In the first match of the ‘Ashes Series’ (Ashes Series AUS vs ENG, 2021) between England and Australia being played at the Gabba ground in Brisbane, Australia, the Australian team lost 3 wickets including David Warner (94) on Thursday. Due to this, he was not in a position to take a big lead against England, but Travis Head, the lower order batsman of the Australian cricket team, played with his fellow batsmen with great understanding and made a good partnership. .
Travis Head shared a 70-run partnership with Pat Cummins (12 runs) on the second day of the Brisbane Test match. Added 85 crucial runs for the 8th wicket with Mitchell Starc. Mitchell Starc scored 35 runs in this. Then, with Nathan Lyon, he added 29 runs for the 9th wicket. In this, Lion scored 15 runs. In the bowling, Ollie Robinson took 3 wickets for 58 runs for the England cricket team.
Mark Wood took 3 for 85 and Chris Woakes took 2 for 76 and Australia were all out in the first innings batting. In the meantime, England’s swashbuckling captain Joe Root’s tremendous record innings and David Malan’s excellent century partnership of 159 runs for the third wicket till the end of the third day’s play and not out. England batsmen gave a befitting reply to Australia.
England scored 220 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in the second innings of their batting on the third day of the first match of the Ashes Test series (Ashes Series AUS vs ENG 2021) being played at the Gabba ground against Australia in the match. appears to be coming.
Earlier, Travis Head’s bat also roared a lot in his first innings batting from Australia’s team. He played a brilliant innings of 152 runs in 148 balls. Australia scored 425 runs in their first innings to take a 278-run lead against England’s first innings target. Significantly, in front of the deadly bowling of Australia, the entire team of England was bundled out for just 147 runs. At the end of the third day’s play, England are still 58 runs behind Australia.
The only batsman to score more than 1000 runs in the current calendar year
England captain Joe Root, who is running in excellent form, thrashed Australia’s bowlers fiercely in the second innings of batting . In this innings of 86 runs, his 10 brilliant fours are also included. David Malan has also scored 80 runs in his second innings batting in 177 balls, which also includes 10 fours. At present, he is also unbeaten with his captain.
It is worth noting that captain Joe Root has scored the most runs for England in a calendar year. So far in 2021, he has scored 1541 runs and he has overtaken the record of 1481 runs made in 2002 by former England captain and batsman Michael Vaughan.
The history of cricket tells that apart from him, Joe Root also broke the record of 1474 runs by Steve Smith and 1462 runs by Virender Sehwag in a calendar year. It is worth noting that the top batsman on this matter is Mohammad Yousuf, former batsman of the Pakistan cricket team, who scored 1788 runs in 11 matches played in a calendar year in 2006, about 15 years ago today.
Yes, David Malan was troubled by Nathan Lyon’s lethal bowling on some occasions. Significantly, Lion is a great off-spinner and he is waiting for his 400th Test wicket. In the first match of the Ashes series, Australia team used 6 bowlers to rein in England in the third day match. But, the batsmen of England remembered Nani to the bowlers. No bowler proved as deadly as the first innings.
In England, both the openers Rory Burns (Rory Burns) 13 and Haseeb Hameed (Haseeb Hameed) 27 runs after the lunch were taken out to bat. When England captain Joe Root stepped into the crease holding the bat in the second session, England were on 61 runs for the loss of 2 wickets. England opener Rory Burns, who was dismissed on the first ball in the first innings of this match, was dismissed lbw by the on-field umpire in the first over of Australia’s deadly bowler Mitchell Starc, but DRS Baba He got support and got life support.
But since then he is unbeaten till now. But, in the bowling of the first over after lunch, he became a victim of the ball of Pat Cummins Captain Australia in the Australian captain. His ball went behind touching the bat of Rory Burns, which was caught by wicketkeeper Alex Carey. After this, England batsman Haseeb Hameed was run off the ball of Mitchell Starc.
Before the batting of England’s second innings, Travis Head extended his innings by 112 runs for Australia on the third day of the match. Then Australia were on 343 for 7 wickets. Travis added 82 runs with the lower order batsmen. Travis Head returned to the pavilion shortly before lunch after being hit by a fast delivery from Mark Wood.
– Vinay Kumar