Welcome to news.com.au’s protection of day two of the third Ashes Test.
England is battling to match Australia’s first innings rating of 263 as wickets falls steadily at Headingley.
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A win is important for the Poms, who can’t afford to lose or draw one other match or Australia will retain the Ashes urn.
10.45pm – England tailender breaks Gilchrist’s document
What a begin to the second session.
After dropping two wickets simply earlier than lunch to the pull shot – and having former skipper Michael Vaughan tweeting his frustration – you may have forgiven England for a conservative strategy when play resumed.
But that is Mark Wood’s Test match.
The quick bowler, who took 5 wickets in Australia’s first innings, creamed the primary ball of the session from Mitchell Starc over midwicket.
Then he hit the second ball for 4. And the third for one more six.
Starc lastly pitched one up at that time just for Wood to step away and watch it narrowly miss his stumps.
The crowd was loving it and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than Australia’s lead was down below 100.
Wood added yet one more most within the subsequent over from Pat Cummins earlier than hitting a shot a mile within the air that Mitch Marsh was capable of get beneath and pocket.
Wood completed with 24 runs from eight deliveries – a short innings however a rating that bettered all however two of Australia’s batsmen and broke Adam Gilchrist’s document for the quickest innings of a rating of precisely 24. Niche stat, however a pleasant identify to knock off.
Ben Stokes switched gears after Wood’s departure as England began swinging at almost every thing and added 56 runs within the first 5 overs after lunch.
But it wasn’t a sustainable strategy. Stuart Broad (seven off eight balls) tried to get in on the act however was caught brilliantly on the boundary by Steve Smith on the boundary to depart England 9/199.
10.01pm — Massive morning for Australia
Chris Woakes has triggered lunch after he was caught behind for 10.
A brief ball from Mitchell Starc caught a feather edge and went via to Alex Carey for the best of catches.
It’s been an enormous session for Australia as they took 4/74 and England nonetheless path by 121 runs on the primary innings.
9.42pm — England slammed as Australia breaks Bazball
Has Australia simply killed Bazball?
Australia has simply nabbed its third wicket of the session, leaving England 6/131 as the massive photographs have been put away.
Moeen Ali was dismissed for a 46-ball 21 after top-edging a pull shot off Pat Cummins for his fourth wicket of the innings, throughout what’s been an ideal session for Australia.
All the discuss earlier than the Ashes was concerning the new strategy which has been revolutionising cricket however after two Tests of WTF moments from the Poms, which has seen them 2-0 down, the Bazball has stayed within the sheds.
Australia had a powerful morning, taking the wickets of Joe Root — with the second ball — and Jonny Bairstow for 12 as England have made simply 63 runs for the session.
England’s strategy has been noticably totally different on day two.
Having fallen in a gap with common wickets, England’s day two ways had been revealed to be probably the most defensive session of the collection from the hosts.
CricViz revealed that England had defended 41 per cent of deliveries within the session.
They have additionally scored at simply 2.7 runs per over on day two — the fifth lowest throughout a session within the Bazball Era. They’ve scored at 3.26 throughout their innings.
Meanwhile, Australia scored at 4 runs per over throughout their innings.
Former England captain Sir Alastair Cook on BBC Test Match Special stated: “Big responsibility for Ben Stokes and there hasn’t been much Bazball, he’s been careful. There’s definitely been a slight change in their method and credit to Australia for not letting England get away.”
Former Aussie fast Damien Fleming on SEN stated: “It’s SnoozeBall. Where’s the counter punch? Where’s the change in momentum?”
Ex-NZ skipper Jeremy Coney replied: “This is just snatched singles. BazBall is firmly back in the box. It’s been tucked right into the back of the drawer behind the socks.”
8.50pm — Ben Stokes couldn’t get any luckier
Ben Stokes has been saved by a matter of millimetres after he charged at Scott Boland.
Boland appeared to have trapped Stokes in entrance, just for umpire Kumar Dharmasena to present it not out.
Australia had no hesitation to ship it upstairs and had been proper to as it will have hit midway up center stump.
But the England captain was saved as a result of he charged down the wicket, which means it was pitching as an umpire’s name, saving the England captain.
8.30pm — Bairstow’s gone and England in hassle
England are up in opposition to it early on day two as Jonny Bairstow is again within the pavilion as properly.
Mitchell Starc caught, pushing the ball throughout Bairstow, who edged it to Steve Smith.
This has been a catastrophe for the hosts, falling to five/87 with Ben Stokes and Moeen Ali the final of the recognised batters on the crease.
Former England skipper Sir Alastair Cook stated on BBC Test Match Special: “Poor shot from Bairstow, he lost his shape and it’s another good catch from Australia. All I know is what I spoke about last night, Root and Bairstow were key.”
8.02pm — ‘What a start’: Australia strike early
It’s taken simply two balls for Australia to strike with Pat Cummins getting Joe Root caught within the slips by David Warner.
It’s an ideal begin for Australia, who now have England 4/68.
“What a start,” Kumar Sangakkara stated in commentary.
But over on BBC Test Match Special, Jonathan Agnew was removed from happy.
“That’s a horrific start for England. Nothing added,” he stated.
Australia lead by 195 and England are quickly working out of batters.
But Ben Stokes has come to the crease.
6.30pm — ‘Absolute monster’ proves Poms acquired it improper
England talked up its Bazball prospects and whereas they’ve been shut, the Poms have dropped each matches to the world champion Aussies because the game-changing ways failed the house aspect.
Now within the third Test and with England needing to grow to be simply the second group in Ashes historical past to come back again from 2-0 down, the aspect could have simply unlocked its not-so-secret weapon.
While England’s explosive batting had the world shaking in its boots, it was a return to some good outdated categorical tempo bowling on Mark Wood’s return that despatched a scare via the Aussies.
Wood saved the hosts’ Ashes hopes alive with the second quickest recorded spell of bowling in a Test in England.
His first spell of 4 overs had a quickest ball of 155.3km/hr.
Wood was on hearth and a Twitter consumer shared that 90 per cent of his balls had been over 150km/h, along with his slowest ball 146km/h within the four-over burst.
Fans had been loving what they noticed.
Shockingly, it got here after Wood was overlooked of the opening Test, whereas an elbow criticism noticed him miss the second Test.
The 33-year-old averaged 90.5 mph (145.6 km/h) whereas taking 5/34 in 11.4 overs and cleaned up the tail with a burst of 4/5 in 16 balls in what was the injury-blighted Durham fast’s first match this collection.
“I knew I had good rhythm, was bowling fast,” stated Wood. “That first spell in particular, that’s as good as I’ve felt at home in an England shirt.” Wood clocked a high velocity of 96.5 mph, however performed down recommendations he would possibly hit the magic 100 mph determine with a beneficial tailwind.
“No, I don’t think so, it would have to be a bloody strong wind.”
Originally revealed as Ashes third Test, day 2 stay: England tailender breaks Gilchrist’s document
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
