Summary

  • Head's 85-ball century lifts Australia from 236-6

  • Robinson takes two wickets in two balls after tea

  • Warner (94) and Labuschagne (74) put on 156 for second wicket

  • Warner survives being bowled off a Stokes no-ball, and being dropped in the slips by Burns

  • Leach expensive as Aussies target England spinner

  • First Test, day two, Brisbane

  • Daily highlights programme on BBC iPlayer from 17:00

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews and Matthew Henry

  1. This could have been a horrible moment. Thankfully Travis Head was OK.

  2. For anyone just joining us, Stokes, who took a wicket with a no-ball early on when fully fit, seemed to injured himself chasing a ball to the boundary in the field. It looks like a problem with his knee.

    He didn't bowl in the afternoon session and when he did in the evening, he was clearly hampered.

    It has made a bad day worse.

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

    Ben Stokes doesn't look fit. England said he is OK but you can tell just from watching him. He's clearly got some issue with that right knee and let's hope they get it right because he is such an important part of England's team.

  4. England bowling coach Jon Lewis is speaking to the media. He says Ben Stokes will be assessed overnight.

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

    Confidence in cricket goes into every aspect of your game so Rory Burns probably still has that first baller in his brain.

    Clearly he is not in a great place at the moment. It is no real surprise he dropped a catch but he does have form for dropping catches.

  6. It might seem strange reading so much praise for England's fast bowlers given the scoreline but it's justified. They bowled well.

    They have just been let down by the fielding, the batting on day one and hurt by injuries plus the lack of preparation.

  7. 'Nothing but admiration for Robinson, Wood & Woakes'

    Steven Finn
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    That first day in the field is the hardest day in cricket. That's why preparation periods where you spend a day in the field and then back it up are important because you get stiff and sore. I can't tell you how sore those three pace bowlers will be tomorrow.

    It could be about 63mph tomorrow morning - honestly the stiffness you get in your body having not done it for a little while is indescribable.

    I have nothing but admiration for the skill that they showed. I actually think they showed incredible skill and discipline with all this going on around them. They were pretty much just asked to come back and back and back.

  8. 'Pace bowlers dug deep today'

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on BBC Test Match Special

    People will moan at that score but I have to say I am full of admiration for Woakes, Robinson and Wood.

    It is there first day in the field since early September and anybody who has done it, in heat or in early April, that is hard work. For them to do it in 30 degrees, trying to chase the game, they weren't in control but they really kept at it and were plugging away. They created opportunities and beat the bat time and time again.

    Those three really dug deep today.

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    The problem here is that Chris Silverwood has put all his eggs in this Ashes basket. We've had years of awful results in the Test arena, a year of strange at best rest and rotation, a year of horrendous selection decisions, but it's all now come to this - and we're in way over our heads. Another strange selection this Test and ANOTHER sub 200 score, followed by a bowling attack falling apart after not even a day of bowling. Gonna be a long, long winter.

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  10. 'Robinson and Wood bowled well'

    Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    I thought Ollie Robinson bowled beautifully. I thought Mark Wood bowled very well as well - it was a more measured Wood. He bowled a good line and length and troubled the left handers outside the off stump.

    Jack Leach was targeted and got smashed out of the attack but they were unhelpful conditions.

    It is one of those days as a bowling unit where you sit down and think "crikey, where did that get away from us?". They weren't helped in the field.

  11. 'It is Travis Head's day today'

    Australia opener David Warner on BT Sport: "They bowled well and they were relentless - they hit that back of the length target all day. What an entertaining innings from Travis Head though - it was great to watch.

    "It's got to be up there for him [Head] personally. It was a tight battle with Usman Khawaja but that is the Travis Head we know. He wasn't going to change anything. He was fluent with himself and backed himself.

    "When your back is up against it you can only look forward because it could be your last game - leave nothing in the tank. It was extraordinary today and I really am happy for him.

    "I felt like from a patience side of things I left really well today and it is something I've worked on a lot but it is Travis Head's day today.

    "When you're out of runs you deserve some luck and that happened today and hopefully it can continue. I'm trying my best."

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  12. Things could have been so different. England went through their bad Ashes day bingo card early on...

  13. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    What a couple of days for Australia. You want to get out quickly and put the flag down and haven't they done that... they are in total control.

  14. Stay with us for reaction to another bruising day for England.

  15. Travis Head leads the players off. He ends unbeaten on 112 from 95 balls.

    Some knock.

  16. Close of play - Aus 343-7

    Lead by 196

    And that drop is the final action of the day.

    England have had to take body blow after body blow. There are some heavy legs wandering off.

  17. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It has been one of those days...

  18. dropped catch

    Starc dropped on 10

    When it's not your day...

    Full and fast from Wood, Mitchell Starc having a massive swing. The ball swings, takes Starc's inside edge and Jos Buttler is totally wrong-footed. He can't take a one-handed catch diving down the leg side.

  19. How's stat?!

    Andy Zaltzman
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    There is only one example of a bowler bowling more than 10 overs in a Test innings and going for more runs per over than Jack Leach today: Pakistan's Yasir Shah against Australia in Sydney in January 2017.

  20. Aus 343-7

    Three more to Head. I still can't quite believe he has hit an 85-ball Ashes hundred. This is only day two of the series. These things are usually at least saved for the fourth Test.