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Partners in time to stir up some sparks among the Ashes

Harry Brook and Joe Root have built a platform for England on day one of the Sydney Test. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

The yin-and-yang of Harry Brook and Joe Root has headlined England's best batting day of the Ashes, helping the tourists to 3-211 before a storm ended day one at the SCG early.

With their side down 3-1 in the series and the Ashes decided, Brook and Root's unbeaten 154-run counter-attacking stand helped rescue England from 3-57 in the fifth Test on Sunday.

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