Summary

  • Sluggish Australia close on 61-1 after Woakes removes Warner

  • Moeen injures groin while batting & not able to field

  • England bowled out inside 55 overs for 283

  • Brook top-scores with belligerent 85 off 91 balls

  • Moeen (34) & Brook share 111-run stand for fourth wicket

  • Starc 4-82, two wickets apiece for Murphy and Hazlewood

  • Australia, who lead series 2-1, won toss

  • England looking to avoid first Ashes series defeat at home for 22 years

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews, Sam Drury and Timothy Abraham

  1. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Australia dropped five catches and missed a run out, they created 16 chances. Is it good bowling or the way England have batted? Pat Cummins bowled really well, we saw contrasting styles today.

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

    Australia have negotiated a tricky period under lights.

  4. Close of play

    That's it for day one.

    Australia close on 61-1, a deficit of 22.

    Their day? I'd say so.

  5. Stuart Broad again tries to get the ball changed.

    No luck.

  6. Usman Khawaja has once again blunted England.

  7. Aus 57-1

    A maiden from James Anderson.

    That gives us time for one more Stuart Broad over.

  8. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Australia dropped five catches today and they've still probably had the better of the day.

  9. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at The Oval

    I'm pretty sure Mark Wood has just signed an actual watermelon at fine leg.

  10. Aus 57-1

    Marnus Labuschagne and Usman Khawajwa take a single each off Stuart Broad.

    Five minutes left in the day.

  11. Stuart Broad is trying to get the ball changed again.

    We're getting a bit closer.

    The ball does slightly hold in the mechanism this time, but Joel Wilson again says "get on with it".

    Broad chunters to himself as he walks back to his mark.

  12. Guess the England cricketer...

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  13. Aus 55-1

    Runs. Runs. Runs. How exciting.

    Marnus Labuschagne nudges a single behind square, before Usman Khawaja drives an over-pitched delivery to the boundary.

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

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    When you are a bowling team, you talk about partnerships. If you get maidens at one end and flogged at the other, it releases that pressure. You build that pressure in partnerships and four maidens in a row does that.

  15. Aus 50-1

    Another maiden.

    That is five in a row.

  16. Phil Salt has brought up a 74-ball century with a six for Lancashire against Northamptonshire.

    Could he be a future England Test wicketkeeper or batter? That's pretty Bazball.

    Remarkably that game is being played on the same pitch as last week's Test but we've had scores of 342 and now Lancashire have passed 400 only four down.

    England may not have found wrapping up victory quite as easy as we all thought.

  17. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    You look silly if you leave one and it knocks off your off pole at this time of the day, but in general Marnus Labuschagne's judgement is good as a rule.

  18. Aus 50-1

    James Anderson starts with a maiden. Australia haven't scored a run off the bat for four overs.

    There's a couple of tight leaves from Marnus Labuschagne but he's judging the length well at the moment.

  19. Here's Chris Woakes removing David Warner.

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

    It felt like in England's innings, there was a highlight every over to talk about.