Eng 22-0published at 6.1 overs
Four more to Rory Burns!
It's a nothing sort of delivery from Pat Cummins, neither short nor full, and Burns is so quick to clip it off his pads and away through backward square. Lovely.
Summary
Burns 125*, Stokes 38*
Burns' maiden Test century
Survives lbw on 21 - out if reviewed
Root 57, Denly 18, Roy 10, Buttler 5
Two wickets for Pattinson
Australia 284: Smith 144, Broad 5-86
Edgbaston, first Test of five, day two
Eng 22-0published at 6.1 overs
Postpublished at 11:17 British Summer Time 2 August 2019
Is that Simon Pegg?
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Hopefully the Australian bowlers are duped by sunny conditions and bowl too short, for Messrs Roy and Burns to cash in. If they pitch it up I can see England struggling.
Dave
Eng 18-0published at 6 overs
This ball is six overs old. If I were James Pattinson I'd be a bit miffed that it wasn't carrying to slip when you're 17 minutes into play on the second day.
Maiden.
Postpublished at 11:16 British Summer Time 2 August 2019
Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match SpecialFull credit to Jason Roy, because that is a delivery he could have driven and the outside edge would have carried. It kept low and he defended it with soft hands.
Eng 18-0published at 5.4 overs
There are a group of Freddie Mercurys watching on from the Hollies Stand. Never see people dressed as Brian May, do you?
Oh! Outside edge from Jason Roy, pushing forward, but he's gone with softer hands this time, and it goes on the bounce to Steve Smith at second slip.
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An 8-hour drive to Cornwall. The children are taking the train. Eight hours of uninterrupted listening to the Ashes.
Matt Wallard, Oxford
How's stat?!published at 11:13 British Summer Time 2 August 2019
Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statisticianBefore Rory Burns and Jason Roy (both Surrey), the last England pair from the same county to open in an Ashes Test were Graham Gooch and John Stephenson from Essex in 1989.
Eng 18-0published at 5 overs
Burns 8, Roy 10
Pat Cummins' response is a lovely delivery that finds a bit of extra bounce to snake past Rory Burns' outside edge as he gets squared up in defence.
Cummins goes pirouetting in his follow-through and throws up a hand to stop Burns thumping a drive down the ground, and that's the end of the over.
Postpublished at 11:10 British Summer Time 2 August 2019
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondentNot absolutely where Rory Burns was aiming but slid all along the ground.
Eng 18-0published at 4.1 overs
Four!
That's not as convincing as Rory Burns would like, aiming a drive through cover, and the ball slices off the bat and races through gully and away for four.
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For my Ashes brunch this morning, I'd like the doom for starter, followed by the gloom. Thanks.
Adam, London
Eng 14-0published at 4 overs
Roy 10, Burns 4
Remember when Darren Pattinson played that random Test for England against South Africa? That was utterly bizarre.
Anyway, James Pattinson is very much an Australia player. He's also got a tattoo of Big Ben on his arm in tribute to his dad. He's causing Jason Roy a bit of trouble, Roy getting his bat and pads in a tangle as he tries to defend, but the England opener sees out the over.
Postpublished at 11:06 British Summer Time 2 August 2019
Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match SpecialLast night he let the ball come and played it late. There he threw his hands at it.
Postpublished at 11:06 British Summer Time 2 August 2019
Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondentThat went at a very catchable height but straight in the gap.
Eng 14-0published at 3.2 overs
Edge - but four!
Ugh, that's a horrible shot from Jason Roy. He goes for a big booming drive, hard hands, and he's lucky that he gets the ball past Cameron Bancroft at third slip and away to the boundary rope.
Nope.
Postpublished at 11:03 British Summer Time 2 August 2019
Here's James Pattinson.
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Donald Grump: It’s almost that time when productivity takes a huge dip across England.
Postpublished at 11:03 British Summer Time 2 August 2019
Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match SpecialI would expect Australia to bowl stump to stump today, try and get lbws and fine nicks.
Eng 10-0published at 3 overs
Trail by 274
Rory Burns leaves his next delivery from Pat Cummins and it goes through to Tim Paine at about ankle height, which leads the Aussie skipper to move his slip cordon forward a touch.
Burns wanders off to short leg as he doesn't quite defend this latest Cummins delivery with a straight bat, and that's a maiden first up.