LIVE: Root's miracle catch sends Labuschagne packing

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By Lachlan Harper

Anna Pavlou

Emily Patterson

Zachary Gates

9:36pm Jul 28, 2023

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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Steve Smith is disconnected the people quickly, arsenic the caller batting concern settee into the crease together.

Let's relive that Joe Root catch!

Labuschagne retired for an uncharacteristic 9, aft facing 82 balls.

Beaten by an retired swinger, beaten by the extracurricular edge, with Joe Root taking a magnificent near handed catch!

High prime accelerated bowling by Mark Woods is rewarded with an adjacent amended catch!

Wowee!

Khawaja breaks done slightly, smacking a three.

Broad inactive isn't satisfied with the shot arsenic Labuschagne strikes for a single.

The Australian brace look to beryllium settling successful nicely.

Australia are struggling to rotate the strike, with fewer singles coming their way. 1-82 astatine Drinks.

The assertive England bowling is making a connection early, restricting the Aussie's tally on.

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.

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