Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport in Adelaide

Spots of rain falling...

A penny for Joe Root's thoughts. He's got his hand tucked on his chin as he watches David Warner hustle another easy two. Dawid Malan, next to him, lets out a massive yawn. Warner hops onto the back foot and cracks a delivery away, but there's a fielder lurking to cut it off. That's a fine leave from Warner to end the over, hoicking the bat away and letting a delivery bounce over his stumps. Hmm.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport in Adelaide

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Standing room only in front of the old scoreboard.

There are a bunch of people walking over the big white roofs that decorate the Adelaide Oval. They've got a great view but I wouldn't fancy being up there when it's windy... Still too short from Chris Woakes but he is at least hanging the ball on off stump. Bancroft ignores what he needs to and plonks a slightly straighter delivery away. There's a brief yelp from the slips as Bancroft pushes forward and the ball just squeezes past the outside edge. Maiden.

Will, Manchester

There's a gentle buzz around Adelaide right now. It all feels very English. Like a massive Trent Bridge. That's slightly better from James Anderson, getting one to dangle temptingly outside off stump, but David Warner ignores it. Oh, he's had a play at that one! It's wide outside off stump from Anderson and Warner can't resist pushing forward and going for the drive. That's a better over from Anderson, finished off with a leading edge that rolls to James Vince at gully.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

Chris Woakes will want to bowl better. He was down on his performance at the Gabba. He will have been disappointed.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but Bancroft and Warner run really well together. They've got a great awareness of each other. Warner bellows but Bancroft just has to nod, and his partner responds. Another single becomes two as Warner helps a Woakes delivery off his hips, before he thrusts his arms above his head and watches a delivery fly over his stumps. Back-to-back leggy, short deliveries are gratefully received by Warner, and he guides them away to keep adding to the total. If this short tactic was England's cunning plan then, er, it's a bad one.

Hello, we're going to have a change. Here's Chris Woakes. He'll be bowling into the wind.

Stuart Broad's first three overs have cost just six runs.

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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

It has been a steady start. There is not too much going on but there were just a few signs there that the lacquer is coming off the ball.

England have been too short so far, and Joe Root brings both Anderson and Broad together for a chin wag. In fact, Root looks thoroughly unimpressed as he mooches back to slip. Anderson does respond, going a touch fuller and bringing Cameron Bancroft forward, before banging in a short ball that goes through to Bairstow at a fair height. A single brings David Warner on strike and he goes for the big drive, and just about avoids getting a leading edge onto his stumps.

Andrew Reyes: Pitch the ball up Jimmy!!!!! Use your strength!!

Steve Allen: 18 balls. No bouncers. No aggression. No fire. Defensive field. No real swing. England. No hope.

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Stuart Broad comes steaming in, and has to turn back round as a nasty gust of wind hits him square in the face. He goes full and Cameron Bancroft goes or the on drive, but a tumbling Broad, leaping to his left in his follow through, knocks the ball away and saves a boundary. That's another good drop and run from Bancroft and Chris Woakes ends up running right past the ball as he attempts to field it. A tickle off the hips from Warner, coupled with some running that a 100m athlete would be proud of, brings another couple.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport in Adelaide

The floodlights are already on. There's a lady in front of me wrapped up in a scarf. My shorts were a mistake.

Cameron Bancroft has got his eye in. He judges the length well from Anderson's first two deliveries, before the third just nips back past his outside edge. That was a touch too short from Anderson, though, and he responds by pitching the ball up slightly. Bancroft, in turn, bunts a fuller ball away and goes flying through to the over end for a speedy single. This pair ran very well together in Brisbane.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

The pessimist in me is already thinking there is not much seam and not much swing.

Early days, of course, but this is a touch wasteful from England. Stuart Broad is bowling wide, too wide to trouble Cameron Bancroft, before a shorter delivery is helped easily away for two. Broad then finally brings Bancroft forward and he hustles it, rather uncomfortably, away for a single. There is some seam movement there for Broad, just giving David Warner pause for thought, before he gets cut in half by a fine delivery that jags back and just nips over the stumps. Broad, hands on knees, puffs out his cheeks in disbelief.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport in Adelaide

Before the start of every day's play, the home fans are whipped up by a video of various Aussies telling us to "beat England". Current players, Steve Waugh, Merv Hughes, Adam Gilchrist. Somehow they've roped Usain Bolt into it. I know he did some work with them in Brisbane, but you can't help but feel a little betrayed. London 2012, Usain? Manchester United? We know who our friends are...

I'm no meteorologist but it's really windy, and James Anderson is charging straight into the bluster. His first delivery goes down the leg side once again, before another one drifts well wide of Warner. That's better from Anderson, a lovely swinging delivery that Warner ignores, before the Australia opener stands tall and cracks a cut shot away to the boundary. That'll improve Anderson's mood.

Anna and Neil in Oxford