England debutant Tom Curran is not the only player to miss out on a first Test wicket due to a no-ball this decade. Benedict Bermange explains...
Surrey seamer Curran became the fifth player to miss out on a maiden Test wicket due to a no-ball this decade - and the third for England in the last four years...
- Michael Beer (2011)
- Ben Stokes (2013)
- Mark Wood (2015)
- Stuart Binny (2015)
- Tom Curran (2017)
And here's who they could have got out...
- Alastair Cook (Beer)
- Brad Haddin (Stokes)
- Martin Guptill (Wood)
- Kaushal Silva (Binny)
- David Warner (Curran)
Curran became the fourth England player to make his Test debut on Boxing Day...
- Phil Tufnell v Australia (Melbourne, 1990)
- Warren Hegg v Australia (Melbourne, 1998)
- Alex Hales v South Africa (Durban, 2015)
- Tom Curran v Australia (Melbourne, 2017)
Elsewhere, when he dismissed Warner, James Anderson became the seventh England bowler to take 100 Test wickets against Australia. He became the 14th from any country to take 100 wickets against Australia and the 39th person to take 100 Test wickets against any team...
With that wicket, he also drew level with Courtney Walsh's total of 519 Test wickets into a tie for fifth place in the list of all-time Test wicket-takers.
Stuart Broad's 69 overs between wickets is his longest wicketless spell in his Test career, beating his 66.5 overs against the Windies and South Africa in England in 2012.
Australia captain Steve Smith has now scored 434 runs since his last dismissal in a Test at the MCG in 2014...
The final crowd on day one at the MCG was recorded at 88,172, which means the record for a day of Test cricket from the first day of the 2013 Ashes Test of 91,112 still stands.