Sydney Cricket Ground: Joe Root and Harry Brook’s unbeaten 154-run partnership helped England survive an early collapse as the visitors recovered from 57/3 and reached 211/3 before bad weather halted play at the stroke of tea, and early stumps were called due to rain and lightning.
Only 45 overs of play were possible on Day 1 of the fifth and final Ashes Test here at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday as dark clouds gathered as the afternoon wore on, and persistent rain arrived shortly before the scheduled tea break, forcing officials to call an early stumps with England well placed heading into Day 2.
After captain Ben Stokes won the toss and elected to bat, England took advantage on the first day of the New Year’s Ashes Test at the SCG by establishing an unbroken partnership of over a hundred runs between Root and Brook.
