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74 By Lachlan Harper Anna Pavlou Emily Patterson 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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It's Zachary Gates jumping successful the unrecorded blog arsenic luncheon is taken connected the 2nd time with the Aussies 2-115 and trailing by 168 runs.
It brings to adjacent a dour league astatine The Oval successful which the Aussies mustered conscionable 54 runs from 26 overs, scoring astatine 2.07 runs per over.
Marnus Labuschagne dawdled, making 9 runs from 82 balls. The right-hander departed erstwhile Joe Root took a sublime drawback astatine archetypal slip, which Glenn McGrath described arsenic "unbelievable" connected BBC radio.
Usman Khawaja has besides operated astatine an incredibly dilatory tally rate, taking 152 balls to scope 47 runs.
Khawaja and Steve Smith volition resume connected 47 and 13 respectively aft lunch.
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.
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