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63 By Chris De Silva Lachlan Harper Zachary Gates
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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The Aussies are TEARING done the English!
Josh Hazlewood grabs the Aussies' sixth wicket arsenic helium gets Jonny Bairstow to chop connected for four, earlier Mitchell Starc draws the extracurricular borderline of Harry Brook's bat, Steve Smith taking a drawback successful the slips.
Brook falls aft pummelling 85 from 91.
"Edge, gone, Smith harmless hands," Ian Wards says successful commentary arsenic England slips to 7-212.
"England are falling isolated here."
Mitchell Starc sends Ben Stokes packing with a BEAUTY!
Charging successful bowling implicit the wicket, the left-arm speedster lets the shot rips, gets it to plaything and seam, and rips retired Stokes' disconnected peg.
The England skipper tries to crook the shot done the limb broadside but is done each ends up, losing his wicket for three.
"Bowled him, what a beauty, Stokes looking to play limb broadside has been squared up and his disconnected pole is retired of the ground," Ian Ward says successful commentary arsenic England falls to 5-193.
"That is simply a corker."
Michael Atherton is impressed.
"Excellent transportation from Starc," helium says successful commentary.
A Pat Cummins bowling alteration comes up trumps arsenic Todd Murphy strikes!
Moeen Ali smokes Murphy for 4 done midwicket but is bowled a shot later, Murphy rattling the stumps arsenic England's archetypal driblet takes a plaything crossed the line.
England falls to 4-184 arsenic Moeen departs for 34.
Ben Stokes strides to the mediate to articulation Harry Brook, who's struck 68 from 67.
And that's a 100-run concern betwixt Harry Brook and Moeen Ali.
The period basal comes from 102 balls with Brook contributing 66 runs and Moeen 18.
Worrying signs for Moeen Ali arsenic England's archetypal driblet pulls up lame aft dashing done for a single.
England's specializer spinner grabs his groin and is soon successful the hands of aesculapian assistance connected the ground.
Play resumes soon aft with Moeen on 11.
An intriguing concern to support an oculus on.
Harry Brooke bunts the shot wide of gully and scurries done for a azygous to bring up a half-century.
The young gun's 50 comes from conscionable 44 balls and moves the English to 3-137.
It's Zachary Gates jumping successful the unrecorded blog arsenic the 2nd league of time 1 begins.
Pat Cummins has the stone and Moeen Ali is connected onslaught arsenic England resumes connected 3-131.
At 3/131, you'd person to reason this opening league is reasonably adjacent arsenic luncheon is taken.
Australia volition rue a fig of chances with 3 dropped catches, including Harry Brook who is presently 48 not out.
Pat Cummins was 1 of the champion with the shot and erstwhile Australian Test skipper Mark Taylor was afloat of praise.
"Very impressive. Firstly, won the toss. First clip successful the bid he's won the toss. Elected to bowl, which I thought was a brave decision. Probably the close one," helium said connected Nine's coverage.
"It was surely doing capable to warrant a bowl. His spell truly did crook things astir from an Australian constituent of view. 0/62 astatine 1 stage, England, going on nicely.
"As I said, 3/131, helium volition beryllium happy, but a small disappointed they didn't get 1 oregon 2 much wickets."
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