Australian teenager Ashton Agar broke the record for the highest score by a Test number 11 in the first Ashes Test against England at Trent Bridge.
The debutant left-arm spinner was out for 98, beating the previous top score of 95 made by West Indies’ Tino Best against England at Edgbaston in 2012.
Agar and Phillip Hughes (81 not out) also surpassed the record Test partnership of 151 for the 10th wicket.
Australia were finally dismissed for 280, a first-innings lead of 65 with James Anderson claiming five wickets.
Agar had already beaten the previous best Test score by a debutant number 11 - 45 not out by Warwick Armstrong, for Australia against England at Melbourne in 1902.
The 19-year-old joined Hughes at the wicket with the score on 117-9 and the pair added 163 before Agar was last man out, caught by Graeme Swann on the mid-wicket boundary off the bowling of Stuart Broad.
The previous 10th-wicket record of 151 was set by New Zealand duo Brian Hastings and Richard Collinge against Pakistan in 1973, and equalled in 1997 by Pakistan’s Azhar Mahmood and Mushtaq Ahmed against South Africa in Rawalpindi.
England had an awkward eight-over period to survive before tea but Starc made a crucial double strike.
Root was strangled down the leg side for five and then Trott’s contentious dismissal followed to leave England 54 behind with eight batsmen left.
But Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen led an England recovery as they led England to 80-2, a lead of 15 at stumps.
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