-Vinay Kumar
Australia’s team, which won by 9 wickets against England in the first Test of the Ashes series (AUS vs ENG Ashes Cricket Series 2021), started well in the second match as well. However, his opener David Warner also fell victim to Nervous 90s in the second consecutive match in this series. He looked very disappointed while returning to the pavilion. While returning to the pavilion, he gave his gloves to a child.
‘Cricket Australia’ has shared the video of this scene on social media. It is clearly visible in the video that the little child is not bloated with joy after getting the gloves of his star cricketer David Warner.
It is worth noting that the second match of the Ashes Test Series started today on 16 December at the Oval Ground in Adelaide (Adelaide Oval Test Match Ashes Cricket Series 2021). This match is pink ball cricket i.e. Day-Night Test Match AUS vs ENG.
89 overs were played on the first day. Australia’s team faced 89 overs and scored 221 runs for the loss of 2 wickets in the first day’s batting. At the end of the day’s play, Marnus Labuschagne was on 95 and Steve Smith remained at the crease after scoring 18 runs. Remind that the team’s regular captain Pat Cummins (Pat Cummins Captain Australia ASHES CRICKET SERIES, 2021) is not playing in this match. Steve Smith is captaining Australia in this match.
Talking about this latest test match, Australia won the toss and decided to bat first. Australian openers Marcus Harris and David Warner opened the innings. Australia got off to a bad start. Australia’s first wicket fell on the score of 4 runs. England’s deadly bowler Stuart Broad caught Marcus Harris at the hands of Jos Butler.
Day = made#Ashes pic.twitter.com/3srONbrDky
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 16, 2021
Jos Buttler made a brilliant jump to the right and took Marcus’s catch. ‘Cricket Australia’ has also shared the spectacular scene of Jos Buttler taking the catch on social media.
INSANE! Buttler pulls in an all-timer behind the stumps! #Ashes pic.twitter.com/v96UgK42ce
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 16, 2021
Marcus Harris went on for 3 runs. After this, opener David Warner along with Marnus Labuschagne put together an excellent partnership of 172 runs for the second wicket. When David Warner was on the score of 95, he was caught by Stuart Broad off Ben Stokes and sent to the Bijjat pavilion. David Warner misses out on a century for 5. After him, Steve Smith, the captain of the Australia team, holding the bat, entered the field.
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Earlier, returning bowlers Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad kept the batting of Australia’s batters under pressure in the first session of the match. Opener David Warner had scored 20 runs in 72 balls till lunch while facing England’s fast attack and Marnus Labuschagne had scored 16 runs off 54 balls. Meanwhile, Warner also got life in the eighth over of the match. Till that time he had scored only 1 run off 28 balls.
In the pre-match dramatic style, 3 hours before the toss, ‘Cricket Australia’ informed that captain Pat Cummins is not playing. It was told that Cummins had come in close contact with a COVID positive person during dinner last night, ie Wednesday night. However, vi was found negative in his test report.
Significantly, Steve Smith is the third captain for the Australia cricket team in the last 3 Test matches played so far. Remind you that during the Cape Town Test in South Africa in 2018 (South Africa vs Australia Test Series 2018 Capetown), Steve Smith lost the captaincy and had to face a 2-year ban in the ball-tampering case.
It is worth noting that Tim Paine recently lost his captaincy in a serious case of sending obscene messages to a female colleague. After that the team’s deadly fast bowler Pat Cummins Captain Australia ASHES SERIES was given the command of the team. Under his captaincy, Australia won the first match of this fresh series by 9 wickets.