England get late wickets to stay in the game after another batting collapse

(Cricket news) Day 2 of the 5th and final Ashes Test match started with Australia batting in the 1st innings on 245/6 with Mitchell Starc and Alex Carey at the crease. The day started half an hour early due to rain interruption yesterday.

Mark Wood picked up the wickets of Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc early on. Chris Woakes dismissed Alex Carey. Nathan Lyon came in and swung his arms around as he scored 31 runs off 27 balls hitting 1 four and 3 sixes. Stuart Broad finally bowled him as the Australian innings came to an end with 303 runs on the board. Rory Burns who came back into the side after sitting out the last two Tests was run-out without scoring a single run. The wrong call was given by his batting partner Zak Crawley but Burns didn't even bother to dive. Bruns and Malan both were out after edging the ball but the umpire didn't give it out and the Aussies decided not to review it.

Pat Cummins picked up the wicket of Zak Crawley. The Australia captain then came back and bowled a fiery spell in which he picked up the wickets of Joe Root and Dawid Malan who were building a partnership. Lyon took a stunning catch off Mitchell Starc's bowling to dismiss Ben Stokes as England were in deep trouble on 88/5. Scott Boland joined the party as he dismissed Ollie Pope. He then produced the edge of Chris Woakes twice but the catches were dropped by David Warner and Usman Khawaja. Sam Billings and Woakes added 42 valuable runs before Cameron Green. Starc was brought back into the attack and he got rid of Woakes and Broad while Cummins cleaned up Mark Wood. England were bowled out for 188.

Warner and Khawaja walked out to bat with a lead of 115 runs. Warner just like the first innings was dismissed for a duck this time by Broad. Woakes got rid of Marnus Labuschagne shortly after while Mark Wood's brutal bouncer got the wicket of Khawaja. Scott Boland came in as night watchman and showed great resilience to survive. Australia ended the day on 37/3 with a lead of 152 runs.

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