England on Top, Australia Succumbed to Broad Wave

Stuart Broad took 8-15 as Australia were bowled out for 60 and Joe Root hit a century as England put themselves in a strong position to win the Ashes on the first day of the fourth Test. Broad passed 300 wickets and equalled the fastest Test five-wicket haul - 19 deliveries as the tourists were dismissed in 111 balls at Trent Bridge. It was the shortest first innings in Test history.

Root's unbeaten 124 helped England to 274-4 at the close, a lead of 214.

Alastair Cook scored 43 and Jonny Bairstow made 74, sharing a fourth-wicket stand of 173 at more than five runs an over with Yorkshire team-mate Root.

Victory will give England an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series and see them regain the urn they lost courtesy of a 5-0 whitewash in Australia in 2013-14.

Historical First day of Trent Bridge Test 

· 111 balls (18.3 overs) is the shortest first innings of a Test, beating the 113   
  balls (22.3 five-ball overs) it took England to dismiss Australia at Lord's in   
  1896

· This is only the fourth time in Test history that a team has been bowled out    
  before lunch on the first day

· 60 is Australia's joint seventh lowest total in Tests,and their second lowest 
  since 1936

· Australia's top four faced a combined 12 deliveries

· Australia's first innings saw the earliest fall of the fourth, fifth and sixth wicket 
  in Test history

· Extras top-scored for the first time in an Ashes Test, with 14

· Mitchell Johnson was the next top score with his 13 of 31 balls

· Root's unbeaten 124 is the highest score in an Ashes Test in the second     
  innings on the first day

· Day-1 Australia Scored 60/10, England took a lead of 214 scoring 274/4 

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