Australia, however, missed the chance to capture the Ashes urn as England kept the series alive after winning the Headingley test by three wickets on the fourth day, making the series 2-1.
Head played well in tough conditions against a top-class England pace attack in the third Ashes Test at Headingley, scoring a gutsy 77 in 112 balls while wickets fell from the other end. He helped Australia take their lead to 250 and give England 251 runs to win their first Ashes game of the
Sublime bowling display from Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes provided England with the upper hand over Australia as the visitors finished on 116/4 in response to hosts 237, taking a 142 runs lead during the Day 2 of the ongoing third Ashes Test here at Headingley on Friday.
Australian bowlers dominated the first session of Day 2 at Headingley as they took four wickets in the session leaving England batters to rethink their 'Bazball' strategy.
At the end of the first session, England are 142/7 and trailed by 121 runs. At the crease is Ben Stokes batting on 27* a
On the first day of the third test, England continued to let down with their on-field performance. Jonny Bairstow dropped catches behind the stumps of Steve Smith and Travis Head while Joe Root filed to catch Mitchell Marsh at 12 runs. Marsh then scored 118 runs in the match.
In the match, Wood delivered a fantastic spell. In 11.4 overs, he took five wickets, giving only 34 runs at an economy rate of 2.91. He got wickets of Usman Khawaja, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Todd Murphy.
Before this, Marsh last played a Test in September 2019. In his absence, Cameron Green emerged as a big all-rounder option for Australia, but despite that, Marsh kept hoping. He finally got another chance at Headingley and came out to bat when Australia was 85/4, with his third Test ton, whi