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Snapshot of the first day of the first Ashes Test at the Gabba between Australia and England.
AUSTRALIA v ENGLAND, FIRST TEST, DAY ONE:
Score: England 147; Australia 0-0
Summary: A first-ball wicket for Mitchell Starc set the tone for a day of Australian dominance, with Pat Cummins doing no wrong in his first day as Australian captain to finish with five scalps. Joe Root began his Ashes series with a duck before the rain arrived and bad light delaying Australia's innings start.
Man of the moment: All the Australian quicks put their hands up, but it had to be new captain Cummins who reaped the rewards.
Key moment: Mitchell Starc was again under the microscope entering the series but had the perfect and immediate reply, swinging the first delivery of the series around Rory Burns' pads into leg stump to the delight of the packed house.
Stat of the day: It was just the fourth time in total and first Ashes Test since 2006 that at least one of Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad didn't play for England.
Quote of the day: "He's so polite ... he came in and apologised, said 'sorry, I probably over-celebrated there' and I was like 'no such thing'," Pat Cummins on teammate Cameron Green after he took his long-awaited first Test wicket.
