-Vinay Kumar
The second match of the 5-match Test series being played between Australia and England (Australia vs England Ashes Cricket Series 2021-2022) continues at the Adelaide Oval ground (Adelaide Oval AUS vs ENG 2021). This second Test match of the series is being played in the Pink Ball Test Match day-night format. By the end of 3 days’ play, Australia seems to be tightening its grip in this match.
In this match, Australia, batting first, scored 473 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in their first innings and the innings was declared. In response, the England team came out to bat for their first innings and were all out for 236 runs in 84.1 overs. England’s team, trailing 1-0 in this latest series, had a poor start in this match as well and both their openers were dismissed for only 12 runs.
After that, on the third day of the match, the pair of England captain Joe Root and David Malan handled the crumbling innings. Root made 62 and Malan played a fine innings of 80 runs. For the third wicket, both shared a partnership of 138 runs. On the pace of the England team going to return to the match, Australia’s deadly bowlers Cameron Green, Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Starc put a break with their sharp bowling and scored only 2 runs for 150 runs. England team playing on the loss of wicket was all out within the next 86 runs.
Mitchell Starc becomes first bowler to do ‘this’
Australia’s deadly fast bowler Mitchell Starc took the maximum 4 wickets for his team by giving just 37 runs in the bowling of 16.1 overs. With this ‘4 Wickets Hall Mitchell Starc’, Mitchell Starc made a big record of ‘Pink Ball Test Cricket’. He hit a half-century of wickets in Test cricket in Day-Night format and became the first bowler in the world.
Significantly, this is the 16th pink ball match being played in the history of Test cricket. History is witnessing that out of the total 16 Pink Ball Test matches played so far, 9 matches have been played in the grounds of Australia. Mitchell Starc completed the half-century of wickets in pink ball Test cricket in 17 innings of 9 matches played in his career. Australia’s deadly fast bowler Josh Hazlewood, out of this latest match due to injury, is at number two in this list. He has taken 32 wickets in 13 innings.
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Nathan Lyon equals Josh
Australia’s off-spinner Nathan Lyon also took 3 wickets against England in the Adelaide ground, Josh Hazlewood (Josh Hazlewood) in the matter of getting the most wickets in the Pink Ball Test (Pink Ball Test Match AUS vs ENG, 2021). Hazlewood). He has taken 32 wickets in 16 innings of pink ball cricket played so far. In this latest match, Mitchell Starc took the wickets of Rory Burns (4 runs), David Malan (80 runs), Jos Buttler (0 runs) and Stuart Broad (9 runs). Nathan Lyon dismissed Olly Pope for 5 runs, Chris Woakes on 24 and Ollie Robinson for 0.
The name of Pat Cummins Captain Australia ASHES, the regular captain of the Australia cricket team, who could not play in this second test match of the series due to contact with a corona infected person, is on the third position in this list. Cummins has taken 26 wickets in 10 innings of 5 pink ball cricket matches played so far in his career. In this list, Pakistan cricket team bowler Yasir Shah is present with 18 wickets, James Anderson with 16 wickets and Trent Boult with 16 wickets.
Australia’s record in pink ball cricket is amazing
Significantly, Australia’s record in Pink Ball Test Cricket Day-Night Test Cricket is tremendous. No one has been able to beat Australia in this so far. History tells that Australia has played 6 out of its 9 Pink Ball Test matches at the Adelaide Oval Pink Ball Test Match. Earlier, Australia and India met for the last time in the Pink Ball Test match at the Adelaide ground itself, in which Australia won by 9 wickets. You would hardly have forgotten that match, in which India’s ten wickets in ten wickets fell for just 36 runs in the second innings of that match. England (England vs India Pink Ball Test Match) played its last pink ball test match against India. In that match played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Motera, Ahmedabad, India had beaten the dust.