Jhye Richardson, who has only played two Tests to date, defeated uncapped speed veteran Michael Neser for a position in Australia’s attack with Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, and spinner Nathan Lyon.
Still, opener David Warner has been permitted to play in the second day-night Ashes test against England, Australia skipper Pat Cummins announced on Wednesday.
Jhye Richardson will replace injured fast bowler Josh Hazlewood. Richardson, who has only played two Tests to date, last played a red-ball match for Australia against Sri Lanka in 2019.
After sustaining a groin injury during Australia’s nine-wicket victory in the first Test at the Gabba, Hazlewood will be missing from the Adelaide test. Lefthander Warner suffered rib injuries after absorbing a pair of body knocks during his 94-pitch outing in Brisbane.
There could have been no further changes to the XI that thrashed Australia at the Gabba to take a 1-0 lead in the Ashes five-match series.
After capturing it in 2019 in England, Australia presently possesses the urn when they drew the series 2-2 against Joe Root’s team.
Ashes First Test Match Summary
Later, in the first half of the third-day session, England compliantly lost their last eight wickets for 77 runs, including the hurried departure of Joe Root for 89 and Dawid Malan for 82.
Nathan Lyon’s 400th Test wicket was Malan, who went on to take 4-91 as England were bowled out for 297. Lyon became the 17th person in Test history to reach the milestone of 400 wickets.
All things considered, they were about as good as beaten when they were bowled out for 147 by tea on the first ball. Furthermore, David Warner was dropped and bowled off a no-ball when he batted for 94 runs in Australia’s first innings.
Given their dreadful past at the Gabba and a jumbled schedule, England needed everything to go perfectly for them if they were to leave Brisbane with a result. They chose to bat in perfect bowling conditions and benched outperformer Stuart Broad in favour of spinner Jack Leach, who was blasted for 102 runs in 13 overs. Inquire will be undertaken into England’s decisions.
In all fairness, the way the ground behaved suggests that Australia would have faced a lopsided skip and abandoned Leach if England had the possibility of posting a challenging target in the fourth innings.
When the batting collapses in the first two innings and chances are not taken in the field, throw and determination decisions become meaningless.
Three weeks beforehand, Australia’s joy at winning the T20 World Cup was shattered by captain Tim Paine’s resignation in a texting fiasco, with the previous commander withdrawing from the tournament entirely.
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Cummins Performance in His First Test as Captain
Cummins commemorated his captaincy debut with seven wickets, Travis Head repaid his determination with 152, and Paine’s substitute was successful. Alex Carey grabbed eight catches behind the wickets, a Test debut record.
After the match, England was penalised and fined 100% of their match cost for a delayed over rate.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) deemed the tourists to be five overs short of their target rate.
Travis Head, the man of the match, was even fined 15% of his match fees due to passing irrelevant comments.
