A half-century by David Warner helped Australia make a solid start, but pacer Josh Tongue struck just before the first session ended to make sure England headed to lunch on a high during the first day of the second Ashes Test at Lord's on Wednesday.
Brendon McCullum, the current head coach of the England cricket Test team, has confirmed that the 33-year-old pace bowler Mark Wood will come into contention for selection at Lord's after missing the first Test.
Karunaratne, who had made 179 in the first Test at the same venue last week, stitched a 228-run opening stand with Nishan Madushka and made his 16th Test hundred in the process
New Zealand bowlers dominated Sri Lankan batters on Day-3. Michael Bracewell and Matt Henry picked up three wickets each in the first innings. Sri Lanka lost all their wickets for a score of 164. New Zealand decided to impose follow on. Sri Lanka ended up losing two wickets in their second
During his remarkable innings of 215 on Day 2 of the second Test, Kane Williamson became the first-ever New Zealand player to notch up 8000 Test runs. Just last month during the second Test against England in Wellington, Williamson had gone past Ross Taylor's tally of 7683 runs to become the