Ashes 2023 live: England v Australia fifth Test score and weather at the Oval

No sign of Todd Murphy just yet, with Mitchell Marsh taking us through to lunch. Harry Brook will fill his belly two short of a half-century, another crisply-struck drive earning him two from the session’s final ball with the game hurtling along, as has been the fashion all series.

Violent! Harry Brook eases a lovely drive to the offside boundary before engaging in something more extravagant, front dog cleared and his hands thrashing Mitchell Starc through point with sheer velocity leaving the point sweeper helpless.

Hoicked for six! Brook anticipates Starc’s response is likely to be short, stepping across to winch the attempted bouncer high over fine leg’s head.

Moeen Ali is biding his time, happy to pat and prod with lunch not far away. Will Pat Cummins give Todd Murphy a look before the interval? Spin hasn’t played a huge role at the Oval so far this summer but the suggestions before the toss were that this track should take some turn.

Mitchell Starc will bowl what is likely to be the penultimate over of the session.

Mitchell Starc puts Brook back in his box, spotting a pugilistic charge down the track and dragging down a bouncer that clonks into the batter’s body.

Tonked! Cor, that’s some shot from Harry Brook, Mitchell Marsh just a little bit short and manhandled over square leg fora maximum a ball after being clouted to the cover fence. Brook is riding his luck but already has five fours and that hoist for six.

Moeen Ali follows along with effortless off-side elegance, driving on the up with sufficient force to prompt a fumble from Usman Khawaja sweeping on the point boundary, the home crowd giving the fielder a bit of stick having turned two into four.

Another edge evades the catchers, that gap between third slip and gully found again by Brook. Khawaja takes a step to his right and Mitchell Marsh his left to try to plug the dyke.

Harry Brook at last gets that drive away, flaying with loose wrists as Josh Hazlewood’s outswinger curves into his arc.

Pat Cummins takes a breather and tosses the ball Mitchell Starc’s way.

Moeen Ali’s method against the short ball at Old Trafford was to duck and dodge, but he gets himself in a tangle trying to drop beneath Pat Cummins’s first bumper of the day, left with no option but to let it slam into a parrying arm.

Testing stuff from Cummins.

It didn’t feel like Australia were effective in that first hour but to have created five catching opportunities behind the stumps inside 90 minutes will please Pat Cummins, even if three have gone down. And that’s almost another, Harry Brook again foolishly throwing his hands in a yearning drive and rather fortunate to find the cordon cavity with neither Usman Khawaja at third slip bnor Mitchell Marsh in the gully close enough to launch for it.