Australia’s team is in a strong position in the second Test of the Ashes series. At the end of the third day of the Lord’s Test, the visiting team took a lead of 221 runs. In response to Australia’s first-innings score of 416, England were bowled out for 325 in their first innings and the Kangaroos took a huge lead.
On the second day, the England batsmen retaliated by batting brilliantly, but the team’s batting was a complete flop on the third day. On the second ball of the day, Mitchell Starc got a big wicket by dismissing Ben Stokes. After that, Harry Brook also returned to the pavilion with a personal score of 50 runs. Johnny Bairstow also could not show amazing and became the victim of Hazlewood after scoring 16 runs. The team’s last 9 wickets fell for 137 runs. Mitchell Starc took 3 wickets for Australia, while Hazlewood and Travis Head took 2-2 wickets.
The team led by Pat Cummins has a score of 130 runs for 2 wickets in the second innings. The team would like to give England a big target to take a 2-0 lead. However, Australia’s path will not be easy as the team will be without the services of star off-spinner Nathan Lyon.
Nathan Lyon, playing his 100th Test, was injured while fielding on the second day of the game. He could hardly bowl in the second innings. In Lyon’s absence, Travis Head took over as the lead spinner in England’s first innings. Head took 2 wickets. He took the wickets of Stuart Broad and Ollie Robinson, allowing Australia to bowl out England for just 325 runs. Mitchell Starc believes that Head will not miss Lyon in the second innings as well.
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What did Mitchell Starc say?
He said that the biggest positive point for Australia was that they got England all out and took a lead. Starc said on the BBC, “I don’t know how the weather will be in the next few days, but the first thing is to take the lead. We have someone like Travis Head who can play spinner for us. If we seamers do our job, then Travis can do his job when needed.”
What did Starc say on Lord’s pitch
What target would Australia like to give to England?
Answering this question, Stark said that Pat Cummins and coach Andrew McDonald can answer it. The fast bowler said that the Lord’s pitch was slow this time. The fast bowler praised Steve Smith and Usman Khawaja for their batting in the Test series so far.
We are in a better position now – Mitchell Starc
During Mitchell Starc’s conversation with the BBC, he said, the positive thing for us was that we got England all out early and took the lead. Our top-order batsmen also batted well.
There was good bowling from England and the pressure was built but our batsmen stood their ground and faced it. We are in a better position now. If we had not bowled well on the third day, then there would have been a big partnership and the match could have gone in England’s favour as well.
Luck also supported us.
