First Ashes Test - Gabba.

[Donny]

The first Ashes Test begins in Brisbane, today.

10 am. (local).

Australia XI: Dave Warner, Cam Bancroft, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith (c), Peter Handscomb, Shaun Marsh, Tim Paine (wk), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood. Glenn Maxwell is on standby for Marsh.

England XI: Alastair Cook, Mark Stoneman, James Vince, Joe Root (c), Dawid Malan, Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson, Jake Ball.

[Culprit]

The good, new faces and selected on form. The bad, spuds selected on previous form on failure after failure.

[Donny]

England won the toss and elected to bat.

Marsh, Warner in the XI.

[Donny]

Cook out for 2. Starc strikes.

Caught by Handscomb.

[Donny]

1/10 after 5 overs.

[Donny]

1/59. Rain.

[Donny]

Play resumes.

1/63.

Vince 33*, Stoneman 25*.

[Donny]

1/116.

Stoneman 48*, Vince 66*.

[Donny]

Stoneman bowled by Cummins for 53.

2/127.

[Donny]

2/144.

Vince 82*.

[Donny]

3/157.

Vince run out for 83. Direct hit from Lyon.

[Donny]

4/196 at stumps.

Root out to Cummins for 15.

[Donny]

6/250.

Wickets for Starc & Lyon, this morning.

[Culprit]

Everyone in the office was jumping for joy as we got the Poms out for 302. The realist in me said, "we haven't batted yet". 4 down already.

[Presti35]

Everyone in the office was jumping for joy as we got the Poms out for 302. The realist in me said, "we haven't batted yet". 4 down already.

So true.

My Brittish friends were sulky. And I thought to myself... we have to bat.

Then boom, boom, boom, boom......