LIVE: Stokes holes out after remarkable innings

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By Emily Patterson

Chris De Silva

12:21am Jul 3, 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. 

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Brilliant from Steve Smith!

Ollie Robinson takes connected a abbreviated shot from Pat Cummins and it flies down to Steve Smith astatine heavy quadrate limb and helium takes a fantastic catch.

Robinson gone for conscionable one, 69 required for England now. 

Australia has its man!

Ben Stokes looks to heave 1 into the limb broadside but lone succeeds successful apical edging it and Alex Carey snaps it up.

Josh Hazlewood with the breakthrough, his 2nd wicket of time five.

"What you person witnessed contiguous from Ben Stokes is thing different than magical," says Kevin Pietersen.

Stokes' enactment ends connected 155 and Ollie Robinson joins Stuart Broad astatine the crease. 70 to get for England.

The MCC has apologised aft a fig of Australian players were confronted successful the Lord's longroom heading into the luncheon break.

Here is the incidental successful question.

Incredible scenes astatine Lord's arsenic Ben Stokes nudges 1 into the disconnected broadside for a 2 and brings up his 150 disconnected 197 deliveries.

"It has been utterly absorbing and cricket of the highest order," says Andrew Strauss.

Just 75 to get for England now, 4 wickets successful hand. It's Stokes' 3rd people of 150 successful his 94-Test career.

Ben Stokes bunts Pat Cummins into the disconnected broadside for a azygous and equals his vocation precocious Ashes people of 135.

The past clip helium did that? Yes, that celebrated innings astatine Headingley successful 2019.

Still plentifulness of runs to play with for Australia though. 

The full required is into treble figures now.

Stuart Broad getting successful the enactment with immoderate runscoring himself arsenic well, he's up to 10 now.

Stokes connected 133. Australia worried.

Ben Stokes continues to mow down this people and there's immoderate existent tense looks successful the Aussie campy now.

Australia has continued to spell astatine the England skipper with the short-pitched bowling, and Ricky Ponting is livid.

"This is each incorrect from Australia, each wrong," helium says connected commentary.

"They've got to marque him deed the shot connected the disconnected side. If helium hits the shot implicit other screen for six, past truthful beryllium it."

Oh nary Steve Smith!

Ben Stokes has started the league successful a flurry by walloping Josh Hazlewood into the stands Stokes tries to instrumentality connected different abbreviated 1 but ends up hitting it to Steve Smith connected the bound connected the limb side.

Smith runs successful and spills it and there's monolithic cheers from the Lord's crowd.

"History is repeating itself here. One of the champion fielders successful the satellite has dropped an implicit dolly," says Nasser Hussain.

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