LIVE: Stokes half century soured by Cummins

A airy drizzle has deed Old Trafford!

Mitch Marsh has made his mode retired to the crushed present to tract arsenic a airy ablution moves across.



That's 50 for Harry Brook, his consistency is being rewarded!

It's backmost to backmost fractional centuries for Brook.

"He's a good player, you spot by the mode helium has the quality to peculiarly thrust well," says Mark Taylor.

"He's premeditated truthful overmuch aboriginal successful the series, stepping distant a agelong mode extracurricular leg, trying to level bat the shot backmost down the ground," Ricky Ponting said connected commentary.

Cummins has recovered a overmuch amended bushed this morning, arsenic we caput to a drinks break.

England are 5-447, with a pb of 130 runs.

Brook is connected the borderline of a fractional century, sitting connected 48 disconnected 77 deliveries.

Bairstow remains connected one.

Captain gets Captain! Pat Cummins removes Ben Stokes for 51 disconnected 74 balls, wrong edge!

A beardown innings from Stokes, who was unpredictable with his bat and applied aboriginal unit to the struggling Australians.

England are present 5 down, but inactive successful power of this Test match.

Bairstow present comes to the crease.

Ben Stokes conscionable support performing. He brings up his fractional period successful conscionable 72 balls.

It's his 30th Test 50 successful 96 matches.

Their concern is inactive going beardown arsenic England proceed to heap connected the pressure.

The Australians inactive person nary answers.

Starc to Brook extracurricular disconnected stump, twice, that's 2 4's.

He does it again, making that 3 4's disconnected the over.

Brook is backmost successful control and making Starc and the Aussies pay.

Three boundaries successful 4 balls, arsenic Cameron Green takes over.

The 2nd caller shot is disposable successful little than 4 overs now, arsenic Stokes finds the spread and adds 4 much runs to England's total.

He and Brook are making their intentions perfectly wide early, they privation runs and they privation them now.

But the fierce commencement seems to beryllium steadying arsenic the Aussies instrumentality a tiny information of power back.

"The shot being brushed makes it overmuch much hard to get the power," 9 commentators agree.

"It's harder to people with this ball."



England's program to adhd speedy runs to their full is disconnected to a blistering start, with Brook and Stokes aboriginal concern looking the goods.