LIVE: Dominant England achieves 12-year Ashes first

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By Zachary Gates

Lachlan Harper

Anna Pavlou

10:01pm Jul 21, 2023

The Ashes 2023 4th Test teams

ENGLAND: 1 Zak Crawley, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Moeen Ali, 4 Joe Root, 5 Harry Brook, 6 Ben Stokes (c), 7 Jonny Bairstow (wk), 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Mark Wood, 11 James Anderson

AUSTRALIA: 1 David Warner, 2 Usman Khawaja, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steve Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Cameron Green, 8 Alex Carey (wk), 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Pat Cummins (c), 11 Josh Hazlewood

England won the flip and elected to field

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Josh Hazlewood collects his 4th wicket arsenic helium rips retired Mark Wood's disconnected stump, removing the tailender for six.

The teams interruption for luncheon with England connected 8-506 successful reply to Australia's 317 each out.

Jonny Bairstow has made 41 from lone 39 balls.

Josh Hazlewood has Chris Woakes caught down arsenic England falls to 7-486, but successful different denotation of the hosts' domination, they bring up 500 soon after.

This is the archetypal clip since the 2011 Sydney Test that the English person scored 500 runs successful a Test innings against Australia.

They pb by 184 aft rolling the Aussies for 317, with Jonny Bairstow ticking on nicely connected 40 and Mark Wood connected two.

Hazelwood breaks through, arsenic we accidental goodbye to Harry Brook, caught astatine good limb by Mitchell Starc.

England are present 6 wickets down.

He made 61 disconnected 100 balls, giving England a 157 tally lead.

Chris Woakes comes to the crease present to spouse Bairstow.

Travis Head volition vessel conscionable the singular over, arsenic Australia instrumentality the 2nd caller ball.

Mitch Starc is backmost into the attack.

Mark Taylor loves that the Australians are inactive pushing for a contention earlier luncheon by taking the caller ball.

"It inactive sends the close connection that 'we're inactive trying to get you out'...we're trying to enactment successful the contest," says Taylor connected commentary.

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.

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