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11-Jul-2015 16:30:00 GMT
England v Australia, 1st Test, Cardiff, 4th day

England go 1-0 up With Emphatic Win

Cardiff: England took a 1-0 lead in the Ashes after a superb bowling display on day four wrapped up a 169-run win against Australia in the first Test at Cardiff.

Needing 412 for an unlikely win, the tourists lost Chris Rogers early before David Warner and Steve Smith put on 78.

Moeen Ali trapped Warner lbw for 52 before Stuart Broad removed Smith (33) and Michael Clarke (four) as England took four wickets for nine runs.

Mitchell Johnson hit 77 but his side were eventually all out for 242.

Stuart Broad led England's attack with three for 39 as Ashes-holders Australia, who had been 97 for one, collapsed either side of lunch on the fourth day.

England made 430, with Joe Root top-scoring with 134 after being dropped on nought, before dismissing Australia for 308 to establish a first-innings lead of 122.

Their second innings 289 left Australia, who whitewashed England 5-0 on home soil during the last Ashes campaign in 2013/14, with a mammoth run chase.

No side have made more in the fourth innings to win an Ashes Test than Australia's 404 for three at Headingley back in 1948 when Arthur Morris scored 182 and Donald Bradman, widely regarded as cricket's greatest batsman, an unbeaten 173.

Root, appropriately, ended the match when he caught Josh Hazlewood at long-off from the bowling of off-spinner Moeen Ali.

The second Test at Lord's starts on Thursday, with Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc struggling to be fit for that match after suffering an ankle injury in Cardiff.

Brief scores
England -
430 (Root 134, Moeen 77, Ballance 61, Stokes 52, Starc 5-114) and 289 (Bell 60, Root 60, Lyon 4-75)
Australia - 308 (Rogers 95, Anderson 3-43) and 242 (Johnson 77, Warner 52, Broad 3-39)
Result -  England won by 169 runs


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