[sport] The Ashes 2023: England v Australia, first Test, day one – live

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56th over: England 262-5 (Root 74, Bairstow 47) Lyon gets through a positively parsimonous over, just a single to Bairstow off it. “Stig of the Dump for Jack Russell or vice versa” offers Tim Quinn. Brian Withington is spot on with this one too: “Hi James, Responding to Tim Sowula’s splendid challenge, can I offer the opening credits of this old classic children’s series, StingrayThe immortal words ‘Stand by for action!’, and ‘Anything could happen in the next half hour …’ could almost have been designed for the Stokes era of Test cricket. And what about that theme tune!”55th over: England 261-5 (Root 74, Bairstow 46) The crowd let out a low groan of delight (calm down) as Bairstow plays one of the shots of the day, a drive threaded through the field on the off side off , wonderful hands to mani[CENSORED]te the ball into the gap. Scotty B has gone for 86 from his 14 overs so far today. He snaffled Crawley earliet but it has been quite chastening stuff for the Melburnian.54th over: England 252-5 (Root 74, Bairstow 39) Lyon is worked away (more sedately) for a couple of singles. Ian Sargent has gone down memory lane: “Obo-ers of a certain age will recall Bod – an animated-ish kids series of the late 70’s early 80’s. Every time Stuart Broad complains about the shape of a ball I often think that it might look a bit like the lead characters head. Other than that, Top Cat was a favourite of mine. Stokes as Top Cat – Root as Choo-Choo the smart pink one with the white polo neck (clearly nursing a bad back) – Rob Key as Benny (the ball) - Spook, the street savvy one surely Jimmy Anderson - Fancy the ladies man, Stuart Broad.” Matt Kirkham in County Down isn’t afraid of chiming in either:

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