Welcome to news.com.au’s reside protection of the third day of the third Ashes Test from Headingley.
The match is on a knife’s edge going into day three as session for both group may swing the sport.
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At stumps on day two, Australia was 4/116 with Travis Head and Mitch Marsh once more needing to launch the rescue mission.
Australia lead by 142 however what rating shall be sufficient.
There is rain round early in response to The Met Office, but it surely’s solely a 50 per cent likelihood of rain within the first session, whereas thunderstorms are anticipated after play finishes.
6.30pm — Warner catastrophe isn’t any smiling matter
Aussie cricket legend Ian Healy has slammed opening batter David Warner after the veteran Aussie was as soon as once more dismissed by England fast Stuart Broad.
It was the seventeenth time Broad had claimed the wicket of Warner, the equal third most in Test cricket historical past.
But it wasn’t simply that he was dismissed for 1 by his outdated nemesis, it was the opener’s response to the dismissal.
Warner was smiling as he left the sector, which was a weird response when dismissed by a man who’s been residing lease free in your head for thus lengthy.
“It worries me,” Healy stated from the Nine studio at tea on day two.
“He’s smiling a little too much. I’m hopeful it’s not a smile and it just looks like a smile.
“He’s numb, he’s not really into the innings, his clarity in the mind wasn’t there to get 300. Australia have got to get 300 right now. He’s been the real warrior that leads us into those innings in the past, but he’s just been nowhere in this Test when we need to really add 300 at least to our lead of 29.”
Was the a sledge Warner heard that the stump mic didn’t seize? Maybe, but it surely’s a nasty search for a batter who’s hoping to retain his spot within the facet till the New Year’s Test, the place he hopes to retire.
That is wanting a good distance away in current occasions with Warner scoring simply 1099 runs at 28.17 because the 2020 Sydney Test, which incorporates his Boxing Day double hundred.
Healy contemplated if Warner, who has 141 runs at 23.50 on this collection, could not be capable of afford sticking true with the batter.
“Not only is Broad unsettling him, but worldwide, bowlers over the last two years have not had much trouble with him. His average is about 28 over the last couple of years in cricket and those numbers for a national team are probably not good enough,” Healy stated.
“So I worry that we can pick him again, even in the next Test in this series.”
Originally revealed as Ashes third Test, day three reside:
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
