England vs Australia, Ashes 2nd Test: Talking Points

Australia go 2-0 up in the Ashes series wrapping a brilliant win at Lord’s in the 2nd Test by 43 runs! England found themselves at 243/6 at lunch with Ben Stokes still out in the middle batting at 108. He took on the bowlers bowling from the nursery end smashing 9 huge sixes and nine fours (none of the fours coming in the 2nd session). It was an Ashes record for most sixes in the innings as the England skipper finished at 155 in 214 deliveries after trying to go big against Josh Hazlewood bowling from the pavilion end.

England was 70 runs away when Stokes was dismissed and before that was over everyone was expecting for a repeat of what happened at Headingley back in 2019. Stuart Broad didn’t last much longer afterwards and was dismissed by Hazlewood again. Despite some high expectations from him, Robinson failed miserably with the bat and could only milk out a single throwing his wicket to Pat Cummins as all the fast bowlers continued bowling short. The last wicket pair of Josh Tongue and James Anderson displayed some resistance with Tongue scoring 19 off 26 and Anderson 3 unbeaten in 23 balls adding 25 runs and surviving 7.1 overs.

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All the three main seamers, Starc (3/79), Cummins (3/69) and Hazlewood (3/80) picked up three wickets each with Cameron Green getting the controversial wicket of Jonny Bairstow who was deemed out stumped off the tall allrounder’s bowling. Plenty happened over the course of the Test match but at the end, Australia will go 2-0 up in the massive Ashes series.