Khawaja man of the match after heroics in epic

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By Zachary Gates

Damien McCartney

5:21am Jun 21, 2023

First Test teams

England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Moeen Ali, Ollie Robinson, Stuart Broad, James Anderson

Australia: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland, Josh Hazlewood

England won the flip and elected to bat.

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And that concludes the team's unrecorded sum of an astonishing Test match.

The unit volition beryllium backmost successful enactment to unrecorded blog the 2nd Ashes Test, to beryllium hosted by Lord's, from adjacent Wednesday.

Keep an oculus connected Wide World of Sports' website and societal media arsenic the squad wraps up this unthinkable Edgbaston Test!

Goodbye.

Seventy-two runs stood betwixt Pat Cummins and an improbable Australian triumph erstwhile the skipper strode to the mediate precocious connected time 5 of the Edgbaston Test.

And the tourists mislaid Alex Carey soon after, bringing Nathan Lyon to the crease.

But implicit the 60-odd minutes that ensued, Cummins and Lyon would harvester successful singular fashion, putting unneurotic a concern of 55 runs to assistance the visitors to an instantly legendary win.

This was ne'er successful doubt.

Usman Khawaja has taken retired antheral of the lucifer honours for his 141 and 65.

The seasoned opener scored his 15th Test period successful Australia's archetypal dig, earlier knocking disconnected a sizeable chunk of runs successful the chase.

This was the surreal infinitesimal Aussie skipper Pat Cummins completed a two-wicket triumph for his side.

PAT CUMMIINS, YOU CHAMPION!

The Aussie skipper guides an Ollie Robinson shot down to 3rd man, Harry Brook makes a repast of his fielding and the shot goes for four, completing triumph for Australia!

REMARKABLE.

Cummins and Nathan Lyon enactment unneurotic a concern of 55 RUNS, lifting the Aussies to triumph by 2 wickets.

MORE TO COME.

Pat Cummins picks up a azygous connected the past shot of a Stuart Broad over, ensuring helium remains connected onslaught and taking the required runs to conscionable THREE.

The English are up against it. They request 2 wickets.

Remarkable scenes.

The Aussies get down to azygous digits arsenic Nathan Lyon goes BANG!

The tailender whacks Stuart Broad for 4 implicit mid-on, taking the required runs to conscionable seven.

"What a shot!" Ricky Ponting says successful commentary.

"Ice successful his veins!"

England needs 2 wickets.

Pat Cummins prods to screen and the Aussies scurry done for a single, taking the required runs to 15.

England needs 2 wickets.

Maximum of 9.4 overs remaining.

"The astir melodramatic of Test matches, the astir melodramatic of days," Michael Atherton says successful commentary.

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