Ashes; Name of a popular and traditional Test series between Australia and England. This test series is being held between Australia and England for many years. There are many stories behind this test series being named Ashes. However, whenever these two arch-rivals Australia and England face each other in this series, the cricket lovers of the two teams get busy discussing and criticizing.
Currently, this traditional series between England and Australia is being held. The first two matches of this series between the two teams have already been played. Where Cricket Australia won dramatically in both matches. They won the first match against England by just two wickets. Australia won the 2nd match by 43 runs to take a 2-0 lead in the series.
The first match of the series was played at Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. England captain Ben Stokes won the toss and decided to bat in that match. England planned to start with a good score and put Australia under run pressure. Root, Bairstow, and opener Crawley were the best performers with the bat for England in the first innings. To their credit, England declared their first innings at 393 runs.
In response to England's first innings, Australia was able to score 386 runs with Osman Khawaja's extraordinary batting. At the end of the first innings, they trailed by seven runs, but the victory came in their favor. Because in the 2nd innings, they restricted England to 273 runs. As a result, England put a chaseable total in front of them. Once again, Osman Khawaja's brilliant batting and in the end, Captain Cummins' brilliant finish, Australia won by two wickets.
The 2nd Test match between Australia and England was held at the traditional Lord's Cricket Stadium in England. England captain Ben Stokes won the toss in this match like the first match. But like in the first match, he didn't choose to bat in this match. England captain Ben Stokes decided to bowl at the beginning of this match. However, despite winning the toss, England didn't win this match!
Australia collected 416 runs batting first in the first innings of the 2nd match. Although the hero of the previous match didn't do well in the first innings of this match, Cricket Australia managed to score 400+ runs on the outstanding performance of Warner, Steven Smith, and Head. However, in response to Australia's first innings, England were all out for 325 runs. As a result, they trailed by 90 runs in the match.
Australia scored 279 runs in their 2nd innings, but because of the lead of 90 runs in the first innings, Australia set a target of 350+ runs. England failed to pass that target. Captain Ben Stokes played an important innings of 155 runs but it was enough for the team to win. As a result, losing by 43 runs, the host England is trailing by 2-0 in the historic series. Will they be able to bounce back in the next matches?