The historic Ashes series started today. In the Gabba, the visitors England won the toss and decided to bat first. But due to the brilliant bowling of captain Pat Cummins, Australia bundled out the British for just 147 runs. But due to incessant rain, the game could not start after the second session and the day was ruined.
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game stopped due to rain
The match has not been resumed since the end of England’s innings. The weather turned foul even before the Australian batsmen could get on the field. Now the fans are waiting for the competition to start again.
collapsed like a deck of cards
After winning the toss on the first day of the first Ashes Test at the Gabba, England scored 147 runs in 50.1 overs for the loss of ten wickets. By lunch, four wickets had fallen for 59 runs.
Eight wickets fell in the second session
In the second session of the game, the England team lost eight wickets. None of the batsmen could stay at the crease. Under Root’s captaincy, England lost 1-3 to India in February-March this year, which was followed by a 0-1 loss to New Zealand in the two-Test series. The new captain, Cummins, takes over the leadership role from Tim Paine, who stepped down following a controversy involving a former Cricket Tasmania employee. Penn later decided to take an indefinite break from the game.
Disappointing return of Ben Stokes
Pat Cummins took his first wicket as Australian Test captain by getting star all-rounder Ben Stokes caught by Marnus Labuschagne at third slip. The score was 29 runs for four wickets.
Three wickets fell in six overs
Mitchell Starc’s swing-taking yorker returned to the pavilion as soon as Burns arrived, then Josh Hazlewood dismissed David Malan (six) and Root (zero) to reduce England’s score to 11 for three in the sixth over.
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