Another blistering day of Test cricket saw Root, defiant amid the frenzy, finally reach his landmark as Australia claimed nine wickets

Speedster Mitchell Starc claimed six wickets in the first session of the Gabba Test. England were put in immense trouble, but it was again Joe Root who bailed them out with his maiden Test century in Australia.

Joe Root finally notched his first Ashes hundred away from home while Australias pink-ball maestro Mitchell Starc bagged six wickets on an absorbing opening day of the second Test.

Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc achieved an elusive feat during the ongoing second Test match of the series against England, at The Gabba, on Thursday, December 4.

Australia's attack in the second Ashes Test is their "worst since 2010-11" and is "really second division" if you exclude Mitchell Starc, says BBC's chief cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew. Left-armer Starc, who took 10-113 in the first Test win in Perth, delivered again on day one in Brisbane with 6-71.

Australia's Mitchell Starc claimed his third first-over wicket of the Ashes on Thursday, by dismissing England opener Ben Duckett for a first-ball duck on day one of the second test in Brisbane.Starc

It was only the second time that Starc was playing a Test without Cummins, Hazlewood and Lyon, and he got 6 for 71 after day one in Brisbane

Gus Atkinson is brilliantly caught by Alex Carey for four, to give Mitchell Starc a fifth wicket as England fall to 264-8 on the opening day of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane.