Australia made an incredible start to the Ashes Thursday with Mitchell Starc bowling Rory Burns with the first ball of the series.
Left-armer Starc came into the game under pressure after recent criticism in the media, and he responded by knocking over Burns’ leg stump with a full delivery on an overcast day.
That brought Dawid Malan to the wicket and he immediately got off the mark with a boundary. Haseeb Hameed was yet to score.
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