What a morning for England. A masterclass of bowling from Stuart Broad, Mark Wood and James Anderson had Australia’s tail cleaned up in devastating fashion within the first hour of play. The hosts will be disappointed to have once again lost their captain Alastair Cook so cheaply, but with a lead of 143 at lunch, they will be happy enough with their morning’s work. That’s it for the updates today; we leave it with England well and truly on top in Cardiff.
by Mike Berriman
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By Michael Berriman
England were in chaos at 43-3 earlier today but a superb partnership from Joe Root and Gary Ballance swung the test back in their favour by this evening.
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Emily Scarratt is due to receive an honorary degree from Leeds Beckett
By Emma Kirwan
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Ryan Sidebottom in action against Warwickshire
Cricket players
The Ashes begins at Lords on Wednesday with English hopes resting largely on a quartet of Yorkshire talent.
Joe Root, Gary Ballance, Adam Lyth and Adil Rashid are all included in England’s 13-man squad picked to play Australia.
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Matthew Huggett
By Leah Waller
A Leeds Trinity student who died after a six month battle with cancer will be remembered by fellow peers in a charity ‘clash of the codes’ rugby match on Friday.
Matthew Huggett, from Essex, was just 21 when he died in December 2013 after being diagnosed with Metastatic Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, which prevented him from completing his sports journalism degree.
Matthew’s dad, Steve Huggett, 54, said: “He would absolutely love it because he was fanatic about sport.
“Rugby was his 100% passion, any rugby match anywhere he’d be watching.”