LIVE: Controversial bowling tactics halt Australia

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By Emily Patterson

Chris De Silva

12:52am Jul 2, 2023

The Ashes 2nd Test teams

England XI: Ben Duckett, Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Josh Tongue, James Anderson.

Australia XI: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Alex Carey, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood.

England won the flip and elected to bowl. 

Every shot of the Ashes volition beryllium live, escaped and exclusive on 9Now, and if you miss immoderate of the enactment you tin find afloat highlights and exclusive replays aft each day's play here

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Josh Hazlewood perishes to a abbreviated shot and here's Nathan Lyon hobbling onto the hallowed turf of Lord's.

He's hardly capable to walk, this is perfectly heroic worldly from the Aussie spinner.

Pat Cummins is the latest to spell and it's different abbreviated shot that does it! It's Stuart Broad that strikes this time.

But there's unbelievable scenes present arsenic Nathan Lyon is afloat kitted up and hobbles down the Lord's stairs successful mentation for his innings.

"Amazing scenes considering we've seen him connected crutches," says Callum Ferguson connected Nine's coverage.

Australia's pb is astatine 354. If Lyon's going to springiness it a go, you wonderment if they're doubting whether they person enough.

Ben Stokes is perfectly livid with himself!

Stokes thought he'd taken the eighth wicket arsenic Pat Cummins was caught, but helium instantly looks backmost astatine the crease knowing helium might've overstepped and his fears are confirmed. 

England continues to persist with this bouncer barrage and it's harmless to accidental that it's not the astir fashionable tactic, adjacent though it's allowed them to regain immoderate power today.

The abbreviated pitched bowling continues to output results for England!

Two wickets successful a hurry arsenic Ollie Robinson removes some Alex Carey and Cam Green successful speedy succession.

England into the process now, pb is 333. Australia would emotion to get person to 400 if possible.

It'll beryllium absorbing to spot if Nathan Lyon bats arsenic well.

Cam Green is the latest Aussie to beryllium deed connected the head!

Ben Stokes bangs 1 successful halfway down from implicit the wicket and the shot whizzes past Green's backmost arsenic helium looks to hook it and he's deed connected the helmet.

The Aussie aesculapian unit is retired determination successful a hurry to cheque connected the young gun.

The players are backmost retired connected the crushed and we're acceptable to spell for the mediate session!

Ben Stokes has fixed himself the shot to commencement things off.

The archetypal league is successful the books and this lucifer is inactive finely placed.

Australia looked to beryllium moving distant with it successful the archetypal fractional of the league erstwhile Usman Khawaja and Steve Smith continued their overnight partnership, earlier England resorted to immoderate bully aged fashioned bodyline tactics.

The bouncer barrage brought on 3 speedy wickets and besides wholly dried up Australia's tally rate, and arsenic a result, England has fixed themselves a sniff.

They chased down 378 against India successful the 4th innings of a Test successful the Bazball epoch and volition backmost themselves to mow down thing nether 400.

Still immoderate enactment to bash for the Aussies to enactment this 1 to bed. Big league coming up aft lunch.

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