AUS vs ENG Today's Match Expert Fantasy Tips & Player Stats, Ashes 2023

2nd Test • London

416 & 279/10 (101.5)

325 & 327/10 (81.3)

AUS won by 43 runs

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Expert Team 1

J Root

U Khawaja

Expert Team 2

J Root

N Lyon

Venue Details

Lord's, London

PitchGreen Pitch

Pace BowlingPace & Bounce

Batting ConditionAverage

Spin BowlingAverage

1st Innings

293Avg Runs

10Avg Wkts

2nd Innings

316Avg Runs

10Avg Wkts

3rd Innings

269Avg Runs

9Avg Wkts

4th Innings

152Avg Runs

7Avg Wkts

Fantasy Tips Exclusive

1

Usman Khawaja is an outstanding AUS player. His performance in the last test match against ENG was excellent. He smashed hundred in the first innings of the match.

2

Joe Root is in a terrific form. This ENG player has the ability to stay longer on the pitch and help the team with a good score. He slammed a hundred in the first innings.

3

Nathan Lyon is an AUS mystery spinner. His performance in the test is outstanding. The spinner picked 8 wickets in 2 innings in the last test match.

4

Pat Cummins performed really well in the last test match. He showcased his skills and acted like an all-rounder in the first test match. The skipper performed excellent with both bat and ball.

5

Hot Picks: Usman Khawaja, Joe Root

Safe Picks: Ben Stokes, Pat Cummins

Stay Aways: David Warner

Grand League Picks: Usman Khawaja, Nathan lyon

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Team Form (Last 5 Matches, Most recent first)

Team Form (Last 5 Matches)

ENG

L

W

L

W

W

AUS

W

W

D

W

L

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

Head To Head (Last 10 Matches)

ENG

2- 6

AUS

Team Comparison (Last 10 Matches)

10

Matches Played

10

7

Matches Won

6

154

Average Score

117

579/10

Highest Score

386/10

12/0

Lowest Score

152/10

Player of the Match Steven Smith

110(184) & 34(62)

Player of the Series Chris Woakes

AUS 1st

ENG 1st

AUS 2nd

ENG 2nd

Info

Australia 1st Innings

416/10 (100.4)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

66

88

8

1

75.00

b JC Tongue

17

70

2

0

24.29

b JC Tongue

Marnus Labuschagne

47

93

7

0

50.54

c J Bairstow b OE Robinson

110

184

15

0

59.78

c BM Duckett b JC Tongue

77

73

14

0

105.48

st J Bairstow b J Root

0

3

0

0

0.00

c J Anderson b J Root

22

43

2

0

51.16

lbw b S Broad

6

10

1

0

60.00

c J Bairstow b J Anderson

(C)

22

33

2

0

66.67

Not out

7

13

1

0

53.85

c JC Tongue b OE Robinson

4

6

1

0

66.67

c J Root b OE Robinson

Extras

38

(B: 12, LB: 14, NB: 12, W: 0)

TOTAL

(100.4 Ov, RR: 4.13)

416/10

53

1

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

20

5

53

1

2.65

1

23

4

99

1

4.30

1

24.4

3

100

3

4.05

6

22

3

98

3

4.45

1

3

1

21

0

7.00

3

8

1

19

2

2.38

0

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

b JC Tongue

1-73

23.1

b JC Tongue

2-96

29.5

Marnus Labuschagne

c J Bairstow b OE Robinson

3-198

54.2

st J Bairstow b J Root

4-316

74.2

c J Anderson b J Root

5-316

74.5

lbw b S Broad

6-351

84.5

c J Bairstow b J Anderson

7-358

87.3

c BM Duckett b JC Tongue

8-393

95.2

c JC Tongue b OE Robinson

9-408

98.4

c J Root b OE Robinson

10-416

100.4

England 1st Innings

325/10 (76.2)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

48

48

5

0

100.00

st A Carey b NM Lyon

98

134

9

0

73.13

c D Warner b J Hazlewood

42

63

4

0

66.67

c S Smith b C Green

10

19

0

0

52.63

c S Smith b M Starc

50

68

4

0

73.53

c P Cummins b M Starc

(C)

17

58

1

0

29.31

c C Green b M Starc

16

36

2

0

44.44

c P Cummins b J Hazlewood

12

24

1

0

50.00

lbw b T Head

9

10

1

0

90.00

c A Carey b T Head

1

4

0

0

25.00

c (sub MT Renshaw) b P Cummins

0

1

0

0

0.00

Not out

Extras

22

(B: 9, LB: 4, NB: 7, W: 2)

TOTAL

(76.2 Ov, RR: 4.26)

325/10

27

0

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

17

0

88

3

5.18

2

16.2

2

46

1

2.82

1

13

1

71

2

5.46

0

13

1

35

1

2.69

0

9

0

54

1

6.00

6

7

1

17

2

2.43

0

1

0

1

0

1.00

0

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

st A Carey b NM Lyon

1-91

17.5

c S Smith b C Green

2-188

38.1

c D Warner b J Hazlewood

3-208

42.2

c S Smith b M Starc

4-222

45.3

c C Green b M Starc

5-279

61.2

c P Cummins b M Starc

6-293

67.4

c P Cummins b J Hazlewood

7-311

72.2

c A Carey b T Head

8-324

75.1

lbw b T Head

9-325

75.5

c (sub MT Renshaw) b P Cummins

10-325

76.2

Australia 2nd Innings

279/10 (101.5)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

77

187

12

0

41.18

c (sub MJ Potts) b S Broad

25

76

2

0

32.89

lbw b JC Tongue

Marnus Labuschagne

30

51

5

0

58.82

c H Brook b J Anderson

34

62

5

0

54.84

c Z Crawley b JC Tongue

7

16

1

0

43.75

c J Root b S Broad

18

67

3

0

26.87

c BM Duckett b OE Robinson

21

73

3

0

28.77

c J Root b OE Robinson

15

40

1

1

37.50

Not out

(C)

11

29

2

0

37.93

c BM Duckett b S Broad

1

3

0

0

33.33

c J Root b B Stokes

4

13

1

0

30.77

c B Stokes b S Broad

Extras

36

(B: 14, LB: 9, NB: 6, W: 7)

TOTAL

(101.5 Ov, RR: 2.74)

279/10

35

1

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

19

4

64

1

3.37

0

24.5

8

65

4

2.62

1

20

4

53

2

2.65

3

26

11

48

2

1.85

2

12

1

26

1

2.17

6

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

lbw b JC Tongue

1-63

24.1

Marnus Labuschagne

c H Brook b J Anderson

2-123

40.1

c (sub MJ Potts) b S Broad

3-187

61.6

c Z Crawley b JC Tongue

4-190

62.4

c J Root b S Broad

5-197

67.3

c BM Duckett b OE Robinson

6-239

87.3

c J Root b OE Robinson

7-242

89.1

c BM Duckett b S Broad

8-261

95.2

c J Root b B Stokes

9-264

96.4

c B Stokes b S Broad

10-279

101.5

England 2nd Innings

327/10 (81.3)

Batters

R

B

4s

6s

SR

3

6

0

0

50.00

c A Carey b M Starc

83

112

9

0

74.11

c A Carey b J Hazlewood

3

10

0

0

30.00

b M Starc

18

35

2

0

51.43

c D Warner b P Cummins

4

3

1

0

133.33

b P Cummins

(C)

155

214

9

9

72.43

c A Carey b J Hazlewood

10

22

2

0

45.45

st A Carey b C Green

11

36

2

0

30.56

c C Green b J Hazlewood

1

6

0

0

16.67

c S Smith b P Cummins

19

26

1

0

73.08

b M Starc

3

23

0

0

13.04

Not out

Extras

17

(B: 0, LB: 3, NB: 4, W: 10)

TOTAL

(81.3 Ov, RR: 4.01)

327/10

26

9

Bowlers

O

M

R

W

ER

EXT

21.3

2

79

3

3.67

3

25

2

69

3

2.76

3

18

0

80

3

4.44

4

4

0

23

0

5.75

0

13

3

73

1

5.62

4

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

c A Carey b M Starc

1-9

2.1

b M Starc

2-13

4.2

c D Warner b P Cummins

3-41

12.2

b P Cummins

4-45

12.5

c A Carey b J Hazlewood

5-177

45.4

st A Carey b C Green

6-193

51.6

c A Carey b J Hazlewood

7-301

72.1

c S Smith b P Cummins

8-302

73.1

c C Green b J Hazlewood

9-302

74.2

b M Starc

10-327

81.3

Match Info

Date & Time

28 Jun, 03:30 PM IST

Venue

Lord's, London

Match

2nd Test,

Umpires

Ahsan Raza(Pakistan), Chris Gaffaney(New Zealand), Marais Erasmus(South Africa, TV)

Referee

Andy Pycroft(Zimbabwe)

Toss

England elected to bowl

2 3 0 0 0 0

Over 79

Runs: 5

1 0 0 0 0 0

Over 80

Runs: 1

4 2 0 0 1 1

Over 81

Runs: 8

1 2 W

Over 82

Runs: 3

All Overs

Player of the Match Steven Smith

110(184) & 34(62)

Player of the Series Chris Woakes

Commentary

Right so, that was an absolutely nerve wracking session of Test Match cricket on either side of Lunch and it's Australia who held their nerves to emerge victorious in the end. Ben Stokes played one of the greatest Test knocks ever and gave everyone major flashbacks of Headingley 2019 for a while there, but he couldn't repeat the miracle for a second time. A 2-0 lead is a massive advantage in an Ashes series and it's only Sir Don Bradman's Australia (1936-37) who could make a comeback from there in the history of Ashes Cricket! For now it's Soumarya Dutta, taking your leave on behalf of my co-commentator Maanas Upadhyay. See you soon!

Pat Cummins, Australia Captain- It was wonderful game of cricket and went right down to the wire! Stokesy gave us a bit of a heart attack there as he went hard at it on either side of lunch. We worked on a couple of things from that Headingley game and one of them was to stay patient! We didn't loose our cool even when we were being hit for those huge sixes earlier in the session. Regarding the Bairstow dismissal, I thought Carey did the right thing there and in my opinion that was fair play. Some people might disagree but they're entitled to their opinion! We lost Nathan Lyon and it was a big blow for us, but the rest of the bowlers stuck up for us and did phenomenally well. The batters did a great job too, under lights on day 1 and that gave us a major advantage. Lyon's injury seems to be pretty serious at the moment and we might as well loose him for the rest of the series, However, we do have Todd Murphy in the reserves and it will be a great opportunity for him to fill in.

Ben Stokes [England captain]: [On his innings in the fourth innings] Similar experience before, obviously you can look back and see things like that, game plan on how you want to do it, I did take things back from how I went about at Headingly into this innings but unfortunately, just wasn't enough today. It's got to a point, Australia changed the plans with how they wanted things with me, tried to take risks. Tough one to swallow but being involved in a fantastic game is awesome, we're two nil down, but there's there more to go and we've done it against New Zealand, 3-0 and Pakistan, 3-0, we know we can do it. [About Bairstow's dismissal] There's a quite a lot of factors to take into that, got called over from umpire, end of the day it's out and I think if the shoe was on the other foot, we would've thought about with the spirit of the game like that, just got to move on, it's given out. [On first innings bowling] When you win the toss, and you bowl, you look to restrict below 300, we got a bit of criticism from people but we went past the bat plenty of times and it was frustrating, not going to lie. But, the effort and energies has been amazing, it's a tough one when you lose a test match but there's a lot of positives. [On their first innings batting] Reckless is easy word to use, what we've done in the dressing room is we've given clarity to each individual on how to go out and play, the message was clear. [About Josh Tongue] Tongue has been brilliant, first game against Netherlands, didn't knew very well but he's an exciting prospect, he has a role in the team but he runs and bowls for long, he's a great find for us and hopefully has an amazing future for England. It's a quick turnaround to Leeds, but as a I said, what we're think about is 3-2.

Steve Smith is the Player of the Match! Here's what he has to say: [About Ben Stokes' innings] He is a freak, there's a bit of a Deja vu from that Headingly game, the way he went about it, pretty much targeting one side, down the hill, it was the first shot he hit from the far end that he got out. [On the Stokes' spilled catch] There was an opportunity, I spilled it, was feeling for a bit there but he's a freak, unbelievable player. I didn't pick it up initially, it's quite hard when is going like that and I put it down, it's difficult giving lives for a guy like that, the way he plays and we've seen innumerous times and fortunately hit one out the chimney, incredible knock. [About his first innings hundred] It was important to put decent total on the board, we wanted to bowl on day 1, it helped us in the end putting up that kind of a total. It was a bit two paced, bounce mostly, wasn't easy and wasn't great deal on offer when you pitch it up and it was easy to get runs and was presenting wicket taking opportunities. Wasn't easy with the pace and bounce as the ball got older, try and build as many runs as you could. England play dangerous brand, and with not much from the surface, we wanted to get as many as possible and Nathan got us crucial runs.

Match Summary
1st Innings
Australia 416 all out | England 325 all out
Second innings
Australia 279 all out | England 327 all out

Session Summary - 24.3 overs | Runs 84 | Wickets 4 | RPO 3.45

Right so, we've had an incredibly exhilarating session of Test match cricket here at the HOME OF CRICKET and Australia have prevailed over England in the end. They clinched this really hard fought game by 43 runs and managed to go 2-0 up in the series. It wasn't so easy for them earlier in the session though as Ben Stokes and Stuart Broad gave them a major scare.

Ben Stokes began the session in T20 mode as he hammered Hazlewood for two big sixes of the very first over. What followed was a prolonged period of play where Australia kept going with the short ball tactic to both Stokes and Broad, only to be whacked all over the park by the former. To make things worst for them , Steve Smith grasped an easy chance of Ben Stokes of the very first over of the session. They did change their strategy after the drinks break and started bowling wide outside the off stump to cut down on the scoring rate.

It paid dividends as a tiring Ben Stokes tried to go over the off side and ended up top edging one which was safely pouched by Alex Carey. The England captain had given every one present at Lords today a major Deja Vu moment of Headingley 2019, where he chased down 358. However, it was not to be for him this time as he perished and it led to the tail crumbling soon after him. Broad and Robinson were caught out hooking against the short ball and all of a sudden England became 302/9 from 301/6 in a span of 3 overs.

The last pair between Josh Tongue and Jimmy Anderson were battered and bruised but they managed to frustrate the Aussies for a while. The duo put on 25 for the last wicket before Starc cleaned Tongue up and won the game for Australia!

It was a long hard grind for Australia, but they will be remarkably proud of their seamers who took all the 10 wickets in the absence of Nathan Lyon, on a surface that had something in offer for the spinners going into the final day. Spare of thought for Ben Stokes, who played one of the all time great knocks but didn't manage to see his side home. Australia might have taken the all important lead, but once again, it's Test Cricket, that has emerged victorious here at Lords. This ASHES series is turning out to be one of the greatest ever.

AUSTRALIA WIN BY 43 runs and they go 2-0 up in the Ashes!

81.3 Mitchell Starc to Josh Tongue, OUT! BOWLED 'IM! Done and dusted at Lords and Australia go 2-0 up in the series! Tongue's resistance come to an end! Full and on the leg stump line, Tongue has backed away and in the end, has to reach out for it. Fails to get any bat on it and the leg stump is sent cartwheeling! Was moving all around his crease and it just needed a full and straight delivery to send him packing. It is Starc who delivers the decisive blow and Tongue loses his leg stump!

Josh Tongue b Mitchell Starc 19 (26b 1x4 0x6)

81.2 Mitchell Starc to Josh Tongue, short of a length and on the body, Tongue backs away and slaps it over Starc's head. The batters return for a couple as Cummins chases it down.

81.1 Mitchell Starc to James Anderson, short of a length and outside off, Anderson gets onto his toes and opens the face of the bat to push it just past the silly point fielder for a single.

This last pair have put on 20 invaluable runs now in the past 8 overs and suddenly the target is down to below 50 now. Australia decided not to take the new ball in that over. Will they take it from here?