LIVE: Stokes tons up after incredible explosion

Oh nary Steve Smith!

Ben Stokes has started the league successful a flurry by walloping Josh Hazlewood into the stands Stokes tries to instrumentality connected different abbreviated 1 but ends up hitting it to Steve Smith connected the bound connected the limb side.

Smith runs successful and spills it and there's monolithic cheers from the Lord's crowd.

"History is repeating itself here. One of the champion fielders successful the satellite has dropped an implicit dolly," says Nasser Hussain.

The players are backmost retired and we're getting underway for the 2nd session.

Josh Hazlewood to commencement things disconnected for Autralia. England with 128 to get and the skipper Ben Stokes connected strike.

The players spell into the rooms for luncheon and there's been a sizeable momentum displacement since the Bairstow wicket.

England heads into the interruption having pounded 129 runs for the nonaccomplishment of conscionable 2 wickets successful that session, and the interruption has travel astatine a bully clip for the Aussies.

Plenty of chatter betwixt Broad and the Aussies arsenic the players caput into the rooms.

The Aussies are being booed arsenic they caput done the Lord's greenish room, the locals are NOT happy.

"This is going to beryllium each implicit an hr aft lunch, 1 mode oregon another," says Mark Taylor connected Nine's coverage.

The 50 concern comes up betwixt Ben Stokes and Stuart Broad, and of the 50, Broad has lend precisely 1 run.

Stokes has 46 disconnected 21 successful the concern and the 50 has travel up successful conscionable 29 deliveries.

What tin Australia bash to stem the momentum?

This is unbelievable theatre astatine Lord's!

England's skipper has brought connected his period aft dispatching Cam Green for 3 consecutive sixes.

He hardly celebrates the milestone, that's however locked successful helium is. 

"Unbelievable by Ben Stokes, shades of Headingley again," says Andrew Strauss connected commentary.

"England's Superman comes to the enactment again. How galore times tin 1 antheral bash it?

"Australia volition beryllium highly disquieted with him astatine the crease due to the fact that it each happens truthful quickly."

Ben Stokes has shifted gears into T20 mode present arsenic helium bats with the process and it's a changeable a shot astatine the infinitesimal from England's captain.

He steps distant and looks to flay 1 down the crushed disconnected Pat Cummins and whacks it consecutive astatine the Aussie skipper, who is incapable to clasp the pugnacious chance.

Stuart Broad talking plentifulness of smack from the non-striker's end. There's a batch of feeling successful this 1 now. The Lord's assemblage is baying for blood.

MORE ASHES CONTROVERSY!

Jonny Bairstow ducks nether a abbreviated pitched transportation and walks towards the centre of the transportation to person a chat to Ben Stokes astatine the non-striker's end.

Alex Carey, realising the Englishman has gone quickly, throws the stumps down and it's fixed out!

Bairstow cannot judge it, and it's just to accidental there's a mixed absorption connected societal media for this.

"That's retired for mine. Good reasoning from Alex Carey, keeping the batter connected his toes," says Callum Ferguson connected Nine's coverage.

"That's not uncommon from a keeper."

Australia has their archetypal wicket of time 5 and it comes from a superb drawback from Alex Carey!

Josh Hazlewood bangs 1 successful abbreviated and it gets large connected Ben Duckett arsenic helium looks to propulsion it.

It catches the opener's apical borderline and looks destined to alert implicit the keeper's caput for 4 earlier Carey sticks retired a mit and takes it.

Australia are perfectly implicit the moon, what a immense wicket!