Australia beat England in the first match of the Ashes series, after which Ben Stokes became the target of critics!

Photo Credit: aajtak

Let us tell you that Australia defeated England in the first thrilling match of the Ashes Series 2023. After this victory, England captain Ben Stokes remains the target of critics. Ben Stokes declared England's first innings at 393 for the loss of eight wickets on the first day of the first Test match played at Edgbaston and because of this, Ben Stokes is being criticized. The innings should not have been declared. And now Ben Stokes, answering this, told why he did this.

The first Test match played between Australia and England was very exciting, in this match Australia got a target of 281 runs to win. By the time Usman Khawaja was at the crease on the last day of the match, Australia's victory seemed certain, but Ben Stokes dismissed Khawaja and brought England back into the match. Still, England could not win as captain Pat Cummins scored an unbeaten 44 to give Australia a two-wicket victory.

Photo Credit: aajtak

* The reason given for declaring the innings:

Ben Stokes told after the match why he declared the innings on the first day Ben Stokes says that he wanted to put pressure on Australia. He said that he sees this as an opportunity to put pressure on Australia. After this, the English captain said that by declaring the innings on 390 runs, he wanted to give a message to Australia that he wanted to put them under pressure.

Benstock then said that if he had not declared, the match would not have had such an exciting ending. He said that he simply could not cross the victory line. After this, Ben Stokes said that many such things happen in a 5-day Test match, which if we think later, it seems that if this had happened, we would have won the match, but he does not want to see things in this way.

Photo Credit: zee news

* Match was like this:

In response to England's first innings, Australia scored 386 runs in their first innings. For him, Khawaja's bat was running about it. Khawaja had scored 141 runs. After this England was bundled out for 273 in their second innings and after this Australia was given a target of 281 runs, Khawaja scored a total of 65 runs for Australia during the second innings.