Australia is clashing against England in the 2nd test of the Ashes series.
Australia won the toss and elected to bat first. Aussies batting first declared their innings on 473 at the loss of 9 wickets and England got out on 236. Aussies declared their second innings on 230 and England lost their 4 wickets on the score of 82 by stumps.
Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne smashed two crucial and amazing half centuries helping their side reach a big total.
Australia even made a quick attack with ball lead by Jhye Richardson by the end of the day.
Can England save the Match
Australia declared their second innings on 230 runs and with a 237 runs lead, the target in front of England was 468 runs.
Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed came to open the second innings for England.
Jhye Richardson dismissed Haseeb Hameed on duck in the second over itself.
Rory Burns and Dawid Malan did built a 44 runs partnership but it came to an end with Dawid Malan’s knock.
He got out after scoring 20 of 52 balls on Michael Neser’s delivery.
Jhye Richardson gave England another blow in form of Rory Burns in the 31st over. He got out after scoring 34 runs of 95 balls.
Joe Root the last hope for the English side returned to the pavalion by the last ball of the day.
He lost his wicket to Mitchell Starc after scoring 24 runs of 67 balls.
England lost both their Marquee player of the series, Root and Malan are now in pavalion, probably along England’s hope to save the match.
Ben Stokes is still on the pitch and England still have batsmen like Ollie Pope, Jos Buttler and Chris Woakes.
The only issue is none of them has performed that promisingly. Ben Stokes once did bat for hours and helped England draw match in the Ashes.
If England somehow can bat for almost 90 overs, they can save the match and they can pray that weather or light help them reduce some overs from the day.
These are the only possible way English side can pull this off, otherwise it’s an easy win for Aussies.
England by the end of stump day 4 are batting on 82 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. Ben Stokes is still on the pitch.
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