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by Elizabeth Botcherby, Timothy Abraham & George Booth

  1. How's stat?!

    Srinivas Vijaykumar
    CricViz analyst

    Zak Crawley has now scored 93 runs off 87 balls playing on the front foot in this Test. Before this Test, he had seven dismissals in Australia off the front foot at an average of 15.6. In Tests since 2006 at The Gabba, only three batters have scored more runs off the front foot in a match than Crawley.

    Most runs off the front foot against pacers at Gabba

    • 1) Michael Clarke - 125 off 229 balls v South Africa, 2012
    • 2) Murali Vijay - 116 off 125 balls v Australia, 2014
    • 3) David Warner - 106 off 116 balls v New Zealand, 2015
    • 4) Zak Crawley - 93* off 87 balls v Australia, 2025

  2. Eng 71-1

    Australia will always feel in the game while Zak Crawley is there.

  3. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

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    You always feel that morale is high against Zak Crawley even though he might hit you a bit.

  4. Eng 71-1

    Zak Crawley survives. By a couple of inches.

    Another big drive off Mitchell Starc this time and it flies to gully region where the imposing figure of Cameron Green is lurking menacingly. All 6ft 6in of him. Like Jaws out of James Bond.

    Green raises his hands to catch the ball but it goes just over him.

    A lucky escape for the England opener, who picks up a rather fortunate boundary.

  5. Eng 66-1

    The ball which got Ben Duckett from Scott Boland really did stay very low.

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    Tea came at the wrong time. England had confidently seen off the first six overs and had put a small dent into the Aussie defence. We’ve now seen how important that tea break has been for Australia. Momentum and pressure has shifted.

    Hoff, Stubbington

  7. Eng 63-1

    Ollie Pope is confident enough to step across his stumps a fraction and clip Scott Boland off his toes for four. Nicely played.

    Later in the over Zak Crawley drives, gloriously, through mid-on for four...only to follow it up with a big booming cover drive which does not connect.

  8. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    There's slightly a difference in the game since before the break. It is in full darkness with a hard ball. Scott Boland has got his tail up here. Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett looked very comfortable before the break, but now it is inconsistent with the bounce.

  9. Eng 52-1

    Steve Smith can sense the pressure building on England and recalls Mitchell Starc, to the attack.

    Starc's family heritage is Slovenian, incidentally. He reckons his surname was Starcovic once up a time.

    The menacing pink-ball maestro from Maribor, maybe? The lethal left-armer from Ljubljana, perhaps?

    Zak Crawley picks up a couple with an inside edge down to fine leg.

  10. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC Chief Cricket Commentator on Test Match Special

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    Scott Boland is loving this. He is in absolute control at the moment.

  11. Eng 50-1

    Scott Boland looks a real threat for Australia. Insert a cliche about having the ball on a piece of string.

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    And so it begins….. dread turns to promise and now a realisation of Aussie dominance down under.

    Simon, Manchester

    It’s going to be all on Joe’s shoulders again to get us anything like a target to bowl at!

    DM, Nuneaton

  13. Eng 50-1

    Trail by 127 runs

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    Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey, that well-known ambassador of fair play, appeals for a caught-behind off a delivery from Scott Boland which clearly struck Zak Crawley on the pad.

    Marnus Labuschagne, stood next to him in the slips, wants none of it.

    A couple of balls later Boland raps Ollie Pope on the pad, but Steve Smith declines to review with it seemingly hitting the England opener outside the line.

  14. Eng 49-1

    Brendan Doggett finds some extra bounce off the Gabba pitch to give Ollie Pope a few issues during a maiden over.

    Australia piling on the pressure.

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    Massive, massive session for England coming up. It’s all about discipline and shot selection.

    Dave, Pontypool

  16. Eng 49-1

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    The sideways view of that dismissal really showed how much that delivery from Scott Boland kept low.

    Boland draws a leading edge from the bat of Ollie Pope with his next delivery but it falls short of the Aussie seamer to deny him a caught-and-bowled chance.

  17. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    If it's on line of the stumps there is not a huge amount you can do with it. The cracks are starting to play.

  18. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC Chief Cricket Commentator on Test Match Special

    The body language of Ben Duckett suggests that stayed very low.

    Duckett is walking off like a man betrayed.

  19. wicket

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    Duckett b Boland 15 (Eng 48-1)

    Scott Boland manages to sneak one through the defence of Ben Duckett.

    It's on a length from the Aussie seamer but stayed a bit low and scuttles off the toe of Duckett's bat and into the stumps.

    Duckett drags his heels as he trudges off.

  20. Glenn McGrath
    Ex-Australia bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    The line was good, just a little high from Brendan Doggett.