Australia has defeated England by 275 runs in the 2nd test match to gain 2-0 lead in the Ashes series.
Australia won the toss and elected to bat first. Aussies batting first declared their innings on 473 and England got out on 236. Aussies declared their second innings on 230 and then bowled out England on 192 to win the match by 275 runs.
Jhye Richardson grabbed 5 wickets in the second innings and helped bowled out England quickly.
Marnus Labuschagne was awarded with the player of the match award for his amazing century in the first innings followed by the half century in the second.
Labuschagne on winning the match
Ben Stokes along with Ollie Pope came to start the innings for England on the final day of the test match.
Mitchell Starc started the Aussie attack as he dismissed Ollie Pope in just the third over of the day. He got out after scoring just 4 runs of 7 balls.
Ben Stokes was then joined by Jos Buttler to progress the scoreboard. Nathan Lyon ended their small partnership of 19 runs as he dismissed Ben Stokes in the 57th over.
He got out after scoring 12 runs of 77 balls. Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon gave England really early blows in the game.
England were an urgent need of a partnership and two players who can hold the ground for them.
Jos Buttler and Chris Woakes were on the pitch and both of them did a 61 runs partnership and batted for more than 30 overs.
They did the biggest and most crucial partnership from the English side in the second innings.
Jhye Richardson broke their Partnership in the 88th over as he dismissed Chris Woakes on the score of 44 of 97 balls.
Nathan Lyon then dismissed Ollie Robinson on the score of 8 runs of 39 balls, giving England their 8th blow.
Jhye Richardson then grabbed the most crucial wicket of the match in form of Jos Buttler.
The only disappointment was that the fabulous show by Jos Buttler came to an end due to a hit-wicket.
Jhye Richardson then grabbed his fifth and the last wicket of the match in form of James Anderson.
England got all out on 192 and as a result Aussies won the match by 275 runs.
Marnus Labuschagne was awarded with the player of the match award for his great knocks in both the Innings.
He depicted his happiness for his first ever ton in the Ashes cricket but told that he was also disappointed to not being able to turn it into a big one.
He congratulated both Jhye Richardson and Michael Neser for their spectacular performance.
He said in spite of the absence of Cummins and Hazlewood, Team dominated the bowling, which is a really good indication.
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