Cricket - Ashes 2019 - Third Test - England v Australia - Headingley, Leeds, Britain - August 23, 2019 Australia's Travis Head in action Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith
(Reuters) -Captain Joe Root and Dawid Malan scored defiant half-centuries in a stirring, unbeaten partnership as England rallied from a position of peril to win their first day of the Ashes at the Gabba on Friday.
Coming together at 61 for two, Root and Malan pushed England to 220 for two at stumps on day three, having cut Australia's lead to 58 runs and raised a sliver of hope of saving a match that looked beyond them by the end of day two.
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