Australia Struggled, 80-4 in Second Ashes Test 2019, Jofra Archer Strikes
England's fast-bowling player, Debutant Jofra Archer scored with a wicket as Australia’s top order suffered and collapse at Lord's in Second Test of Ashes 2019.
Australia lost three wickets for only 11-runs on the way to 80-4 when rain forced an early lunch on the third day of the second test Ashes 2019. That left Australia 178-runs behind England's first innings of 258.
Jofra Archer, on the ground where he knocked down the Super Over that saw England seal a World Cup 2019 final win over New Zealand last month, had good wicket figures for 18 runs in 13 overs.
But Australian star batsman Steve Smith was still there on the 13th not out, with Matthew Wade undefeated at all.
Australia, 1-0 in the five-match series after their 251-run win in the first Test at Edgbaston, resumed 30-1 after watching Stuart Broad fire David Warner at a low price for the third time in so many innings in this series.
The game resumed under bleak skies, the reflectors lit in full light, with difficult conditions to bat.
Cameron Bancroft was five out and Usman Khawaja 18 was not after a lively opening spell by Archer, in place of the injured James Anderson, England's all-time leader, on Thursday.
Khawaja hit two offsides in four balls when the first change Chris Woakes fell short.
But England altered the morning momentum with two wickets for no four-ball race, as Australia's 60-1 became 60-3.
Archer had his first test wicket when he hit one again abruptly to have Bancroft lbw by 13.
Sussex's 24-year-old pacemaker celebrations were put on hold when Bancroft reviewed it.
But replays showing that the ball would have cut the top of the stomps meant that Aleem Dar, equaling Steve Bucknor's record of 128 tests, saw his decision confirmed.
There were some boos when Smith, a newcomer to hundreds of twins at Edgbaston in his comeback test after a 12-month ban on handling the ball, entered the bat.
I could only see how Woakes, with England, finally throwing himself over the wicket at Khawaja, induced an outer edge to the wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow who saw the left-hander caught by 36.
Australia was 71-4 when Broad had Travis Head lbw for seven, although England had to revise Dar's original verdict, which has no verdict, with technology indicating that the ball would have crashed into the middle and left-hander's legs.
The All-rounder Ben Stokes thought he had Wade lbw for a duck, but the Aussies Batsmen review revealed that the ball had thrown out of the leg's stump.
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