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Match Details
AUS vs ENG 2nd TEST, The Ashes 2023
ENG 325(76.2)
327-1081.3
Australia won by 43 runs 🏆
416(100.4)
AUS
101.5279-10
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An exhilarating Test match comes to an end with another thriller, another nail biter in the Ashes series. That will be all from our end to this coverage. It is me, Ninaad Dixit signing off on behalf of my co-commentator Akshay Bhide and scorer Bishal Mandal. Stay tuned for more cricketing action from around the world.
Ashes 2nd Test Day 5 Bulletin:
Stokes is given out leg before on 39 against Starc but a review saves him
Stokes and Duckett take their partnership beyond 3 figures
England surpass the 150-run mark
Stokes brings up his half-century in 99 balls
Drinks, Session 1: ENG 174/4 (Duckett 81, Stokes 55)
Hazlewood breaks the 132-run stand by dismissing Duckett on 83
Jonny Bairstow is run out in a controversial manner walking down the pitch before the ball was dead
Stokes goes berserk and brings up his ton with three consecutive sixes off Green
Lunch, day 5: ENG 243/6 (57 Overs), (Stokes 108, Broad 1)
Steve Smith drops an easy chance of Ben Stokes right after lunch
250 up for England in the 59th over
Alex Carey drops a tough chance as Stokes nicks again in the 2nd over after lunch
Stokes-Broad take the partnership beyond three figures
Stokes brings up his 150 off 197 balls
Drinks, Session 2: ENG 299/6 (Stokes 154, Broad 11)
300 up for England in the 72nd over
Josh Hazlewood gets rid of Stokes and Broad with Cummins dismissing Robinson in quick time
Starc cleans up Tongue as Australia beat England by 43 runs
Match End: England - 327 (81.3 Overs), Anderson (3 off 23)
Australia win by 43 runs and go 2-0 up in the Ashes
Session Breakdown Day 5:
First Session: 26 Overs | 129 Runs | 2 Wickets
Second Session: 24.3 Overs | 84 Runs | 4 Wickets
Pat Cummins (Australia Captain): "Yeah. Another wonderful game. Right down to the wire. Stokesy gave some jitters but the crowd loved it. Having a world-class player like Ben, makes any boundary look smaller. Good to have 200 on the board rather than 100 we had at Headingley.
A couple of things we learnt from Headingley. Just trying to stay patient. Spreading the fields and we were happy to give two in the over.
(On Bairstow's dismissal) I think Carey saw it happen on the previous balls. Don't pause it. Just grab it and hit the stumps. I don't think the crowd agrees with it but if it's in the laws, it's fair play.
Losing Nathan Lyon, the game was perfectly set up for him on day five. The batters stepped up on the first morning and the day before. I was not particularly happy about sending Lyon to bat. But he did an amazing job and those runs were crucial for us. We have Todd Murphy here. He did a fantastic job in India and he will be playing."
A couple of things we learnt from Headingley. Just trying to stay patient. Spreading the fields and we were happy to give two in the over.
(On Bairstow's dismissal) I think Carey saw it happen on the previous balls. Don't pause it. Just grab it and hit the stumps. I don't think the crowd agrees with it but if it's in the laws, it's fair play.
Losing Nathan Lyon, the game was perfectly set up for him on day five. The batters stepped up on the first morning and the day before. I was not particularly happy about sending Lyon to bat. But he did an amazing job and those runs were crucial for us. We have Todd Murphy here. He did a fantastic job in India and he will be playing."
Ben Stokes (England Captain): "Having experienced something similar that before, you are obviously able to look back at that and have a game plan. I had a lot to take in from the way I played at Headingley in this innings today. But unfortunately it wasn't enough today.
Yeah, it sort of got to the point where Australia changed their plans with which they were going at me, and I changed my approach as well. Tried to take some risks towards that side of the ground but it's a tough one to swallow, to get so close. Being involved in a fantastic game is awesome. We're 2-0 down. We have three games remaining in the series and we have won 3-0 against New Zealand and 3-0 against Pakistan so we know we can do it.
[On Bairstow dismissal] Look there are quite a lot of factors into that. For me, I asked the umpires if they called over, they said no. But the square leg umpire and the umpire made some movement towards had it been an over. End of the day it's out. If the shoe was on the other foot, I'd have to have a think around spirit of the game and things like that so. Look. It's happened, it's out, we've got to move on and see what is in front of us.
When you win the toss and bowl, you obviously look to restrict the team below 300 but the first morning on which we bowled, the lads got some criticism from a few people but the amount of times it went past the bat in both our bowling innings was frustrating, I'm not gonna lie but you know but the efforts and energies everyone has put in this week with the spell where the bowlers bowled short for hours on end. The efforts and energies can't be faulted. It's a tough moment when you have lost the Test match but a lot of positives from the week.
Reckless is an easy word to use. What me and Brendon have managed to do is is give everyone complete clarity about what they want to do. If you want to go in a certain way you have the backing of the dressing room to to that.
Josh Tongue has been brilliant. First game against Ireland, I didn't know him too well. but the way he has taken responsibility, he has a mighty fine engine on him, he has been great find for us."
Yeah, it sort of got to the point where Australia changed their plans with which they were going at me, and I changed my approach as well. Tried to take some risks towards that side of the ground but it's a tough one to swallow, to get so close. Being involved in a fantastic game is awesome. We're 2-0 down. We have three games remaining in the series and we have won 3-0 against New Zealand and 3-0 against Pakistan so we know we can do it.
[On Bairstow dismissal] Look there are quite a lot of factors into that. For me, I asked the umpires if they called over, they said no. But the square leg umpire and the umpire made some movement towards had it been an over. End of the day it's out. If the shoe was on the other foot, I'd have to have a think around spirit of the game and things like that so. Look. It's happened, it's out, we've got to move on and see what is in front of us.
When you win the toss and bowl, you obviously look to restrict the team below 300 but the first morning on which we bowled, the lads got some criticism from a few people but the amount of times it went past the bat in both our bowling innings was frustrating, I'm not gonna lie but you know but the efforts and energies everyone has put in this week with the spell where the bowlers bowled short for hours on end. The efforts and energies can't be faulted. It's a tough moment when you have lost the Test match but a lot of positives from the week.
Reckless is an easy word to use. What me and Brendon have managed to do is is give everyone complete clarity about what they want to do. If you want to go in a certain way you have the backing of the dressing room to to that.
Josh Tongue has been brilliant. First game against Ireland, I didn't know him too well. but the way he has taken responsibility, he has a mighty fine engine on him, he has been great find for us."
Steve Smith (Player of the Match): "It was a bit of a deja vu there. He is an incredible player and can pull out games on this ground, this country and this game. He is a freak. He was targeting the shorter boundary and I dropped him.
I didn't pick it up initially. Hard to pick it up at square of the wicket. I found it eventually but put it down. It's difficult to give these players chances. It was just an incredible knock.
It was important to put a decent score on the board. We were also looking to bowl first due to the conditions and some grass on the wicket. But a good game in the end. It was a bit two-paced. A bit of invariable bounce and not much on offer when the ball was pitched up. So bowling short balls were creating opportunities.
It wasn't easy with the pace of the wicket, especially after the ball got older. They play a dangerous brand and they like chasing. Also, there wasn't much for the bowlers. Nathan walked out to bat and gave us some crucial runs. Credit to him."
I didn't pick it up initially. Hard to pick it up at square of the wicket. I found it eventually but put it down. It's difficult to give these players chances. It was just an incredible knock.
It was important to put a decent score on the board. We were also looking to bowl first due to the conditions and some grass on the wicket. But a good game in the end. It was a bit two-paced. A bit of invariable bounce and not much on offer when the ball was pitched up. So bowling short balls were creating opportunities.
It wasn't easy with the pace of the wicket, especially after the ball got older. They play a dangerous brand and they like chasing. Also, there wasn't much for the bowlers. Nathan walked out to bat and gave us some crucial runs. Credit to him."
Player of the Match: Steve Smith
8:41 PM IST, 4:11 PM Local time: Australia go 2-0 up in the Ashes series wrapping a brilliant win at Lord's in the 2nd Test by 43 runs! England found themselves at 243/6 at lunch with Ben Stokes still out in the middle batting at 108.
He took on the bowlers bowling from the nursery end smashing 9 sixes and nine fours (none of the fours coming in the 2nd session). It was an Ashes record for most sixes in the innings as the England skipper finished at 155 in 214 deliveries after trying to go big against Josh Hazlewood bowling from the pavilion end.
England were 70 runs away when Stokes was dismissed and before that over everyone was expecting for a repeat of what happened at Headingley in 2019. Stuart Broad didn't last much longer afterwards and was dismissed by Hazlewood again.
Ollie Robinson failed miserably with the bat despite some high expectations from him and could only milk out a single throwing his wicket to Pat Cummins as all the fast bowlers continued bowling short.
The last wicket pair of Josh Tongue and James Anderson displayed some resistance with Tongue scoring 19 off 26 and Anderson 3 unbeaten in 23 balls adding 25 runs and surviving 7.1 overs.
All the three main seamers, Starc (3/79), Cummins (3/69) and Hazlewood (3/80) picked up three wickets each with Cameron Green getting the controversial wicket of Jonny Bairstow who was deemed out stumped off the tall allrounder's bowling.
A lot happened over the course of the Test match but at the end, Australia is the happier team going 2-0 up in the massive Ashes series.
He took on the bowlers bowling from the nursery end smashing 9 sixes and nine fours (none of the fours coming in the 2nd session). It was an Ashes record for most sixes in the innings as the England skipper finished at 155 in 214 deliveries after trying to go big against Josh Hazlewood bowling from the pavilion end.
England were 70 runs away when Stokes was dismissed and before that over everyone was expecting for a repeat of what happened at Headingley in 2019. Stuart Broad didn't last much longer afterwards and was dismissed by Hazlewood again.
Ollie Robinson failed miserably with the bat despite some high expectations from him and could only milk out a single throwing his wicket to Pat Cummins as all the fast bowlers continued bowling short.
The last wicket pair of Josh Tongue and James Anderson displayed some resistance with Tongue scoring 19 off 26 and Anderson 3 unbeaten in 23 balls adding 25 runs and surviving 7.1 overs.
All the three main seamers, Starc (3/79), Cummins (3/69) and Hazlewood (3/80) picked up three wickets each with Cameron Green getting the controversial wicket of Jonny Bairstow who was deemed out stumped off the tall allrounder's bowling.
A lot happened over the course of the Test match but at the end, Australia is the happier team going 2-0 up in the massive Ashes series.
That's it. Starc cleans up Tongue and with this, Australia take a 2-0 lead in the Ashes.
81.3 M Starc to J Tongue
W BOWLED HIM! EUREKA!! Finally Mitchell Starc bowls at the stumps and gets the reward! Australia win by 43 runs! What a victory!! Bowls full and straight on the leg stump. Tongue makes some room looking to hit across and misses. His leg stump is sent for a cartwheel!
81.2 M Starc to J Tongue
2 Poor bowling from Starc. Short and outside the leg stump. Tongue makes some space and smacks this over Starc's head into the long on region for a couple.
81.1 M Starc to J Anderson
1 Over the wicket, short and outside off. Anderson pushes in the off side and gets it past Labuschagne at silly point for a single.
OVER 81
England
324/9
Josh Tongue
17(24)
James Anderson
3(21)
Cameron Green
0-74(13.0)
80.6 C Green to J Anderson
1 Short of length on the off stump. Flicks this towards backward square for one.
80.5 C Green to J Tongue
1 Short and just outside off, Tongue defends off the backfoot jumping in the crease and takes a single in the off side.
80.4 C Green to J Tongue
0 Short ball on the stumps, Tongue moves across allowing the ball to pass over the stumps.
80.3 C Green to J Tongue
0 Green loses his line and length. Short and too wide outside leg. Tongue shuffles across looking to smack in the leg side but the ball is beyond him.
The target is less than 50 now. England require 49 runs to win.
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