Summary

  • England bowled out for 147 after winning toss and batting first

  • Starc removes Burns with first ball of the match

  • Cummins takes 5-38; Buttler top-scores with 39

  • England leave out Anderson & Broad

  • First Test, day one, Brisbane

  • Daily highlights programme on BBC iPlayer from 17:00

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Stephan Shemilt

  1. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    In 1936-37, Stanley Worthington of England was out to the first ball of the Brisbane Test. England went on to win it.

  2. Eng 6-1

    Well there's one over done. Starc was up at 90mph with the juices flowing.

  3. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on BBC Test Match Special

    You couldn't make it up. In every imaginable scenario you could think of. First ball!

  4. Eng 6-1

    Dawid Malan will get a couple more here with prod into the off side. There are omens for an Ashes series and then there's losing a wicket on the first ball.

    Incredible.

  5. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on BBC Test Match Special

    England can breathe.

  6. Eng 4-1

    Edgy but four from Malan. That won't quieten the Aussies.

    I can't believe what I've just seen.

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    Charlie: I'm off to bed.

  8. England have had bad starts in the Ashes but that beats the lot.

    A wicket with the first ball.

    Here's Dawid Malan.

  9. Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Phenomenal. Quick. Straight.

  10. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on BBC Test Match Special

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    What an absolutely shattering start.

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    Burns b Starc 0 (Eng 0-1)

    WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?! Oh my. Oh my, my, my, my...

    Rory Burns is bowled around his legs first ball by Mitchell Starc. The Gabba erupts.

  12. Here we go ladies and gents. It all starts here.

    Mitchell Starc to Rory Burns...

    Good luck.

  13. Geoff Lemon
    Australian journalist at the Gabba

    The good news from Brisbane is that the sky looks kind at this stage. There is full cloud cover but it's high light cloud, not heavy with moisture. The rain radar is clear, the air doesn't feel full of foreboding. We might get storms later in the afternoon, but for now, approaching 10am, we'll get a decent slab of play.

  14. Mitchell Starc is looming at the end of his mark ready for a feast.

  15. Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    There will be some left-handers in the Australia batting line-up relieved that Stuart Broad won't be bowling round the wicket at them.

  16. Haseeb Hameed and Rory Burns are making the Australians wait.

    After a punch of the gloves the England opening pair make the long walk out to the middle - the cameras following their every move.

  17. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on BBC Test Match Special

    There's controversy over England's team selection, but they can prove everyone wrong over the next five days. I've just been on ABC in Australia - they are reeling over neither Broad or Anderson playing.

  18. Another big roar comes at the end of Advance Australia Fair. The Aussies look desperate to get going. Debutant Alex Carey looks like a boxer ready to get at it.

    It's almost time.

  19. Just do it, Chris...

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    Chris Solman: Been told I can work from home tomorrow. Worried I’ll accidentally watch all of day one.