving for them astatine the moment. They're hardly going astatine 2 runs an implicit and are doing ... the implicit opposition of what England did successful their archetypal innings erstwhile they had the accidental to bat."