Ashes 2021-22, 5th Test, Day 1 Stumps: Travis Head century puts Australia in the driving seat;
As weather brought an early end to the fifth and final Ashes 2021-22 Test against England in Hobart on Friday, Travis Head hit a brilliant century to put Australia in command at stumps.
With the team’s score at 236/6 at the start of the third session, Mark Wood dismissed Cameron Green for 74 runs after being caught out by Zak Crawley.
Carey was then joined by Starc, who increased the team’s score to 241/6 before Day 1 was called due to rain.
| BATTING | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||||
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| David Warner | c Crawley b Robinson | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |||
| Usman Khawaja | c Root b Broad | 6 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 23.07 | |||
| Marnus Labuschagne | b Broad | 44 | 53 | 9 | 0 | 83.01 | |||
| Steven Smith | c Crawley b Robinson | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |||
| Travis Head | c Robinson b Woakes | 101 | 113 | 12 | 0 | 89.38 | |||
| Cameron Green | c Crawley b Wood | 74 | 109 | 8 | 0 | 67.88 | |||
| Alex Carey † | not out | 10 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 37.03 | |||
| Mitchell Starc | not out | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |||
| Extras | (b 3, lb 2, w 1) | 6 | |||||||
| TOTAL | (59.3 Ov, RR: 4.05) | 241/6 | |||||||
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Yet to bat: Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Nathan Lyon
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Fall of wickets: 1-3 (David Warner, 5.6 ov), 2-7 (Usman Khawaja, 8.6 ov), 3-12 (Steven Smith, 9.5 ov), 4-83 (Marnus Labuschagne, 22.1 ov), 5-204 (Travis Head, 48.5 ov), 6-236 (Cameron Green, 57.6 ov)
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| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | WD | NB |
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| Stuart Broad | 18 | 4 | 48 | 2 | 2.66 | 1 | 0 |
| Ollie Robinson | 8 | 3 | 24 | 2 | 3.00 | 0 | 0 |
| Mark Wood | 11.3 | 0 | 79 | 1 | 6.86 | 0 | 0 |
| Chris Woakes | 12 | 1 | 50 | 1 | 4.16 | 0 | 0 |
| Joe Root | 10 | 1 | 35 | 0 | 3.50 | 0 | 0 |