- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR0.1 knocks him over first ball! Full yorker which crashes into the base of leg stump. Burns is nowhere, falling over to the off side as he looks to clip off the pads. Angled into the left-hander from over the wicket, but this actually tailed away late and sharply to hit the base of leg stump. What a start from Starc! 0/126.4 thick outside edge, and Smith pouches it at second slip! Cummins is slightly wider on the crease and a fraction fuller in length. Healthy movement away off the seam as Hameed prods forward defensively. The nip away means it takes the outside edge, and Smith holds on in the cordon after a slight juggle. Not sure Hameed needed to play at that, but he was sucked in. The new leadership duo combine 60/53.2 nicked him off, Hazlewood strikes! Textbook Hazlewood. Just a fraction back of length, angling across the left-hander, and plenty of bounce with a hint of nip off the seam. Malan doesn't need to play at it, but dangles his bat and his thick outside edge is gobbled up by Carey, who has his first catch in Test cricket 11/25.5 edged and gobbled up at first slip! Perfect set-up from Hazlewood and Root has a duck. England three down inside the first half-hour. Hazlewood forced Root onto the back foot with the previous ball, finding some nip back into the right-hander, and now draws him forward. He presses at it but it kisses the outside edge with just a hint of nibble away off the seam, and Warner takes a sharp chance at slip. Went slightly wider on the crease 11/312.4 squared up and a thick edge sails to third slip! Patty C has his first wicket as skip, and it's a big one! Just back of a length, rearing at the body and Stokes fences, the ball straightens and he can only steer it towards Labuschagne, who dives to his left for a low catch. Reports of the Gabbatoir's demise have been exaggerated! 29/443.1 dug in short, Pope top-edges a hook... and Hazlewood takes a blinder! First Test wicket for Cam Green, and it's one to remember! He's mobbed by his team-mates as Pope trudges off. Extra bounce from the towering allrounder and Pope couldn't keep it down, but Green still has Hazlewood to thank for hauling ass around the rope and then throwing himself full length to bag the catch 118/740.3 gottim, feathered through! Starc finds the edge, finds a response for Australia. Tight line on off stump, slung across the right-hander and it kicks up to graze the bat, Buttler feeling for it reflexively when he could perhaps have left on length. Had to wait a while for No.2 but Starc does the job again for his captain 112/650.1 Hazlewood tumbles at fine leg, FIVE for Cummins! His first in Ashes Tests, and his first as Australia's captain! Not all that short but Woakes wasn't in control as he swung blindly and got a top edge... work still to do once again, but Hazlewood makes it look easy. Everything Cummins up nicely for Australia so far, England rolled for 147 after choosing to bat 147/1044.3 pitched up and nicked off! Yeroutofhere! Easy as that for captain Cummins, who adds to the procession by seeing off Robinson with a textbook three-card trick: couple of short ones then dangle a drive ball. Another duck for England. It's hunting season once again at the Gabba 122/848.3 bumped off, fended straight to short leg! Wood knows he's going to get peppered but can't do anything about it, bottom hand coming off as the ball pops up off the handle into the waiting mitts of Marcus Harris. Cummins has four, England still haven't made 150 - this captaincy lark is easy! 144/9Extras6 (lb 5, w 1)TOTAL147 all out (50.1 Overs, RR: 2.93)Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Rory Burns, 0.1 ov), 2-11 (Dawid Malan, 3.2 ov), 3-11 (Joe Root, 5.5 ov), 4-29 (Ben Stokes, 12.4 ov), 5-60 (Haseeb Hameed, 26.4 ov), 6-112 (Jos Buttler, 40.3 ov), 7-118 (Ollie Pope, 43.1 ov), 8-122 (Ollie Robinson, 44.3 ov), 9-144 (Mark Wood, 48.3 ov), 10-147 (Chris Woakes, 50.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB MA Starc 12 2 35 2 2.91 0 0 JR Hazlewood 13 4 42 2 3.23 0 0 PJ Cummins 13.1 3 38 5 2.88 1 0 NM Lyon 9 2 21 0 2.33 0 0 C Green 3 1 6 1 2.00 0 0
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- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR55.2 scooped into the covers, and Stokes holds this one! Warner gone in the 90s, his luck finally running out... Seemed to be done by a lack of pace, although I'm not sure if that was deliberate or just a post-tea loosener. Length ball, Warner lunged at it, but only managed to balloon the ball into the covers. Immediately you could see his lips forming a Darth Vader: "Noooooooooooooo!!!" 195/45.2 Robinson makes the breakthrough, Harris gobbled up in the cordon! Excellent length again, starting on the stumps and then seaming just a fraction - enough to draw a nibble from Harris, thick outside edge and Malan snares a good low catch at third slip. England amongst 'em 10/147.2 cut straight to point! Leach makes the breakthrough after 6.1 overs of punishment. Loose shot from Labuschagne who was looking to hit every ball for a boundary. Not Leach's best ball by any means, dropping a fraction short, but Labuschagne was taken by surprise by a hint of extra bounce and slapped it straight to Wood at point. England finally hold onto a chance! Slight top edge, and Marnus is furious with himself as he slinks off 166/252.6 edged and gone! Wood finally gets his reward. Wide on the crease again, banged in on a length, in the channel outside his off stump. Smith had an awkward fiddle at it without moving his feet and fiddled a thin edge through to Buttler. Wood's back foot was close to the return crease but not close enough for Smith to survive! No real movement off the seam, just a false shot by Smith who was rushed by Wood's extra pace 189/3104.3 timber! Head backs away, giving himself plenty of room outside leg to try and flay a cross-batted shot away through the covers. But Wood goes full and straight, and his lethal yorker rearranges Head's stumps 425/1055.3 bowled not playing a shot! Robinson has two in two! Precisely calibrated nip-backer, kisses the top of off stump as Green plants the front foot! A hopeful leave, I think, but it came back a fair way. Eerie silence around the Gabba. Can England wrest back the momentum? 195/564.4 swatted straight to midwicket! Carey swishes his bat in anger at himself, came off the toe and picked out the man... first wicket for Woakes and it keeps England hanging in there. Back of a length and inviting the pull shot, but Carey neither went fully aerial or tried to keep it down 236/675.6 caught at leg slip! Captain gets captain. Fullish in length, down the leg side from wide on the crease round the wicket. Cummins looked to clip it away behind square but got a thickish inside edge, and Hameed held onto a relatively straightforward low catch. Muted celebrations from England. Cummins whacks his pad with his bat on his way off 306/795.6 goes big, but holes out to deep square leg! Pace off and Starc miscues it to the one boundary rider out there... Finally England get the breakthrough, second wicket of a persevering display from Woakes. No problem for Burns holding on to this one 391/8102.3 banged in short, Lyon takes on the pull again and skews it straight up to square leg. Deserved reward for Wood, who has toiled hard for a day and a bit. Got big on him, hit the splice of the bat, and a straightforward catch for Robinson 420/9Extras16 (b 4, lb 6, nb 4, w 2)TOTAL425 all out (104.3 Overs, RR: 4.06)Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Marcus Harris, 5.2 ov), 2-166 (Marnus Labuschagne, 47.2 ov), 3-189 (Steven Smith, 52.6 ov), 4-195 (David Warner, 55.2 ov), 5-195 (Cameron Green, 55.3 ov), 6-236 (Alex Carey, 64.4 ov), 7-306 (Pat Cummins, 75.6 ov), 8-391 (Mitchell Starc, 95.6 ov), 9-420 (Nathan Lyon, 102.3 ov), 10-425 (Travis Head, 104.3 ov)
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR20.6 feathered down the leg side, Starc's wonky radar somehow hits paydirt! Short ball, rising towards the armpit and for all the world looks like more easy runs - only for Hameed to get a little tucked up and tickle a glove through to Carey! Up goes the finger and Hameed won't linger. Looked good again, but doesn't last 61/28.6 ripsnorter takes the glove - Burns is gone! First one goes and it's the skipper again. That's just taken off from slightly back of a length, and although you can say Burns could have left it alone, that's with the benefit of hindsight. Wanted to cut but it was at him before he could really commit, kissing the fingers of the bottom hand on its way through 23/173.4 skips down, squeezes the ball into the front pad - finally, Lyon roars for 400! All the Australians were appealing for this one, and Rod Tucker's finger goes up for the catch at bat-pad! Malan knows he's hit this, too, and turns on his heel for the dressing room. Australia get the early wicket they desperately needed, and Lyon's 11-month-long wait on 399 is over 223/376.1 Root fiddles and is caught behind, the wait for a ton in Oz goes on! Oh my, what an opening half hour for Australia! Cameron Green gets the big fish, very similar to the one that nearly tempted Root from the final ball of the day last night. Full enough in the channel to get him pushing out, though without any real conviction, and it's a feather edge through to Carey. Root drags himself away looking thoroughly cheesed off. No hundred, and no margin for error for his side now 229/488.4 caught in the gully! Cummins gets Stokes and England slip further towards defeat. Big trigger movement across to the off side and Cummins manages to square him up with a hint of movement off the seam. Skews away into the gully off the outside edge, high on the bat as the face closes in his hands and Green takes the catch, tumbling to his left. England six down and still behind! 266/677.3 Lyon snaffles another! Rip and bounce with Pope looking to cut and then having to readjust, ends up practically punching to slip! Australians whoop and sing as Pope mooches off, the old Gabba magic is quickly reasserting itself 234/591.1 nicked off! Will Australia even need to bat again? Hazlewood gets his first as Buttler has a fiddle. Good length on a sixth-stump line, a hint of nip away off the seam but no need to play at it. Buttler does regardless, with his hands away from his body, and his outside edge is straight into Carey's gloves. Looks like it kept a touch low, hitting Buttler low on the bat. Possibly should have come forward to it but played it off the back foot 268/7102.6 feathered through to Carey! England have lost 8 wickets for 77 runs on the fourth morning and Australia need 20 to win after lunch. Woakes was backing away, looking to upper-cut over the slips to keep himself on strike. Green followed him with the short ball, and Woakes could only edge it through to the keeper 297/1097.5 reverse-sweeps straight to point! That is not a great shot. On a length, Robinson premeditates but fails to consider the extra bounce that Lyon gets from his overspin. He top-edges it, and it's a straightforward catch at backward point for Head, running to his right 286/8101.4 tossed up, yorks him! Much more flight from Lyon than we've seen throughout the majority of this Test and some drift too. Very full, sneaking under the toe of Wood's bat as he came forward to drive, and it trims the outer half of off stump thanks to plenty of turn off the straight. Lyon has four, Australia have nine, England have big problems! 296/9Extras15 (b 4, lb 5, w 6)TOTAL297 all out (103 Overs, RR: 2.88)Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Rory Burns, 8.6 ov), 2-61 (Haseeb Hameed, 20.6 ov), 3-223 (Dawid Malan, 73.4 ov), 4-229 (Joe Root, 76.1 ov), 5-234 (Ollie Pope, 77.3 ov), 6-266 (Ben Stokes, 88.4 ov), 7-268 (Jos Buttler, 91.1 ov), 8-286 (Ollie Robinson, 97.5 ov), 9-296 (Mark Wood, 101.4 ov), 10-297 (Chris Woakes, 102.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB MA Starc 20 3 77 1 3.85 0 0 JR Hazlewood 14 6 32 1 2.28 0 0 PJ Cummins 20 6 51 2 2.55 1 0 NM Lyon 34 5 91 4 2.67 0 0 C Green 12 3 23 2 1.91 1 0 M Labuschagne 3 0 14 0 4.66 0 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR4.6 nicked him off! Carey won't get to hit the winning runs after fishing at one outside off, tickled through to the keeper. Robinson picks up a his fourth wicket of a pretty decent first Ashes outing 16/1Extras2 (nb 2)TOTAL20/1 (5.1 Overs, RR: 3.87)Did not bat: DA Warner, SPD Smith, TM Head, C Green, PJ Cummins (c), MA Starc, NM Lyon, JR HazlewoodFall of wickets: 1-16 (Alex Carey, 4.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB OE Robinson 3 0 13 1 4.33 0 2 CR Woakes 2 0 3 0 1.50 0 0 MA Wood 0.1 0 4 0 24.00 0 0
Match Details
Toss
England , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
Australia led the 5-match series 1-0
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
9.30 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 17.00
Match days
8,9,10,11 December 2021 (5-day match)
Test debut
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Australia 12, England -8
Close of Play
- Wed, 8 Dec - day 1 - England 1st innings 147
- Thu, 9 Dec - day 2 - Australia 1st innings 343/7 (TM Head 112*, MA Starc 10*, 84 ov)
- Fri, 10 Dec - day 3 - England 2nd innings 220/2 (DJ Malan 80*, JE Root 86*, 70 ov)
- Sat, 11 Dec - day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 20/1 (5.1 ov) - end of match
Match Notes
- New ball taken at 82.1 overs
- England: 250 runs in 82.6 overs (498 balls), Extras 14
- Drinks: England - 260/5 in 87.0 overs (BA Stokes 14, JC Buttler 17)
- Innings Break: England - 297/10 in 103.0 overs (MJ Leach 0)
- Lunch: England - 297/10 in 103.0 overs (MJ Leach 0)
- Australia 2nd innings
- Over 1.5: Review by England (Bowling), Umpire - PR Reiffel, Batter - MS Harris (Struck down)
- England have been docked eight ICC World Test Championship points, for maintaining a slow over-rate
- Australia: 350 runs in 86.2 overs (522 balls), Extras 14
- 8th Wicket: 50 runs in 65 balls (TM Head 32, MA Starc 18, Ex 2)
- Australia: 400 runs in 98.4 overs (596 balls), Extras 16
- Drinks: Australia - 413/8 in 101.0 overs (TM Head 145, NM Lyon 10)
- TM Head: 150 off 143 balls (14 x 4, 4 x 6)
- Innings Break: Australia - 425/10 in 104.3 overs (JR Hazlewood 0)
- England 2nd innings
- Over 0.6: Review by England (Batting), Umpire - PR Reiffel, Batter - RJ Burns (Upheld)
- Lunch: England - 23/0 in 8.0 overs (H Hameed 10, RJ Burns 13)
- England: 50 runs in 18.4 overs (112 balls), Extras 5
- Over 22.5: Review by Australia (Bowling), Umpire - PR Reiffel, Batter - DJ Malan (Struck down)
- Drinks: England - 65/2 in 23.0 overs (DJ Malan 19, JE Root 1)
- England: 100 runs in 33.2 overs (200 balls), Extras 5
- Tea: England - 107/2 in 36.0 overs (DJ Malan 35, JE Root 26)
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 106 balls (DJ Malan 20, JE Root 31, Ex 1)
- JE Root: 50 off 80 balls (8 x 4)
- England: 150 runs in 47.2 overs (284 balls), Extras 10
- DJ Malan: 50 off 121 balls (6 x 4)
- 3rd Wicket: 100 runs in 182 balls (DJ Malan 40, JE Root 55, Ex 5)
- Drinks: England - 179/2 in 55.0 overs (DJ Malan 65, JE Root 63)
- England: 200 runs in 61.2 overs (368 balls), Extras 13
- 3rd Wicket: 150 runs in 269 balls (DJ Malan 56, JE Root 85, Ex 9)
- End Of Day: England - 220/2 in 70.0 overs (DJ Malan 80, JE Root 86)
- Drinks: Australia - 41/1 in 16.0 overs (DA Warner 21, M Labuschagne 15)
- Australia: 50 runs in 21.3 overs (131 balls), Extras 3
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 109 balls (DA Warner 22, M Labuschagne 24, Ex 4)
- Australia: 100 runs in 28.4 overs (174 balls), Extras 9
- M Labuschagne: 50 off 71 balls (5 x 4, 1 x 6)
- 2nd Wicket: 100 runs in 147 balls (DA Warner 39, M Labuschagne 52, Ex 9)
- Lunch: Australia - 113/1 in 31.0 overs (DA Warner 48, M Labuschagne 53)
- DA Warner: 50 off 102 balls (4 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Drinks: Australia - 141/1 in 43.0 overs (DA Warner 65, M Labuschagne 63)
- Australia: 150 runs in 44.6 overs (272 balls), Extras 10
- 2nd Wicket: 150 runs in 252 balls (DA Warner 72, M Labuschagne 68, Ex 10)
- Over 50.2: Review by England (Bowling), Umpire - RJ Tucker, Batter - SPD Smith (Struck down)
- Tea: Australia - 193/3 in 54.0 overs (DA Warner 94, TM Head 0)
- Australia: 200 runs in 57.1 overs (345 balls), Extras 12
- Drinks: Australia - 240/6 in 67.0 overs (TM Head 33, PJ Cummins 0)
- Australia: 250 runs in 69.2 overs (418 balls), Extras 12
- TM Head: 50 off 51 balls (7 x 4, 1 x 6)
- 7th Wicket: 50 runs in 55 balls (TM Head 44, PJ Cummins 9, Ex 0)
- Australia: 300 runs in 75.1 overs (454 balls), Extras 13
- New ball taken at 80.1 overs
- TM Head: 100 off 85 balls (12 x 4, 2 x 6)
- End Of Day: Australia - 343/7 in 84.0 overs (TM Head 112, MA Starc 10)
- England 1st innings
- Drinks: England - 24/3 in 12.0 overs (H Hameed 12, BA Stokes 1)
- England: 50 runs in 21.1 overs (127 balls), Extras 6
- Lunch: England - 59/4 in 26.0 overs (H Hameed 25, OJ Pope 17)
- Over 34.2: Review by Australia (Bowling), Umpire - RJ Tucker, Batter - JC Buttler (Struck down)
- England: 100 runs in 36.3 overs (219 balls), Extras 6
- Drinks: England - 108/5 in 39.0 overs (OJ Pope 31, JC Buttler 35)
- 6th Wicket: 50 runs in 82 balls (OJ Pope 13, JC Buttler 39, Ex 0)
- Innings Break: England - 147/10 in 50.1 overs (MJ Leach 2)
- Australia 1st innings
- Tea: Australia - 0/0
- Rain: Australia - 0/0
- Wet Ground: Australia - 0/0
- End Of Day: Australia - 0/0
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