Australia enjoy better of first day of fifth Ashes Test

Australia have capitalised on winning the toss for the first time in the series to take control of the fifth Ashes Test match at The Oval.

After putting England into bat, the Baggy Greens proceeded to bowl their hosts out for 283 before making 61-1 ahead of stumps on day one.

On an overcast morning with grass on the pitch, England would have been skeptical about making quick inroads, yet Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett put on 62 for the first wicket.

Duckett was first to go for a run-a-ball 41, Mitchell Marsh making the breakthrough, before Pat Cummins and Josh Hazelwood did for Crawley (22) and Joe Root (5).

Reduced to 73-3, England required a response, and Moeen Ali and Harry Brook delivered just that with a 111-run partnership either . . .