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The Ashes 5th Test teams
ENGLAND: 1 Zak Crawley, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Moeen Ali, 4 Joe Root, 5 Harry Brook, 6 Ben Stokes (capt), 7 Jonny Bairstow (wk), 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Mark Wood, 10 Stuart Broad, 11 James Anderson
AUSTRALIA: 1 David Warner, 2 Usman Khawaja, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Pat Cummins (capt), 10 Todd Murphy, 11 Josh Hazlewood
Australia won the flip and elected to tract first
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Broad and teammates entreaty for lbw, successful swinging against Labuschagne.
Looked to beryllium going down the limb side.
No review, Labuschagne salutes the ball.
He lives to spot different ball.
A neat accomplishment for Marnus Labuschagne.
He's notched his 1000th tally successful trial matches against England.
Khawaja and Labuschagne stay successful defence mode, with 20 runs down successful 11 overs for the Aussies.
The Aussies beryllium astatine 1-81.
Marnus Labuschagne has called for a caller bat already.
It comes arsenic the Aussies commencement to get the scoreboard ticking over.
Jimmy Anderson is pushing fuller and wider, arsenic helium rocks Usman Khawaja early.
We're distant connected time two!
Anderson takes the archetypal over.
The bouncy wicket is already a large talking point.
Todd Murphy has told Nine's Mark Taylor that helium was assured helium was connected apical of England's Moeen Ali aft his groin wounded connected time one.
"It was beauteous evident erstwhile Mo wounded himself determination that helium was going to effort and spell ultra aggressive"," Murphy told Taylor connected Nine.
"It was bully to interruption that concern due to the fact that they were starting to roll."
Mark Taylor caught up with Todd Murphy, with the young Australian spinner explaining what it was similar bowling connected time one.
"It's decidedly much of a situation erstwhile you vessel first, particularly time 1 erstwhile there's writer connected the wicket and it's nipping around," Murphy said connected Nine.
"It comes backmost to lowering your expectations a small spot and making definite that each clip you get a chance, you effort and lend that small bit.
"Hopefully the boys get stuck successful and we tin bat big."
England's Moeen Ali volition not tract today, owed to the groin wounded sustained portion batting yesterday.
He'll proceed to beryllium assessed arsenic the time progresses.
Day 2 begins successful conscionable 30 minutes!
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