Australia hosted England in the second Test of the Ashes series in a pick-ball game in Adeliade and registered a huge win by 275 runs. While England’s defeat was inevitable, they didn’t go down without fighting. The likes of Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, and Chris Woakes, who are known for playing an attacking brand of cricket, played opposite of their character and tried to pull off a draw. However, the Aussie bowlers were too hot to handle, especially Jhye Richardson, who scalped his maiden five-wicket haul in Test matches.
The hosts put a brilliant performance in the match as after winning the toss, the Aussies elected to bat first and nothing went wrong for them since then as they put up a daunting total of 473 runs in their first innings owing to the half-centuries, from David Warner (95), Steve Smith (93), and Alex Carey (51). Marnus Labuschagne smashed a century as well.
WATCH – Joe Root Suffers A Huge Blow On His Crotch On Day 4 In Adelaide
But England failed to do well in the game so far as their batter didn’t have answers from the Australian bowlers barring Joe R0ot (62) and Dawid Malan (80) as they were bundled out for 236 runs, but the hosts didn’t ask the visitors to follow on. In the second innings, Australia managed to take a humongous lead of 467 runs owing to the half0centuries from Labsuchagne (51) and Travis Head (51).
In their second innings, Australia declared their innings at 230/9. After coming out to bat in the second innings, the English batting line-up crumbled again as the down to 82/4 before the end of the day’s play on Day 4. On Day 5, just when the game looked spiced, Jos Buttler was dismissed in arguably the most unfortunate manner.
WATCH – Gritty 207-ball Knock Of Jos Buttler Wasted After The Hit-wicket Dismissal
Buttler went on the backfoot to tackle Richardson’s short delivery and suffered a hit-wicket dismissal. He was subsequently dismissed and the Aussies didn’t have to work hard for the last wicket either. As a result, Aussies won their ninth successive Pink-Ball Test and gained a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
Here is how the fans reacted to Australia’s win:
There will obviously be chats in the dressing room and a lot of soul searching for this England team. But, I don’t care what people say about the squad and team. This is definitely the right squad full of talent. I’d just ask them to get in to a battle with Australia.
— Rikki Clarke (@RikkiClarke81) December 20, 2021
Maybe England should have the Boxing Day test off to freshen up! pic.twitter.com/uWQWPTgjyi
— Damien Martyn🏏 (@damienmartyn) December 20, 2021
🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺😂😂😂😂🥂🥂🥂😁😁😁 https://t.co/fMkZtIepWu
— Damien Martyn🏏 (@damienmartyn) December 20, 2021
Congrats to the Aussie guys who go 2 nil up in the #Ashes So happy to see Jhye picking a 5’fa as well.
— Lisa Sthalekar (@sthalekar93) December 20, 2021
Brilliant! 👏🏼 #Ashes
— Pat Cummins (@patcummins30) December 20, 2021
Marnus Labuschagne is the Player of the Match #Ashes pic.twitter.com/RzHzTarZ80
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/SgtArthurWilson/status/1472868654983352321?s=20
How are the Ashes going? pic.twitter.com/M6JjWgWKuU
— Dom Smith (@DGabrielliSmith) December 20, 2021
Adam Gilchrist( Oz tv) : “Are you confident with the personnel you have that you can turn this around?”
Joe Root: “I have to be”
In other words …. #AshesTest #Ashes
— Mark Austin (@markaustintv) December 20, 2021
Joe Root has just blamed *the bowlers* for that loss. 🤯 #Ashes
— 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗵 (@paulisbored) December 20, 2021
Shite again , all this nonsense of "least showing some fight" int good enough for me! Were was the fight 1st 2nd 3rd days! Garbage ! 4 years planning for this #Ashes
— David Woodcock (@Davewooder08) December 20, 2021
“Go, Aussie Go. Let’s hear it” #Ashes
— Willy Aitch (@WillyAitch) December 20, 2021
