No time for running but who FFS cares! Still trying to get my head round the fact that by tea time on day 1 Engeeerland had a first innings lead and by close of play 200+ with 4 days to play. Mitchell Johnson was nowhere to be seen (yet again!) and his figures for the series are borderline rubbish.
The Aussies are getting a bashing and rightfully so - 'it's the way we play the game' they say.
This Rory Bremner tweet made me chuckle (with just about everything else I read today):
'Just watched the highlights package of Day One. Oh hang on, that was real time. #TMS #Ashes2015 #MyAshesSummer.'
Australia's miserable morning in numbers, a straight copy and paste job courtesy of the BBC - amusing that they managed to beat their own 119 year old record:
111 balls (18.3 overs) is the shortest first innings of a Test, beating the 113 balls (22.3 five-ball overs) it took England to dismiss Australia at Lord's in 1896
This is only the fourth time in Test history that a team has been bowled out before lunch on the first day - after Australia v England at Lord's in 1896, New Zealand v South Africa at Cape Town in 2013, and India v South Africa in Ahmedabad in 2008
60 is Australia's joint seventh lowest total in Tests, and their second lowest since 1936
Australia's top four faced a combined 12 deliveries :)
Australia's first innings saw the earliest fall of the fourth, fifth and sixth wicket in Test history
Extras top-scored for the first time in an Ashes Test, with 14 :) :)
Root's unbeaten 124 is the highest score in an Ashes Test in the second innings on the first day.
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