Ashes:ausgabba recordintact
REPORT CARD Hosts rout England by 10 wickets in first Test, maintain unbeaten 29year streak in Brisbane
AUSTRALIA 9.5 STEVE Smith held SMITH his side innings with together an unbeaten in the first 141 spanning 8 hours and 32 minutes. 8.5
NATHAN LYON
Lyon was side’s best bowler. A return of five wickets was the least he deserved, while his run-out of Vince was a key moment. 8
CAMERON BANCROFT
Failed in the first innings, but the debutant will take huge confidence from the unbeaten 82 he made as his side strolled to victory.
DAVID WARNER
Warner was guilty of a soft dismissal on day two. However, he made a significant score of 87 second time around.
PAT CUMMINS
Cummins was the pick of seam attack. He also made a valuable contribution with the bat, scoring 42 at 9 powering his side to take lead. 7.5
SHAUN MARSH
The experienced left-hand batsman from Perth answered his critics with a crucial fifty in Australia’s first innings. 7.5
JOSH HAZLEWOOD
Below his best in first innings, Hazlewood improved at the second time of asking, accounting for three of England’s top four. 7
MITCHELL STARC
Worryingly for England, Starc picked up six wickets despite appearing to struggle for rhythm. 6
TIM PAINE
Made a shaky start dropping James Vince on Day 1. However, stumping Moeen made up for it. Could make only 13 with the bat.
USMAN KHAWAJA
His fallibility against spin has been well documented and he looked all at sea when falling cheaply to Moeen Ali in his only innings.
PETER HANDSCOMB
His technique of batting deep in the crease has worked in previous Tests, but on this occasion he was plumb lbw to James Anderson for 14.
ENGLAND 8 JAMES Showed VINCE his class making 83 on beauty Day from 1 but Hazlewood, then fell cheaply, in the to second a innings. 8 STUART BROAD
Asked questions of batsmen throughout but was not flattered by figures of 3-49 from 25 overs. 7.5 JAMES He got only ANDERSON two wickets, but in their first kept innings, the pressure conceding on Australia just 50 from 29 overs. 7
MARK STONEMAN
Stoneman dug deep to lay a platform for his side in a commendable first-innings performance. 6.5 JOE ROOT Failed to make a telling contribution
with the bat. After reaching 51, he was out playing across. 6.5 DAWID MALAN
Malan shone with a first-innings 50. However, his sloppy dismissal to Starc triggered an England collapse. 6 MOEEN He was comfortably ALI out-bowled by opposition off-spinner Lyon, a cut on the former’s spinning finger not helping matters. 6 JONNY BAIRSTOW
The head-butt incident apart, Bairstow kept impressively but twice fell to poor strokes, for nine and 42. 4 CHRIS WOAKES
Largely ineffective with the ball, Woakes struggled to back up the efforts of England’s new-ball pair. 4
JAKE BALL
Made a promising start by removing Warner, but that was as good as it got for England’s fourth seamer, who leaked runs alarmingly. 3
ALASTAIR COOK
England’s most experienced bat fell cheaply. His second dismissal off a top-edged hook in particular prompts concern.
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I thought Nathan Lyon was particularly good. He’s going from strength to strength at the moment and bowling like a genius. STEVE SMITH, on Nathan Lyon