Australia vs England 1st Test Day 5 Highlights 27th November, 2017

Eng v Aus The Ashes highlights today – First test day five from Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane (Australia) Monday 27th November 2017.

England won the toss and elected to bat.

Match Timings: 10:00 local (00:00 GMT)

The Ashes 2017/18 1st Test Highlights

Umpires – Aleem Dar, Marais Erasmus
TV Umpires – Chris Gaffaney
Match Referee – Sir Richie Richardson
Reserve Umpire – Paul Wilson
Match number – Test no. 2282

In the final analysis, it has been a slaughter, but England’s latest trip to the Gabbatoir has turned out to be a more humane affair than some of their more gory predecessors. Their decisive second innings may have been topped and tailed by some traditional fast-bowling savagery, with Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins claiming 4 for 10 in 21 balls to finish the work that Josh Hazlewood had started with the new ball on the third evening. But the extinguishing of English hope was left to David Warner and Cameron Bancroft, whose utterly unhurried opening partnership of 114 in 34 overs made mincemeat of what could have been an awkward victory target of 170. It was a curiously flat finale to a contest in which the momentum had not so much swung as vibrated from session to session. But, after a final burst of violent lurches one way and then the other on the fourth afternoon, Australia’s traditional dominance at their favourite home venue came flooding to the fore in a one-sided finale.

Highlights will be updated soon

Australia team/playing XI

DA Warner, CT Bancroft, UT Khawaja, SPD Smith (c), PSP Handscomb, SE Marsh, TD Paine †, MA Starc, PJ Cummins, JR Hazlewood, NM Lyon.

England team/playing XI

AN Cook, MD Stoneman, JM Vince, JE Root (c), DJ Malan, MM Ali, JM Bairstow †, CR Woakes, SCJ Broad, JT Ball, JM Anderson.