5.38am BST 05:38 Australia 356-5 Megan Maurice Well if you’re just waking up in England, I don’t have great news for you. This has been pure domination from Australia. Some late wickets from England stemmed the flow of runs the tiniest little bit, but they have an absolutely huge chase on their hands. As I … Read more
6.01am BST 06:01 22nd over: West Indies 91-3 (Taylor 19, Campbelle 0) Matthews had the right idea, at least. Might as well swing for it as sputter out. 6.00am BST 06:00 WICKET! Matthews c King b Jonassen 34, West Indies 91-3 The demand takes its toll. The number one bowler in the world hasn’t even … Read more
2.07am GMT 02:07 17th over: India 76-2 (Yastika Bhatia 23, Mithali Raj 18) Tahlia McGrath gets her first over now and she starts it very well, with four dot balls. Bhatia is eyeing her cautiously and is happy to block it out for a few balls before taking a single and handing the strike to … Read more
9.25am GMT 09:25 21st over: England 82-2 (Crawley 36, Root 0) Target 271 The crowd are up as Root comes in, but he calmly plays his first ball to point. Looking at the wicket again, Malan didn’t move his feet, and though we can perhaps blame the bouncer that hit him, he didn’t to that … Read more
6.50am GMT 06:50 Warren Skaife asks, not unreasonably: “Was Marnus’ dismissal the ugliest seen at any level of cricket?” I once saw a bloke in park cricket swallow a bee, and get run out mid pitch. By the time he’d trudged, off his face had ballooned up threefold. The poor bloke deserved a call back … Read more
83rd over: England 216-5 (Bairstow 26, Buttler 11) Cummins bowls a lifter outside off stump and Buttler is equal to it, pulling out of his back-foot defensive shot at the last moment. Marnus Labuschagne appeals for caught behind when the bat wasn’t even close to the ball. “He’s been on the Smarties again,” says Mark … Read more
5.16am GMT 05:16 61st over: England 114-6 (Buttler 9, Woakes 9) Buttler seems to play Lyon with a different defensive shot every ball. There’s the prod, the leave, the back foot bunt, the jammed yorker. He’s surrounded by four, he turns it with the spin comfortably to short leg. He’s faced 54 balls. Adam Collins … Read more
9.12am GMT 09:12 11th over: England 32-1 (Burns 22, Malan 10) Malan leans onto the back foot, and cuts Lyon, confidently for four. Late and luscious. “Morning from Spain Tanya.” Good morning Dave Langlois Drastic measures but involving only two team changes, three if you count Root. First, bring in Bairstow as wicket keeper and … Read more
9.20am GMT 09:20 145th over: Australia 414-7 (Starc 14, Neser 12) Starc sees those two short mid-ons and simply chips over them for two runs. This partnership is 24 already. “Thanks to you and the rest of the OBO team,” says Stephen Schoofs, “for making our gradual descent back into Covid misery just a tad … Read more
Hello everybody and welcome to live coverage of day four of the opening Test of the 2021-22 Ashes from the Gabba. The day’s opening delivery will be bowled on the stroke of 9.30am local time in Brisbane (10.30am AEDT / 11.30pm GMT). It’s amazing what one good partnership can do isn’t it? From Watson and … Read more