James Wallace runs through the early exchanges at HQ

Day 1 stumps:
Australia 1st innings 339-5 (Steve Smith 85*, Alex Carey 11*)
Grey skies. Muggy. Stokes wins the toss and bowls. A no-brainer you’d think, especially with a greentinged pitch. You can almost smell the Aussie wickets already, this could be carnage… err, actually, not quite.
Any daydreams of a Trent Bridge in 2015-style skittling were soon put paid to by an obdurate and skilful negotiation of the new ball by Warner and Khawaja. Warner was particularly pugnacious, cutting, driving and even lap-sweeping his way to 66 off just...