London: At the end of the second day of the second Test match of the Ashes series, England scored 278 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. Captain Ben Stokes (17) and Harry Brook (47) are present for England. At the same time, the last wicket of the day for England fell in the form of Joe Root. In this way, Australia’s team is still 138 runs ahead of England on the basis of first innings. Australia, batting first in the match, scored a century of 416 runs by Steve Smith. Australia scored 339 runs for 5 wickets on the first day of the game. Although the England bowlers made a strong comeback on the second day, but despite this, Steve Smith’s century innings helped the Australian team to reach the score of 416 runs. Former Australia captain Steve Smith scored his 32nd Test century. He has equaled former veteran batsman Steve Waugh. Apart from Smith, Travis Head contributed 77, David Warner 66 and Marnus Labushen 47 in the Australian innings.
Ben Duckett misses out on a century
Ben Duckett and Jack Crowley opened the innings for England on the second day of the game. Both batting carefully gave the team a solid start. There was an excellent partnership of 91 runs for the first wicket between Crowley and Duckett. However, during this, Crowley was dismissed just two runs before his half-century. He played an inning of 48 runs.
Ben Duckett misses out on a century
Ben Duckett and Jack Crowley opened the innings for England on the second day of the game. Both batting carefully gave the team a solid start. There was an excellent partnership of 91 runs for the first wicket between Crowley and Duckett. However, during this, Crowley was dismissed just two runs before his half-century. He played an inning of 48 runs.
After Crowley, Duckett stayed at the crease and slowly moved towards the century but unfortunately he could not reach his century by just two runs. Duckett had the best support of Ollie Pope during this period. Ollie Pope also played an innings of 42 runs for England.
6 wickets left for England
The England team scored 278 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in the last session of the second day’s play. England still have 6 wickets left. During this innings for Australia, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood and Cameron Green took one wicket each.