ENG vs AUS, 3rd Ashes Test, Day 2: Ben Stokes And Moeen Ali Revive England’s Ashes Bid

Ben Stokes plays a shot on Day 2 of the 3rd Ashes Test in between England and Australia at Headingley. © AFP England captain Ben Stokes’s vibrant 80, his most current rushing innings kept the hosts’ Ashes hopes alive prior to Moeen Ali struck two times in fast succession in the 3rd Test versus Australia at Headingley on Friday. Australia were 116-4 in their 2nd innings at stumps on the 2nd day, a lead of 142 runs, as they aimed to go 3-0 up in the five-match series and protect a very first Ashes project accomplishment in England because 2001. Mitchell Marsh, who had actually currently marked his very first Test in almost 4 years with a fantastic run-a-ball 118 in Australia’s first-innings 263, was 17 not out, with Travis Head unbeaten on 18. The set’s collaboration of 155 had actually been type in protecting a first-innings lead. Australia had actually been in command at 68-1 on Friday just for off-spinner Moeen to take 2 wickets for 2 runs in 9 balls while getting rid of Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith– 2 of the world’s leading three-ranked Test batsmen. England had actually plunged to 142-7 at lunch. All-rounder Stokes’s dazzling knock took England to 237 all out, a deficit of simply 26 runs, regardless of Australia captain Pat Cummins’s 6-91. Stokes likewise struck a blistering 155 in the 2nd Test at Lord’s recently as England suffered a 43-run defeat. Friday’s innings restored memories of Stokes’s Ashes heroics at Headingley 4 years back, when his remarkable unbeaten century directed England to an exceptional one-wicket win. Broad gets Warner once again Stuart Broad then got rid of David Warner for the 17th time in Tests, the left-hander captured in the slips for one. England, nevertheless, were a bowler light with paceman Ollie Robinson off the field since of a back convulsion and Australia were grinding the hosts down up until Moeen’s double strike. Labuschagne, dropped on 33 when under-fire wi
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