Australia has taken a 2-0 lead in the five-match series after winning the second match of the Ashes Test series. Australia beat England by 43 runs at Lord's. Australia may have won this match, but this match was named after England captain Ben Stokes. Stokes scored a brilliant 155 in the second innings of this match and took his team close to victory. At one point it seemed that England's victory was certain, but everything changed as soon as he was dismissed. Josh Tongue and Anderson tried to continue the fight but were unsuccessful and their team was defeated in the end. However, Ben Stokes made many records in this match. First of all, know what happened in the match?
England won the toss and decided to bowl first. Australia scored 416 runs based on Steve Smith's 110 and David Warner's 66 runs. Marnus Labushen contributed 47 and Travis Head contributed 77 runs. Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue took three wickets each for England. Joe Root got two wickets. In response to this, the England team could only score 325 runs. Ben Duckett contributed 98, Jack Crowley 48, Ollie Pope 42, and Harry Brook contributed 50 runs. Mitchell Starc took three wickets for Australia. Hazlewood and Travis Head got two wickets each. Australia got a 91-run lead in the first innings.
Australia scored 279 runs in the second innings. Usman Khawaja contributed 77 and Steve Smith contributed 34 runs. Stuart Broad took four wickets for England. Josh Tongue and Oli Robinson got two wickets each. England had a target of 370 runs in the fourth innings, but this team was reduced to 327 runs and lost the match by 43 runs. Captain Ben Stokes scored 155 runs in England's second innings. At the same time, Ben Duckett contributed 83 runs. Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, and Josh Hazlewood took three wickets each for Australia. Green got a wicket.
Ben Stokes won hearts
In the fourth innings of this match, England had a target of 370 runs and England's four wickets had fallen for 45 runs. In such a situation, Captain Stokes came to bat. Opener Ben Duckett was frozen at the other end. Ben Stokes made a good partnership with him to bring England back into the match and the fourth day's play was over. From the start of the fifth day, both started batting well, and England's chances of winning started to increase. However, Duckett got out after scoring 83 runs. After this Johnny Bairstow came to bat. Stokes started building a partnership with him, but the Australian team went against the spirit of the game and ran Bairstow out. After this Stokes started playing differently.
He started playing big shots and collected 24 runs in one over from Green. However, he was dismissed when his team was 70 runs away from victory, and England eventually lost the match by 43 runs, but Stokes won hearts with his innings. He scored 155 runs in 214 balls with the help of nine fours and nine sixes. Earlier, he had won his team by playing such innings against Australia, but this time the result of the match did not go in his favor. However, when he returned after getting out, the opposition players were also clapping in his praise.
Stokes' record
Ben Stokes made a special record in this match. He is the first batsman in the world to score more than 150 runs in the fourth innings of a Test match batting at number six or below. He also became the fifth-highest scorer for England in the fourth innings. In this case, Bill Edrich is at the forefront with 219 runs. This was the first time since 2001 that a player had scored more than 150 runs in the fourth innings for England. Stokes scored 24 runs in one over of Green in this innings. With this, he became the second-highest run-scorer in an over in Tests for England. Harry Brook top-scored with 27 runs in an over.
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