Australia all out for 60 as Broad takes eight wickets

Joe Root scored a brilliant century as England soared to 229-3 to seize complete control of the fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge.

The Nottinghamshire man took eight for 15 on his home ground to wipe out the Aussies, taking his 300th Test wicket and drawing level with Fred Trueman on 307 overall scalps in the process. Broad said the performance had been “unbelievable”.

It was the first time in test history that the first five wickets of the match had fallen within 25 balls of the start.

“At Trent Bridge, it’s also a lot about the overhead conditions – because, unless the whole game is played under blue sky, I expect that the ball will swing”.

But they were not “unplayable”.

Especially, the Australian media and the British media are knocking the Oz Team.

The seventh wicket was not his, Steven Finn replacing Wood at the Radcliffe Road end and bowling Peter Nevill through the gate.

Mitchell Johnson (13) and Australia captain Michael Clarke (10) were the only batsmen to make double figure scores in the innings.

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The hosts, 2-1 up in the series and without their leading bowler James Anderson, needed only 18.3 overs to run through the touring side who collapsed to their joint sixth-lowest Ashes total in just over 90 minutes.

It was the first duck of Rogers’s 46-innings career in Test cricket.

Broad – now 29 years and 43 days old – is the second-youngest England player after Ian Botham to reach 300 Test wickets and just the ninth bowler to reach that landmark before turning 30.

Mark Wood briefly outdid his new-ball partner, striking with only his second delivery when David Warner got an inside-edge behind.

Michael Clarke: We’re batting first, so it doesn’t really matter what we would have done had we won the toss.

Yet Australia sprung something of a surprise with their adjustment on Thursday, Shaun Marsh coming in for brother Mitchell as Adam Voges, who had been expected to lose his place, earned a reprieve.

Broad then had Adam Voges (one) brilliantly caught one-handed by diving fifth slip Ben Stokes.