Stuart Broad dismissed David Warner but once more earlier than capturing the prize wicket of Steve Smith as Australia slumped to 91-4 at lunch on the primary day of the third Ashes Test at Headingley on Thursday. At 2-0 down with three to play, England should win to maintain the sequence alive and acquired off to an ideal begin when Broad (2-20) struck within the very first over of the match. England captain Ben Stokes had despatched Australia in to bat on a green-tinged pitch and that decision paid dividends as categorical quick bowler Mark Wood additionally impressed on his return to the facet with 1-8 in six overs. Australia took the sector to a refrain of boos with many within the crowd nonetheless upset by the controversial dismissal of native hero Jonny Bairstow, given out stumped when he thought the ball was lifeless, within the vacationers’ 43-run win within the second Test at Lord’s final week.

Warner drove Broad, main the assault within the absence of the rested James Anderson, for 4 off the primary ball of the day.

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But 4 balls later the left-hander fell to his longtime nemesis for the sixteenth time in 29 Tests.

Warner pushed ahead to a round-the-wicket supply solely to get a thick outdoors edge that was effectively caught excessive to his left at second slip by Zak Crawley.

Wood, one among three modifications to the England facet, got here on for his first spell of the sequence with Australia 27-1.

He instantly hit speeds in extra of 90 miles per hour (mph), with the injury-prone Durham fast unsettling Marnus Labuschagne as he confirmed England what that they had been lacking with no real quick bowler.

But it was Usman Khawaja, so typically a thorn in England’s facet this sequence, who fell to Wood when bowled between bat and pad on the drive for 13 by a 95 mph thunderbolt that flattened the left-handed opener’s leg stump.

Australia had been now 42-2 as Smith walked out to bat in his a hundredth Test recent from 100 at Lord’s.

Smith was practically out for simply 4 when he inside-edged an Ollie Robinson supply that in the reduction of sharply off the seam, just for a diving Bairstow to drop a tough left-handed probability.

But England struck once more when paceman Chris Woakes, like Wood enjoying his first match of the sequence, squared up Labuschagne (21) and Joe Root held a regulation catch at first slip to depart Australia 61-3.

Travis Head ought to have been out for 9 when he gloved Wood down the legside just for Bairstow, whose wicketkeeping has proved fallible this sequence, to drop the catch regardless of getting each fingers to the ball.

Bairstow, nevertheless, made no mistake with a routine catch when Smith, on 22, acquired a skinny inside edge to a Broad ball that nipped again to depart Australia 85-4 regardless of the batsman’s evaluate.

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