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Live Reporting

by Matthew Henry & Timothy Abraham

  1. This would have been the catch of the summer from Brydon Carse!

  2. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Steve Smith just can't stop moving around. He is an absolute fidget.

  3. 6 runs

    Aus 77-1

    Steve Smith has tempered much of his exaggerated movements while actually batting in recent years, but there is still plenty of fidgeting between balls.

    Smith does well to dig out a yorker from Brydon Carse.then picks up a six off the final ball of the over, seizing on the merest hint of something short to whip it over the ropes.

  4. Australia are ahead on the worm after 10 overs...

    Worm

  5. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    It's a brave call to go for Jacks so early but it was a tidy over.

  6. Aus 69-1

    You'll be pleased to see, Jim, that Harry Brook has turned to Will Jacks for the final over of the powerplay.

    Jacks bowls very flat and ends up with a handy five dot balls which draws warm appreciation from the Trent Bridge crowd.

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    Did Brook, Archer and the coaching staff not actually watch their own innings and notice how it was harder to score against the bowlers and Australia got wickets when they took the pace off the ball?

    Jim, Bucks

  8. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I love watching new captains - they can't stay still. He's taking his cap off and rubbing his head. Then he's speaking to Ben Duckett, who's probably saying "why don't we stick to the same plan for two balls in a row". I've seen enough from Brook now, though, to tell him to calm down. Bowlers need some consistency from a field.

  9. Aus 68-1

    Brydon Carse floats up a freebie to Travis Head, who leans back and cuts it away for four. Carse then drifts down the leg side with his final ball of the over and Head flicks it square for four.

    How will Harry Brook feel settling into his first nine overs in the field as captain?

  10. Geoff Lemon
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    That's how Smith was fighting fire with fire against Archer at Lord's in 2019 - get inside the line of it. Steve Smith shows no fear.

  11. 6 runs

    Aus 60-1

    When does he do it too often for it to be called luck, though, Eddie?

    Jofra Archer bangs in a testing short ball to Steve Smith off the final ball of his over and the Aussie batter swivels and manages to hit a edge six down between square leg and fine leg.

    Quick from Archer but Smith played that well.

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    Every time I watch Travis Head, he gets away with it at least once every innings, be it for IPL or country. Talk about lucky starter.

    Eddie F

  13. 6 runs

    Aus 53-1

    Travis Head with an audacious shot.

    He strolls down the pitch to Jofra Archer, bowling round the wicket, and nonchalantly whips him for six off his legs.

    Pure timing on the move. Head looks in imperious form.

  14. Geoff Lemon
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Sounds

    He doesn't trouble himself with bilateral one-day series. With the kind of evenings Merv has, he doesn't need to be getting up early to travel to the next venue. He likes the rhythm of a Test match.

  15. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

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    Where's big Merv Hughes today?

  16. Aus 47-1

    Target 316

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    Brydon Carse, another with a late nineties, early 2000s bleach blond look, is into the attack for England and starts with five dot balls as Travis Head finds the fielder.

    Head nudges Carse's final delivery into the leg side and pinches the strike.

  17. Alison Mitchell
    Commentator on BBC Test Match Special

    I wonder if Travis Head might fancy being David Warner's replacement as Australia's Test opener? Usman Khawaja has said he wouldn't mind seeing that.

  18. Aus 46-1

    Travis Head fancies Matthew Potts a lot more than Jofra Archer.

    A punchy push through long-off for four is followed by a slightly more extravagant waft which takes the top edge and races away through the vacant third region for consecutive fours.

  19. 6 runs

    Aus 36-1

    Effortless from Steve Smith who, steps across his stumps a fraction and effortlessly flicks Matthew Potts off his legs for six.

  20. Aus 30-1

    Travis Head has been in great form recently. This shot had an element of fortune to it, mind.