Stumps, Day 4: England 258 (Burns 53, Bairstow 52; Hazlewood 3/58, Cummins 3/61, Lyon 3/68) and 96/4 (Burns 29, Denly 26; Cummins 2/16, Siddle 2/19) lead Australia 250 (Smith 92, Khawaja 36; Broad 4/64, Woakes 3/61) by 104 runs.
Stumps, Day 3: England 258 (Burns 53, Bairstow 52; Hazlewood 3/58, Cummins 3/61, Lyon 3/68) lead Australia 80/4 (Khawaja 36; Broad 2/26) by 178 runs.
Stumps, Day 2: England 258 (Burns 53, Bairstow 52; Hazlewood 3/58) lead Australia 30/1 by 28 runs.
Day 1 at Lord's was washed out without a toss. England now have four days to draw level, and more rain is already predicted.
The second Test of the 2019 Ashes will commence on August 14 at Lord’s, London.
Australia’s win-loss ratio of 2.428 at Lord’s is the 6th-best for any side away from home with a 10-Test cut-off and the best with a 20-Test cut-off. They had lost just once in the 113-year span between 1896 and 2009.
Australia were unbeaten at Lord's between 1934 and 2009.
England lock horns with Australia in the second 2023 Ashes Test at Lord’s, with the hosts looking to bounce back after their narrow two-wicket defeat at Edgbaston. Pat Cummins’ side edged out England in a nail-biting thriller in Birmingham to take a 1-0 lead in the series, with the Australian skipper and Nathan Lyon sharing […]
Following Australia’s comprehensive nine-wicket victory in the opening Ashes Test at the Gabba, the attention now turns to Adelaide for the first pink-ball Test of the series. Pat Cummins’ side dominated in Brisbane right from the first delivery that saw Mitchell Starc knock over Rory Burns, and the hosts will look to continue that momentum […]
India have played 13 series against South Africa but have never whitewashed them. South Africa have whitewashed India once, 2-0 in India in 1999-00.