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. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Oh I say, what a shot that is. A bit low on the bat, but Woakes got a good piece on that.

  2. 6 runs

    Eng 279-9

    Chris Woakes! Lovely strike.

    He backs away and just whacks Mitch Starc back over his head for six.

    Superb.

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

    I think Jimmy Anderson thinks that a block is a reverse sweep.

  4. Eng 273-9

    Never mind survive.

    James Anderson plays a conventional sweep but turns down the single.

    A reverse sweep is then crunched straight to short fine leg.

    Those shots deserved more than no runs.

  5. dropped catch

    Woakes dropped on 25

    Eng 273-9

    Chris Woakes chips a return catch to Todd Murphy but it hurries the spinner and he can't hold on.

    They get through for a single.

    James Anderson has two balls to survive.

  6. The first over after tea was eventful...

  7. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Well done, Joel. Anderson was literally playing French cricket in the garden there.

  8. Not out

    Eng 270-9

    Oooh!

    It's umpire's call, clipping leg stump.

    James Anderson survives.

  9. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at The Oval

    Mitchell Starc has asked for this to be reviewed and then collected his cap and walked to his fielding position. He didn't think it was out.

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

    That's going down leg stump.

  11. Umpire review

    Has Jimmy Anderson been trapped lbw first ball?

    Aggers was convinced initially. Joel Wilson says yes.

    Australia review.

  12. Jimmy Anderson has told the Tailenders podcast that he wants to go to India in the new year.

    Listen on BBC Sounds.

  13. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport at The Oval

    There are a few people standing to applaud Jimmy Anderson to the crease. I wonder if they think this could be the last time they see him.

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

    There might be a thought from England here, let's get out there and get a decent bit of bowling in.

  15. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    That was brief and entertaining from Broad.

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Broad c Head b Starc 7 (Eng 270-9)

    Another one goes.

    Stuart Broad follows the boundary with a chip over mid-on before a couple.

    He then steps away and slogs Pat Cummins up in the air and Travis Head, in the covers, steadies himself and then waits and waits and waits for the ball to drop into his hands.

    Good catch.

  17. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    That was almost a brilliant piece of captaincy, it was at a catchable height, just three yards away. That is homework, that is research. If that had been caught, that would've been outstanding.

  18. Eng 268-8

    Catch ittt!

    No.

    Stuart Broad almost picks out the fly gully but it lands inches away and runs to the fence.

    Placement, Broady...

  19. How's stat?!

    That knock of 28 was Mark Wood's joint-best for an Ashes Test in England, also scoring 28 in August 2015 at Trent Bridge.

    He did score 32* in 2015 in a home Ashes, but it was in Cardiff.

  20. Eng 263-8

    Stuart Broad is the new batter and he's off the mark with a single.

    I suspect we'll see some shots from him.