Key Highlights
- 1-ranked batter in test cricket posted his maiden hundred in an Ashes match Down Under late on Day 1 and shared a 70-run last-wicket stand with No.
- 11 Jofra Archer.
- Brendan Doggett picked up the last wicket on the 14th ball of the day for Australia when Archer hooked and Marnus Labuschagne took a diving, one-handed catch at backward square.
- England's innings lasted 76.2 overs.
- Root faced 206 deliveries in his drought-breaking century, his first in four Ashes tours to Australia.
