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Australia vs England Scorecard, 2nd Test, The Ashes 2019
Result · Aug 14 2019, Wed - 03:30 PM (IST)
ENGLAND258, 258/5 decl
AUSTRALIA250, 154/6
Match Drawn
CRR:3.24
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Australia in England 2019 |
| Date: | Aug 14 2019, Wed - 03:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | England |
| City: | London |
| Venue: | Lord's |
| Toss: | Australia won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| England Playing XI: | Rory Burns, Jason Roy, Joe Root (c), Joe Denly, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Chris Woakes, Jofra Archer, Stuart Broad, Jack Leach |
| Australia Playing XI: | Cameron Bancroft, David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Matthew Wade, Tim Paine (c) (wk), Pat Cummins, Peter Siddle, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon, Marnus Labuschagne |
- England have won each of the last four men's Ashes series to take place on home soil, the last time Australia managed to lift the urn on the road was back in 2001; England have not gone on to win the Ashes after losing the series opener since 2005.
- Australia are currently enjoying a seven-game unbeaten streak in men's Test matches versus England - winning six of those encounters (D1) - England's last Ashes victory came at Trent Bridge in 2015.
- Australia have only tasted defeat twice in their last 21 men's Ashes Tests played at Lord's (W10 D9); those two losses have come in their last three matches there however (2009 & 2013).
- England have managed to record wins in four of their last five men's Test matches played at Lord's (L1); they have won back-to-back games there and have done so by margins of 143 runs (Ireland, July 2019) as well as an innings and 159 runs (India, August 2018).
- England have slumped to successive home defeats in men's Ashes Tests, as many losses to Australia in England as they had managed in 18 outings there beforehand (W10 D6); Australia haven't claimed three Ashes wins on the bounce away from home since 2001 however.
- England suffered a comprehensive 251-run loss in the series opener at Edgbaston against Australia; they have not recorded back-to-back defeats in men's Test matches on home soil since 2008 (both against South Africa).
- Jofra Archer (England) is set for his Test debut, his most recent first-class appearance was almost 12 months ago for Sussex (v Warwickshire, September 2018); he did however, take match figures of 8/103 in his only previous first-class appearance at Lord's (Middlesex v Sussex, August 2018).
- Jack Leach has taken 29 County Championship wickets at an average of just 19 this season for Somerset, he also posted 92 with the bat in his last Test knock for England (v Ireland, July 2019).
- Australia's Steve Smith has scored 76+ in each of his last six Test innings versus England, posting 239, 76, 102*, 83, 144 and 142; he has averaged 139 across his nine knocks in the Ashes since the start of the last series (2017/18 in Australia).
- Chris Woakes has taken 24 Test wickets at an average of just 9.8 at Lord's, the third-best rate of any seamer at a single venue (20+ dismissals); he’s also the only England batsman (3+ knocks) to average 40+ in home men's Tests since the start 2018 (42.2 - eight innings).