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Match summary

Men's Ashes Series

1st Test / Birmingham

England 393 for 8 & 273. Australia 386 & 282 for 8.

Australia win by 2 wickets.

England 1st innings

Total

393 for 8 declared, from 78 overs.

Batting

  1. Crawley c Carey b Boland; 61 runs, 73 balls, 7 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 83.56
  2. Duckett c Carey b Hazlewood; 12 runs, 10 balls, 2 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 120.00
  3. Pope lbw b Lyon; 31 runs, 44 balls, 2 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 70.45
  4. Root not out; 118 runs, 152 balls, 7 fours, 4 sixes, and a strike rate of 77.63
  5. Brook b Lyon; 32 runs, 37 balls, 4 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 86.49
  6. Stokes (c) c Carey b Hazlewood; 1 runs, 8 balls, 0 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 12.50
  7. Bairstow (wk) st Carey b Lyon; 78 runs, 78 balls, 12 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 100.00
  8. Ali st Carey b Lyon; 18 runs, 17 balls, 2 fours, 1 sixes, and a strike rate of 105.88
  9. Broad b Green; 16 runs, 21 balls, 2 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 76.19
  10. Robinson not out; 17 runs, 31 balls, 2 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 54.84

Extras

9 from 6 legbyes, 3 noballs.

Yet to bat

  • Anderson

Fall of Wickets

  • Ben Duckett at 22 for 1, from 3.4 overs
  • Ollie Pope at 92 for 2, from 17.6 overs
  • Zak Crawley at 124 for 3, from 26.4 overs
  • Harry Brook at 175 for 4, from 37.2 overs
  • Ben Stokes at 176 for 5, from 38.4 overs
  • Jonny Bairstow at 297 for 6, from 61.4 overs
  • Moeen Ali at 323 for 7, from 65.5 overs
  • Stuart Broad at 350 for 8, from 70.4 overs

Bowling

  1. Cummins: 14overs, 0 maidens, 59 runs, 0 wickets, and an economy of 4.21.
  2. Hazlewood: 15overs, 1 maidens, 61 runs, 2 wickets, and an economy of 4.06.
  3. Boland: 14overs, 0 maidens, 86 runs, 1 wickets, and an economy of 6.14.
  4. Lyon: 29overs, 1 maidens, 149 runs, 4 wickets, and an economy of 5.13.
  5. Green: 6overs, 0 maidens, 32 runs, 1 wickets, and an economy of 5.33.

Match details

  • Toss: England won the toss and elected to bat
  • Venue: Edgbaston, Birmingham
  • Match referee: Andy Pycroft
  • Umpire: Marais Erasmus
  • Umpire: Ahsan Raza
  • Reserve umpire: Mike Burns
  • TV umpire: Chris Gaffaney