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Australia defeated England in the second Test by 43 runs at Lord’s in London to take a 2-0 lead in the ongoing Ashes series. When England captain Ben Stokes was at bat, the home team was doing well. However, the Three Lions were swept out immediately after Stokes fell after a brilliant 155. Josh Tongue and James Anderson, England’s penultimate tandem. Though, contributed 25 runs for the final wicket to postpone the inevitable for a time.
Stokes evoked the memories of his 2019 Headingley knock at Lord’s as he reached his hundred with three back-to-back sixes off Cameron Green. Stokes turned on the heat in the game after Jonny Bairstow’s controversial run-out on the final day and tore into the Australian attack. Stokes was on 62 off 126 balls when Bairstow departed and began the onslaught one over later with three fours off Green’s over.
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The England skipper again targeted Green in his next over as well and smoked him for first-ball four before hitting three consecutive sixes third ball onwards. Stokes took 22 off the over and reached his 100 as well, his 13th in the Tests. Apart from him, Ben Duckett scored 83 and was the first to fall on the final day on a team score of 177 after. England started with 114/4 on the board from day 4.
Stuart Broad, who scored 11, gave good support to Stokes as the duo added 108 runs for the seventh wicket. When Stokes’ departure, Cummins and Hazlewood took a wicket each to finish on three apiece. Apart from them, Mitchell Starc also chipped in with three wickets and Cameron Green took one.
Australia were always ahead in the Test after being asked to bat on day 1 on a green Lord’s wicket. Steve Smith scored 110 as Aussie amassed 416 in their first innings before bowling England out for 325.
England although, came back strongly in the second innings and bowled out visitors for 279 and set themselves a target of 371. Australia, despite Stokes’ heroics on the final day, stayed in the game, thanks to four quicks wickets on day 4 and two on the final day.
With the third Test set to begin on July 6, Australia are currently well placed for their first Ashes victory in England in over two decades.
Australia defeats Ben Stokes and England to make it 2-0 in the Ashes
Ben Stokes had one of the greatest fourth innings efforts in history, but it wasn’t enough to prevent Australia from taking a 2-0 series lead at Lord’s on Sunday.
In a thrilling day of Test match cricket at Lord’s, Australia needed a Herculean bowling effort to stop a rampaging Ben Stokes without Nathan Lyon. England captain was in excellent form, unleashing his aggressive attitude when stuck with the tail and attacking the Australian bowling attack. When it appeared like England might lose the game.
A century stand with Stuart Broad saw Stokes bludgeon the Aussie attack with disdain, picking and choosing the short boundaries to push England closer to the target. But Stokes’ dismissal on 155, with England 70 runs away signalled the end of the fight. The rest of the line-up hung around for a while. But Starc sent Josh Tongue back with a searing yorker to hand Australia a memorable win and a 2-0 lead in the series after two Tests.
Marnus Labuschagne’s comeback
The century stand was shortly over after Stokes was declared leg before wicket off Mitchell Starc’s quick yorker. England appeared to be on track to send Australia into a frenzy when Josh Hazlewood struck. As Duckett attempted to move away from a short ball, the pacer struck him on the top-edge.
In the middle, Jonny Bairstow joined Stokes as England’s final established duo as the visitors continued to pelt them with short balls. Although, the wicket was unexpected, it happened when Bairstow strayed beyond the crease after receiving a delivery, allowing an alert Alex Carey to toss down the stumps and catch the England batter far short.
The bizarre dismissal was Stokes’ cue to tee off and the captain went into ultra-aggressive mode, taking on the short ball with relentless pull shits through mid-wicket.
In the 54th over, he smashed Cameron Green for three fours, all off pull shots. And treated him to another four followed by a hat-trick of sixes in his next over to reach his hundred in quite dramatic fashion. The subdued celebration from the skipper sent the message that there was work in plenty still to be done with more than 130 runs to chase down and only four wickets in the bank.
Ben Stokes questions Jonny Bairstow’s dismissal call
Ben Stokes, the captain of England, made it clear that he would not have preferred a win with the type of dismissal that resulted in his teammate’s exit. As the controversy surrounding Jonny Bairstow’s controversial dismissal call stole the show during Australia’s victory in the second Ashes Test at Lord’s.
Just before the lunch break on the final day, Bairstow got out in a bizarre manner when he wandered out of his crease after ducking a Cameron Green bouncer as Alex Carey stumped him out. Bairstow believed that he had secured his ground with the tap of his bat behind the crease but the Australians and the umpires thought otherwise.
While, Australia captain Pat Cummins had the option to withdraw the appeal, he did not, and the decision was instead referred to the third umpire, Marais Erasmus, who ruled Bairstow stumped out.
As spectators jeered the decision and taunted the tourists, Stokes, then on 62, launched a blistering assault on Australia’s bowlers.
He made a stunning 155 but could not prevent England falling to a 43-run defeat as Australia went 2-0 up in the five-match series.
Bairstow had been dismissed off the last ball of the over, with Stokes telling the BBC: “When is it justified that the umpires have called over?
“Is the onfield umpires making movement, is that enough to call over? I’m not sure.”
