1st Test, England tour of Australia and New Zealand at Brisbane

196/4 * (80.3 ov)

Fall of wickets:
1-2 (AN Cook, 2.4 ov)
2-127 (MD Stoneman, 54.2 ov)
3-145 (JM Vince, 59.3 ov)
4-163 (JE Root, 70.4 ov)

Current Partnership :
33 runs, 9.5 overs, RR: 3.35 (Moeen 13, Dawid 20)

302 all out after 116.4 overs

Innings break

day 2 : will take LUNCH

Australia will be very satisfied with that session, taking six wickets
but England have got themselves to 300.

165 - 4 after 62. overs

Current Partnership : 89 runs, 37.1 overs, RR: 2.39 (Marsh 44, Smiff 45)

Shaun Marsh in his seventh coming as a Test cricketer, no less !

Day 2: Australia trail by 137 runs with 6 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

Stumps

I know it *looks* like England are doing OK, but I've been listening to Channel Nine's commentary all day, and it turns out Australia are actually still winning. So now you know.

Every Ashes session is crucial but the first hour of day 3 dictates the rest of the game. Early wickets and England in command. Aus runs and they take control. Smith wicket huge.

Stuard Broad insists England's fate remains firmly in their own hands despite a difficult third day of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane.

Australia captain Steve Smith's superb 141 not out lifted Australia to 328 all out and a slender 26-run first-innings lead.

Josh Hazlewood then snared Alastair Cook and James Vince before England had wiped out the deficit, but Mark Stoneman and Joe Root survived a testing barrage of pace and spin to steer the tourists to 33-2 at the close.

It gives the tourists a lead of seven with eight wickets remaining and Broad remains optimistic about his side's chances in batting conditions that look to be getting easier on an untypically slow surface at the Gabba.

"I've pretty much left every day of this Test match not knowing who's ahead," Broad said.

Day 4 at the Gabba and the cracks have started to appear !

England say jimmy has bruising on his shoulder after being struck when batting. They say it won't affect his bowling.