There are some clouds building overhead, but the sun is still out.
Brook clips to backward point, gets a single, does he want two! He shouldn’t, and eventually agrees to stay with the single.
Ben Stokes on strike, England’s Sauron.
CLOSE! Oh my word, Stokes walks to the off side, exposing his stumps, and the ball bounces over leg stump. That would have deflated the crowd somewhat.
Stokes defends solidly this time.
Leg side, Stokes clips the ball off his pads, it’s raced down there to fine leg where Starc does some good work to save a boundary. They run four. It’s been said before but Starc definitely was not in control of his body there, as he Bambi-like slid on his knees and staggered back onto his hands and knees.
OUCH! Right in the Joe Roots and the England captain is down! That hit flush. Oh my word.
