Australia Struggled, 80-4 in Second Ashes Test 2019, Jofra Archer Strikes
England's fast-bowling player, Debutant Jofra Archer scored with a wicket as Australia’s top order suffered and collapse at Lord's in Second Test of Ashes 2019.
Australia lost three wickets for
only 11-runs on the way to 80-4 when rain forced an early lunch on the third
day of the second test Ashes 2019. That left Australia 178-runs behind
England's first innings of 258.
Jofra Archer, on the ground where
he knocked down the Super Over that saw England seal a World Cup 2019 final win
over New Zealand last month, had good wicket figures for 18 runs in 13 overs.
But Australian star batsman Steve
Smith was still there on the 13th not out, with Matthew Wade undefeated at all.
Australia, 1-0 in the five-match
series after their 251-run win in the first Test at Edgbaston, resumed 30-1
after watching Stuart Broad fire David Warner at a low price for the third time
in so many innings in this series.
The game resumed under bleak
skies, the reflectors lit in full light, with difficult conditions to bat.
Cameron Bancroft was five out and
Usman Khawaja 18 was not after a lively opening spell by Archer, in place of
the injured James Anderson, England's all-time leader, on Thursday.
Khawaja hit two offsides in four
balls when the first change Chris Woakes fell short.
But England altered the morning
momentum with two wickets for no four-ball race, as Australia's 60-1 became
60-3.
Archer had his first test wicket
when he hit one again abruptly to have Bancroft lbw by 13.
Sussex's 24-year-old pacemaker
celebrations were put on hold when Bancroft reviewed it.
But replays showing that the ball
would have cut the top of the stomps meant that Aleem Dar, equaling Steve
Bucknor's record of 128 tests, saw his decision confirmed.
There were some boos when Smith,
a newcomer to hundreds of twins at Edgbaston in his comeback test after a
12-month ban on handling the ball, entered the bat.
I could only see how Woakes, with
England, finally throwing himself over the wicket at Khawaja, induced an outer
edge to the wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow who saw the left-hander caught by 36.
Australia was 71-4 when Broad had
Travis Head lbw for seven, although England had to revise Dar's original
verdict, which has no verdict, with technology indicating that the ball would
have crashed into the middle and left-hander's legs.
The All-rounder Ben Stokes
thought he had Wade lbw for a duck, but the Aussies Batsmen review revealed that
the ball had thrown out of the leg's stump.
