2017 -18 Ashes Series Nov 23 - Jan 08,2018 - Australia Vs England First Test @ Brisbane Nov 23 - 27,2017

 

Day One Thursday Nov 23,2017

England won the toss and chose to bat first

Scorecard
England 196/4

Australia fought back with two late wickets to restrict England to 196 for four and leave the Ashes series-opener in Brisbane delicately poised on Thursday after the tourists' unheralded batsmen threatened to dominate an intriguing first day.

Ashes debutants Mark Stoneman and James Vince had frustrated Australia's vaunted pace attack with a 125-run partnership on a slow Gabba wicket but seamer Pat Cummins hauled the home side back in the game

Pat Cummins bowled Stoneman for 53 in the last over before tea then returned to capture England captain Joe Root lbw for 15, leaving Moeen Ali and Dawid Malan to negotiate a nervy finish to stumps.

Spinner Nathan Lyon denied Vince a potentially career-defining century with a brilliant piece of fielding, running him out for 83 after nearly four hours of pain-staking graft.

Malan was 28 not out and Moeen on 13, with both sides having fought hard after Root won the toss and sent his team into bat.

Day Two Friday Nov 24,2017


England lost six wickets to collapse to 302 all out as Australia roared back in the first Ashes Test on day two at the Gabba on Friday Nov 24,2017

The tourists were building their first innings in an 83-run partnership between Dawid Malan and Moeen Ali before Malan's dismissal triggered a clatter of wickets before lunch.

Joe Root's team tumbled from 246 for four to be all out as Australia seized the upper hand following an attritional opening day.

Fast bowlers Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins each took three wickets and spinner Nathan Lyon two to bundle out the tourists with six wickets for 56.

Malan, the Middlesex left-hander, hit 11 fours in his third Test fifty before he top-edged a Mitchell Starc lifter and was caught by Shaun Marsh at deep square leg for 56.

Seven balls later, in the 104th over, off-spinner Lyon removed all-rounder Moeen Ali leg before wicket for 38, with the dismissal confirmed on review.

Lyon, who was threatening with his drift and turn, struck again with the first ball of his next over, bowling Chris Woakes for a duck.

Wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow followed shortly afterwards for nine, as he attempted to pull Pat Cummins only to dolly to gloveman Tim Paine for his first catch on his Test return after seven years in the wilderness.
Jake Ball smacked three fours before he was snapped up by a diving David Warner at leg slip off Starc for 14, and Stuart Broad was dropped by Marsh before he went for 20 to an outfield catch by Peter Handscomb.

Mitchell Starc finished with 3/77, Pat Cummins took3/85and Nathan Lyon 2/78

Malan had looked in command before his false shot to a Starc lifter and batted for 130 balls in his first Ashes Test, hitting some impressive boundaries

Steve Smith and Shaun Marsh are doing some repair job after Stuart Broad, Moeen Ali and Jake Ball tore through Australia’s batting line-up to leave the hosts 76-3 at tea on the second day of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane on Friday Nov 24,2017