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. Eng 140-8

    Now Mark Wood gets in on the act, biffing Cummins through mid-off for four. Whisper it quietly, but this pitch does look nice to bat on.

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

    That was brilliantly played.

  3. Eng 134-8

    A third four. Quite bizarre. Woakes has stepped away and angled between slips and gully. He has 18 from as many balls.

  4. Stuart Clark
    Former Australia fast bowler on Test Match Special

    The players who have scored runs have all been prepared to have a stride at the ball to negate the movement off the seam.

  5. Eng 130-8

    Driven for four by Woakes, straight of mid-off, then another wide of gully. Quite surprised Hazlewood is bowling so full to him.

  6. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    This is the second Ashes series in a row a team has been 122-8 on the opening day. Steve Smith's hundred at Edgbaston took Australia to 284.

  7. Eng 122-8

    Mark Wood is the new man.

    Something about sticking it up the baggy green...

  8. Stuart Clark
    Former Australia fast bowler on Test Match Special

    It is very hard to replicate the pace off the Gabba wicket until you have played on it. It was foreign for us playing in Sydney. Until you get used to it and realise throwing your hands at a full one can end in disaster...

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

    England are subsiding here.

  10. wicket

    WICKET

    Robinson c Carey b Cummins 0 (Eng 122-8)

    OK, Ollie Robinson is batting number nine, so there is some slack to be cut.

    However, this is pretty ropey.

    Pushed back by Pat Cummins, then following a wide, full one for a tame edge behind. Loose batting.

    I know the rest haven't done the business, but this England side need everyone to contribute.

  11. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    GreenGetty Images

    A few overs ago it looked like England might escape with a respectable score, now less likely...

  12. Eng 122-7

    It might have been a stinky half-tracker, but it got big on Pope, who had no control over the shot.

    Ollie Robinson is the new man, watching as Chris Woakes plays a picture of a drive for four.

  13. Stuart Clark
    Former Australia fast bowler on Test Match Special

    There was a little bit of extra bounce because of Cameron Green's extra height. It was an excellent catch from Josh Hazlewood.

    Green has bowled a lot of good deliveries in his short Test career but they've all beaten the edge or not gone to hand. He's bowled a, let's say, stinky half-tracker and it has gone to hand.

  14. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    Cameron Green gets his first Test wicket!

    Ollie Pope's promising innings comes to an unhappy ending.

  15. wicket

    WICKET

    Pope c Hazlewood b Green 35 (Eng 118-7)

    Superb catch, poor shot.

    Ollie Pope goes, giving Cameron Green his first Test wicket with a top-edged pull to the first ball of a new spell.

    It's excellent by Hazlewood at long leg, coming in, diving forward and taking the ball low down. Reminiscent of a catch Glenn McGrath took on England's tour of 2002-03.

    England could be bowling soon.

  16. Geoff Lemon
    Australian journalist at the Gabba

    GabbaGetty Images

    Remarkably, the weather here in Brisbane still looks good. It's almost sunny in patches here and there, and the cloud cover remains unthreatening. Considering the forecasts, every over that we get through is a gift.

  17. Eng 118-6

    WoakesGetty Images

    Woakes is definitely conscious of the short one, as you would be when Mitchell Starc has the ability to stick a bit of leather up your nose at 90mph. Deep in the crease, not much foot movement, but surviving. For now.

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

    It is hard to judge a spinner on day one when conditions are like this. His main job today is just to give the pace bowlers a bit of rest bite.

  19. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    LyonGetty Images

    Nathan Lyon took three wickets in the last Brisbane Test but has only taken nine wickets in his last four Tests. In the 22 before that he had taken 100 wickets.

    It was a rare drought for Lyon in the last Australia home summer against India.

  20. Eng 117-6

    From his position at the non-striker's end, Woakes is having a chat with Nathan Lyon. That's what happens when you're the nicest man in cricket, you get on with everyone. Even Nathan Lyon.