England captain Joe Root bowled a bouncer to Usman Khawaja, who scored his first innings century, on the stroke of the tee break on the fourth day of the fourth Ashes Test on the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday.
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Root’s bouncer stunned Australian batsmen Khawaja and Ollie Pope, who’ve been drafted as wicketkeepers for England after Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow suffered finger accidents. Before the gamers went out for a tea break, Khawaja reacted with a sign for an over in the direction of Root.
England took essential wickets of Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith, however Australia continued their march in the direction of the second declaration on the fourth day of the fourth Ashes Test with a 271-run lead at tea on Saturday.
Australia scored 149 for 4 with Usman Khawaja on 35 not out and all-rounder Cameron Greene remained unbeaten on 26. Green and Khawaja added 63 runs for the fifth wicket at tea time.
Australia bundled out England’s first dig at 294 within the first hour of the day, however they did not have all of it their manner as they declared 416-8 to take a 122-run lead.
Openers David Warner (3) and Marcus Harris (27) have been eliminated earlier than lunch and pacer Mark Wood dismissed Labuschagne (29) for the third consecutive time within the first over after the break.
All three batsmen have been overtaken by England off-fielder Ollie Pope, who was holding wickets instead of the injured Jos Buttler and Jonny Bairstow.
Jack Leach, who had beforehand deceived Harris together with his spin, bought his second wicket when a supply skidded off Smith’s stumps for 23 when the previous Australia captain.
Earlier, Scott Boland got here to the fore once more as Australia despatched England’s final three batsmen so as to add 36 runs to their in a single day rating.
Boland ultimately ended Bairstow’s innings for 113 runs and ended England’s batting by trailing Stuart Broad for 15 runs.
Boland completed with figures of 4–36, giving him 11 wickets at a mean of 8.27 after his first three innings of Test cricket.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
