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Ashes 2019: England v Australia fourth Test, day one – live!






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Hello everybody. Have you caught your breath yet? Heart rate returned to normal? Reconsidered the urge to call your newborn Ben? Good, because it’s Ashes time again, specifically live OBO coverage of the fourth Test from Old Trafford.

The series scoreline reads one-all with two to play but that hides the evidence of an already extraordinary contest. From James Anderson’s injury to Ben Stokes’s masterpiece via Steve Smith’s comeback and 67 all out, there has barely been a dull moment since the opening ball at Edgbaston over a month ago.

Attention now turns to Manchester where pop psychologists will be out in force to measure the impact of Stokes’s heroics on the Ashes combatants. Prevailing wisdom suggests England are now an unstoppable juggernaut while Australia will be mentally disintegrated after such an agonising defeat. I’m not so sure.

Stick with us for the next few days to find out. You can even join in if you like while it all unfolds. For the next hour or so you can do that by contacting me on email or Twitter. Then once play gets under way at 11am BST, I’ll hand you over to Geoff Lemon.





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