'Super unlucky' Harry Brooke departs after never-seen-before dismissal: Watch

It seemed every bit thatHarry Brooks misfortunes from the recentlyconcluded IPL were carried into the Ashes series after he was dismissed in the most bizarre manner on the first day of play in the opener on FridayUpbeat Australia threatened to take control of the first day of the Ashes series before an unbeaten 64run partnership between Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow lifted England to 2405 at tea in an evenlybalanced contest Root was 66 not out and his Yorkshire clubmate Bairstow had 33 The pair came together after Brook was out in bizarre fashion on thesecond delivery of the 38th over In what seemed like a harmless delivery on the leg stump Brook decided to shoulder his arms in the hope of not being adjudged out in front of the stumps as Lyon bowled round the wicket PerplexedBrook was busy in retaining his posture when the ball lobbed off his thigh high into the air With wicketkeeper Alex Carey and backward shortleg fielder Marnus Labuschagne looking up in search of the ball it had not only deceived Brooke but also the fielders nearbyWatch the video belowA freak dismissalLive clipsScorecard httpstcoTZMO0eJDwY pictwittercomcIUQaANJ2xmdash England Cricket englandcricket June 16 2023Coming to the match England scored at nearly five runs an over in the morning but refrained from an allout Bazball attack settling for a mix of some 54 singles and 12 fours but no sixes to go to lunch on 1243 against an uncharacteristically cautious Australia Ben Stokes was out for a single to Josh Hazlewood 244 in wicketkeeper Alex Careys third catch of the innings Root and Brook brought up their 50 partnership at almost a runaballAlso Read England vs Australia Five players to look forward to during Ashes 2023 SeriesAustralia needed wickets and broke through though not in the way it expected Lyon 271 bowled Brook when the batters thigh pad sent the ball looping into the air and seemingly away from his crease before dropping centrally and spinning back onto the stumps with Brook taking no preventive actionStokes came into huge cheers and almost got out in the same over putting his wicket in peril with an ambitious reverse sweep The captain was caught behind shortly after at the other end appealed and walked off when the screen showed a definite edgeEngland was 1765 and the game moving Australias way until Root and Bairstow joined forcesZak Crawley 61 was earlier dismissed by seamer Scott Boland off the last ball before lunch Australia had set mostly defensive fields after losing the toss on an excellent wicket to bat on in hot and sunny conditionsAustralia captain Pat Cummins said he would have also batted first no surprise given his team boasts the top threeranked Test batters in Marnus Labuschagne Steve Smith and Travis HeadAustralia has not won an Ashes series in England since 2001 but entered the game as the newly crowned world test champion after beating India on Sunday It hammered England 40 in the last Ashes series in 202122 meaning Australia needs only to draw the bestoffive contest to keep crickets famed urnWith AP inputs