Summary

  • Ireland 38 all out in 15.4 overs

  • Seventh lowest total in Test history

  • Woakes 6-17, Broad 4-19

  • England 303 all out

  • Stone bowled by first ball of day

  • England win inside three days

  • England's final match before Ashes

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse

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    David Draycott: Just a normal Test Match, nothing to see here, move along.

  2. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    This is a really strange Test match.

    England could win it before lunch on the third day, having been bowled out for 85 batting first.

  3. Chris Woakes has 5-15 and counting.

    Tim Murtagh, who destroyed England on the opening day, is coming out to bat.

  4. Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    A really good catch. Stuart Thompson wasn't dying wondering and there was a lot of bat speed there. You don't often get a catch low to your right at first slip.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Thompson c Root b Woakes 4 (Ire 36-8)

    Five for Chris Woakes!

    Honestly, Woakes must wish he could play at Lord's all the time. There's away movement again, tempting Stuart Thompson into a drive, and a thick outside edge goes to Joe Root, who takes a good catch, tumbling to his right.

  6. Ire 36-7

    Target 182

    Stand and deliver!

    Stuart Thompson doesn't even bother to move as he stands and drives a full Chris Woakes delivery back past the bowler for four.

  7. Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I'm a massive Chris Woakes fan. But I'm not a fan of having an attack of Stuart Broad, James Anderson, Ben Stokes and Woakes.

    However, Jofra Archer might come through four overs tonight but that's very different from 20 overs in a day. Is he worth the risk at Edgbaston?

    And if you could guarantee conditions like this then you could play Anderson, Broad and Woakes together.

  8. Ire 32-7

    Here comes Andy McBrine, and he lets the last ball of the over go through to the keeper.

  9. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Stuart Broad gets the final say.

  10. wicket

    WICKET

    Adair b Broad 8 (Ire 32-7)

    Aaaand he's bowled next ball!

    A loose drive from Mark Adair, a bit of nip back, and Stuart Broad rearranges Adair's stumps. He gives him a friendly stare-off as well.

  11. 6 runs

    Ire 32-6

    Hello!

    Stuart Broad tries to follow up his bouncer with another one, and Mark Adair almost nonchalantly lofts him square for six. Lovely stuff.

  12. Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Stuart Broad and James Anderson are opening the bowling in the first Ashes Test, regardless of whoever else is available. Their experience counts for so much on the first morning on an Ashes Test.

  13. ouch!

    Ire 26-6

    Another nasty thwack from Stuart Broad. This time it's Mark Adair who gets hit in the grille as he tries to pull.

  14. It's not been much fun for the Ireland fans.

  15. Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    The pitch has surprised me - I thought it would get lower and slower and spin more. If anything, it's quickened up.

  16. Ire 25-6

    Woakes 6-2-11-4

    The campaign to rename Lord's "the house of Chris Woakes" start here.

    Twice, he comes perilously close to finding the edge of Mark Adair's bat, before Adair works a single into the leg side.

  17. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    James Anderson looked a bit grumpy this morning. I think he'd just looked outside - he would've loved to bowl in these conditions.

  18. Ire 25-6

    Target 182

    Stuart Broad whizzes a delivery past Stuart Thompson's outside edge to end another lively over.

  19. Mark Adair, who bowled so well yesterday, has dragged himself out to bat.

  20. Phil Tufnell
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Oh no! Lunch looks lovely as well - sea bass!