Australia 326 runs/6 wickets – 1st
Innings
The Ashes fever is back as the 3rd Ashes Test
Match starts today. Remember that Australia holds the lead 2-0 in the previous matches during the series, the Aussies will be
now eyeing towards to wrap up the series in the 3rd Test Match.
The 3rd match started today
and Australia having won the toss decided
to bat first. Australia made no change and maintained their winning combination
on the other hand England made 1 change
as they brought Tim Bresnan for Monty Panesar. England are already down and
out in the series and if they have to make a come-back then they will have to
bounce back heavily but the current performances clearly show the Dominace of the Home Team.
Australia opened up with
their regular openers David Warner and
Chris Rogers. The start didn’t look good at all as the Aussies Chris Rogers(11 runs) was dismissed earlier
at a total of 13 runs. He went back to the pavilion as a result of a Run Out done by James Anderson. Meanwhile Shane
Watson and Michael Clarke got a decent start but none of them could carry
on. Shane Watson was undone by Stuart Broad on 18 runs while the skipper
fell to Graeme Swann after scoring 24
runs. During these 3 wickets David
Warner kept his head and reached yet another Test 50. He scored 60 runs followed by 8 boundaries and a SIX!
Unfortunately neither could he enter a 3-figure score as he was dismissed
by Graeme Swann. It didn’t take any
longer for Stuart Broad to get rid
of the Aussie’s ODI skipper, George Bailey
for only 7 runs. Now Brad Haddin and Steve Smith stood on the
crease without any mode of surrender. Both of them put together an
excellent and much needed 124 runs partnership
taking their team to a reasonable score of 267 runs. All Good Things come to an end and so happened as the
partnership broke with the departure of Brad
Haddin who played sensibly for yet another 55 runs. He was upprooted form the crease on the delivery Ben Stokes.
There entered Mitchell Johnson who accompanied Steve Smith who reached to his wonderful
2nd Test hundred scoring 103*
runs(13 x fours,2 x sixes). He still stands on the pitch along with Mitchell
Johnson(39* runs) at the end of the day taking their side at a total of 326
runs/6 wickets. Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad got 2 wickets each while Ben
Stokes got 1 wicket.
Still 4 days of
cricket to come and let’s see what CRICKET brings us.
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