Half-century from Ben Duckett and his partnerships with Zak Crawley and Ollie Pope put England in a solid position in their first innings of the second Ashes Test in reply to Australia's 416
Sikandar Raza and Sean Williams scored a blistering knock of 102* off 54 balls and 91 off 58 balls. Sikandar Raza also took four wickets in the first innings.
A century from Usman Khawaja (141) helped Australia to 386 in reply to England's first innings score of 393/8 delcared. In the second innings, England stood at 28/2 at the end of rain-affected day three with a 35-run lead over the visitors. Khawaja is in a red-hot form this year. In seven Te
In Australia's first innings, after Ollie took the big wicket of Usman for 141, he gave a loud and aggressive send-off to the batter while celebrating, which might have involved some abusive words.
Khawaja displayed an excellent show in the first innings of Australia on the 2nd day of the 1st Test match of the Ashes series. He scored 126(279)* as Australia trailed by 82 runs, scoring 311/5.
"I said to Ben Stokes a month ago in Chennai, 'If you were eight down in the first innings, would you declare? He said 'Yeah, why would we send Jimmy Anderson out to bat?," said Hussain told Sky Sports.
Former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen was critical of the decision made by the English team to declare the first innings at 393/8 in the opening test match Ashes series against Australia at Edgbaston in Birmingham.
England's wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow hailed the adventurous declaration from Ben Stokes in the opener match of Ashes against Australia on day 1 and said that it is the best form of attack. England declared the first innings at 393/8 in the hope of snapping up a late wicket at Edgbaston.
Beth Mooney played an outstanding knock of 107, however, Australia bundled out for 284 runs after they chose to bat first in the first innings of the warm-up match.
With an outstanding performance in the first innings in the World Test Championship final, Australian batter Travis Head has jumped to the third position in the ICC Men's Test Batting Rankings