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Ashes 2023 Highlights ENG vs AUS 5th Test Day 2: Australia Bundle Out For 295 at Stumps
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Ashes 2023 AUS vs ENG Highlights: Australia led England by 12 runs at the end of a tense and fluctuating second day to leave the final Ashes Test at The Oval on a knife-edge on Friday. Steve Smith’s patient 71 was the backbone of Australia’s 295 in reply to England’s 283 and a ninth-wicket partnership of 49 between Pat Cummins and Todd Murphy edged the touring side ahead. Australia, 2-1 up in the series and bidding to win the Ashes in England for the first time since 2001, were bowled out just before the close. The day has been an entertaining one. Things were dull until lunch. Stuart Broad lit things up
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Key Events- Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 288/9; Woakes Dismisses Murphy
- Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 284/8; Australia Picks Up Lead in First Innings
- Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 239/8; Woakes Takes Smith's Wicket
- Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 193/7; Run Out; Umpires go Upstairs to Check if Smith is Out
- Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 185/7; Tea Break; England in the Lead as Australia in Real Danger
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 295/10: Australia Struggle To Level Scores
The day has been an entertaining one. Things were dull until lunch. Stuart Broad lit things up with the dismissal of Marnus Labuschagne. Marnus was struggling all throughout the innings due to a lack of intent. The same goes for most Aussie batters. England will be the happier side.
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 295/10: Stokes with a Blinder as Root Picks His Second
Stokes takes yet another blinder as Root helps finish the Australian batting. lineup.
Australia 295: Pat Cummins 36(86) c. B Stokes b. J Root
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 288/9; Woakes Dismisses Murphy
Fantastic knock by Murphy as England finally get the breakthrough. Woakes kept it simple, just short of good length but Murphy missed it and is gone LBW.
Australia 288/9: Todd Murphy 34(39) LBW b. C Woakes
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 284/8; Australia Picks Up Lead in First Innings
Australia finally pick up the lead thanks to Murphy’s heroics. His 30 off 31 deliveries has come at a crucial stage where England looked to clean up the Australian batters.
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 273/8; Todd Murphy Goes Big
Todd Murphy with some answers to the short balls from Wood. The Aussies are now 10 runs from levelling England’s total.
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 239/8; Woakes Takes Smith's Wicket
Smith gets himself out in the most bizarre way as he pulls one back but mistimes the shot for an easy catch by Bairstow.
Australia 239/8: Steve Smith 71(123) c. J Bairstow b. C Woakes
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 234/7; Smith, Cummins Putting Up a Decent Partnership
Australia is putting up a small fight as Cummins and Smith are putting up a partnership. Smith will be looking to take most of the strike.
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 193/7; Run Out; Umpires go Upstairs to Check if Smith is Out
A tough call for Nitin Menon as Bairstow had already dislodged the bails but did not have the ball. Eventually, the right call was given as Australia get away by a fine margin.
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 185/7; Tea Break; England in the Lead as Australia in Real Danger
England will walk off the session as the happier bunch with 6 wickets in the session. Stokes’s side will look to clean up the rest of the tailenders.
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 185/7; Wood Bounces out Starc as Australia in Danger
Mark Wood uses his pace to finish Starc’s innings off. Short delivery which Starc found uncomfortable and Duckett grabbed the catch.
Australia: 185/7: Mitchell Starc 7(18) c. B Duckett b. M Wood
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 170/6; Root Dismisses Alex Carey
Root has come to the party as Carey could not resist the temptation to hit as he gave Stokes a basic catch. Starc comes in
Australia: 170/6: Alex Carey 10(23) c. B Stokes b. J Root
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 151/5; Anderson Dismisses Marsh
Anderson was brought into the attack and finally has luck on his side as he swung the ball inside, edged the bat and hit the stumps. Australia looks to be in real trouble.
Australia- 151/5; Mitchell Marsh 16(28) b. J Anderson
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 137/4; Mitch Marsh Smashes Broad for a Six
Mitch Marsh going against the run of play as he smashes Broad off for a six. Might be the intent that Australia were lacking in the first session.
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 127/4; Broad On Fire as he Dismisses Head
In only his second over after lunch, Broad picked the wicket of Travis Head. He used the out-swing which edged to Bairstow.
Australia- 127/4: Travis Head 4(5) c. J Bairstow b. S Broad
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 115/3; Broad Dismisses Khawaja; Reaches Milestone of 150 Ashes Wickets
Broad is at it again, he bowled it full and the swing led to Khawaja missing it completely. Khawaja burns a review for it as he is dismissed by LBW. Travis Head comes in.
Australia: 115/3: Usman Khawaja 47(157) lbw b. S Broad
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 115/2 Session Begins As Broad is Back Into the Attack
England will start the post-lunch session with Stuart Broad who is now bowling from the Vauxhall End.
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 115/2; Lunch: Khawaja Closing in On 50
England will be happy with the wicket of Labuschagne but Khawaja is looking dangerous. Australia will hope that both Khawaja and Smith will be able to set big scores.
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 104/2; Smith Going Aggressive And Wood Fighting Back
After Smith’s two consecutive boundaries off Anderson, Wood has been maintaining the aggression off the other end as England will be looking to pick more wickets.
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 91/2; Smith Walks In For Labuschagne
Smith walks in at Number 4 as England will look to put more pressure on the Aussies.
Ashes 2023 5th Test Day 2 Live Score: AUS- 91/2; Wood gets the Breakthrough As Labuschagne Departs
Joe Root with a screamer at first slip. Labuschagne nicked the ball and Bairstow completely missed it but Root came in with the assist as England got the breakthrough.
Australia 91/2: Marnus Labuschagne 9(82) c. J Root b. M Wood
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with the dismissal of Marnus Labuschagne. Marnus was struggling all throughout the innings due to a lack of intent. The same goes for most Aussie batters. England will be the happier side with the way things have turned out.On the last ball before the end of play, Jonny Bairstow threatened Marnus Labuschagne with a run-out similar to how the Englishman was dismissed himself by Alex Carey however, the Aussie batter was well within his crease.
Ricky Ponting while discussing the play on Day 1 was pelted with grapes and it would only go on to add more heat to the historic rivalry. As far as the on-field matters are concerned, Australia trail England by 222 runs ahead of Day 2.
Labuschagne and Usman Khawaja helped Pat Cummins’ side post a score of 61/1 at stumps after having restricted England to 283 runs. Cummins had won the toss and elected to bowl first, with the hosts suffering a total collapse as they were reeling at 73/3 before Harry Brook smashed 85 runs in 91 balls.
Ben Duckett had earlier scored 41 while Ali added 34 however, the rest of the batters struggled against Mitchell Starc and Co.
David Warner’s struggles continued as Australia came out to bat the opener managed to score just 24 runs as he fell prey to Chris Woakes. England have little more than pride to play for, and Ben Stokes’ side will be looking for early wickets on Day 2 to keep alive their hopes of levelling the series at 2-2.