Australia dominate as lead extends to 362
Day 3 Australia tour of England and Ireland, 2nd Investec Test: England v Australia at Lord’s, Jul 16-20, 2015 being played at Lord’s, London.
Australia tour of England and Ireland, 2nd Investec Test: England v Australia at Lord’s, Jul 16-20, 2015
Australia 566/8d CJL Rogers 173 off 300 28 fours, SPD Smith 215 off 346, 25 fours and 1 six, SCFJ Broad 83-4, JE Root 55-2, 108-0 26 overs, DA Warner 60 off 84, 10 fours, CJL Rogers 44 off 72, 5 fours, SCJ Broad 10-0, James Anderson 21-0/ Joe Root 9-0
England 312 (90.1 ov) AN Cook 21 off 85, 3 fours, Ben Stokes 38 off 50, 5 fours and 1 six. Mitchell Johnson 53-3, JR Hazelwood 568-3
Australia lead by 362 runs with 10 wickets remaining.
On Day 2 Australia piled up a huge total with SPD Smith 215 off 346 and Chris Rogers 172 off 300 and demolished England’s top order to 85-4 on the second day of Ashes series at Lord’s. Mitchell Johnson took two wickets in seven balls, as England lost 4 wickets for 30 runs.
It took 77 years since an Australia batsman has made a double-century at Lord’s. The last batsman to do this before Smith’s 215 in the first innings was Bill Brown, who scored 206 not-out in 1938. Don Bradman is the only other Australian double centurion at Lord’s. Two
Australian batsmen who faced 300-plus balls each this innings – Rogers and Smith. There was only one other instance of this happening since 2001. In the 15 years before that, between 1985 and 2000, there were seven instances of two Australian batsmen facing 300-plus each in the same innings.
Michael Clarke declined to enforce the follow-on after England were dismissed for 312 on the third afternoon of the second Investec Ashes Test at Lord’s, with a deficit of 254 runs. Australians claimed the remaining three wickets in 7.1 overs for the addition of only 27 runs, after the tea break. Alastair Cook who frustrated Australia first during a 145-run stand with Stokes and then as part of a 56-run association with Ali, fell for 96 and denied his 28th test century, late in the second session and left Moeen Ali with the tail who fell for 39 in the third over of the session when he failed to get bat on a Hazlewood delivery that curved in and struck the pad dead in front. Ali asked for a review but it was futile, the ball crashing into the middle of middle stump. Hazlewood struck again in his next over when he nipped one back in and bowled Mark Wood for 4. Mitchell Johnson, whose third and final wicket was that of Stuart Broad, who edged to the substitute fielder Shaun Marsh at slip for 21. James Anderson was the not out batsman on 6. Warner 60 and Chris Rogers 44 took Australia to 108 for 0, a lead of 362 runs with 10 wickets remaining.