Ashes, 4th Test, Day 5, Australia vs England Live Cricket Updates: Play Resumes As England Bat For Survival vs AUS
Ashes, 4th Test, Day 5, Australia vs England Live Cricket Updates: Chasing a total of 388, England are three wickets down against Australiaon Day 5 of the ongoing fourth Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday.
Ashes, 4th Test, Day 5, Australia vs England Live Cricket Updates:Chasing a total of 388, England are three wickets down against Australia on Day 5 of the ongoing fourth Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday. Zak Crawley scored a fine 77 while Haseeb Hameed and Dawid Malan couldn't conjure much. Joe Root and Ben Stokes will be key if England are to avoid a forth successive defeat in the series. Earlier, Usman Khawaja scored his second century of the match to place Australia in a commanding position. The Pakistan-born Khawaja has been in imperious form in his comeback from a 30-month Test exile, hitting 137 in the first innings before adding an unbeaten 101 to break English hearts. His domineering 179-run partnership with youngster Cameron Green set up a late declaration and left a beleaguered England having to defy history with a formidable target of 388. (LIVE SCORECARD)
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No run.
Nice and full, around off. Root pushes it to cover.
Short of a length, outside off. Root leaves it alone with ease.
Full and on off. Pushed to cover.
Short of a length, on off. Root goes back and blocks it.
Length ball, outside off. Root gets forward to block it.
Cameron Green is getting some repairing work done on his shoe.
Back of a length, around off. Stokes looks to block but the ball rises a bit more than he expected. He takes his bottom half off in the end.
Full, on off. Pushed to mid off by Stokes.
Beaten! Fuller, outside off. Stokes gets forward to block it but his hands go wider. The ball zips past the outside edge.
Play and a miss! Short and outside off. Stokes goes back to cut it but misses.
SIX! All the way! Short ball, on middle and leg. Stokes rocks and pulls it nicely over the square leg fence.
Some news about the Ashes then. No, not from this game but for the next Test. Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the fifth Test as he has failed to recover from the side injury that ruled him out. Also, Sam Billings has been called up to join the English side after Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow got injured in this game. He drove 9 hours from Brisbane to reach Sydney and he was reportedly 90 minutes away from taking a flight back home!
Back of a length, on off. Stokes goes back and taps it to point.
Short of a length, outside off. Left alone by Root.
Full and on off. Pushed to mid off.
Full and on the pads. Root works it wide of deep square leg for a couple.
Again! Back of a length, on off. Root goes back to block it but gets hit near the box.
On a length, on off. Blocked out.
Nice and full, on off. Pushed down the ground by Stokes. The man from mid off gets across and keeps it to one.