The outstanding knock by Australian Captain Pat Cummings on the last day made them win the first test match against England.
The Ashes series has been started and will consist of five test matches.
Birmingham hosted the first test match from June 16–20.
The English team won the toss and elected to bat first.
By the end of day three, Australia was behind by 82 runs.
Match Details
The first test match in the Ashes series started on June 16th.
England made a total of 393/8 by the end of day one and declared their innings.
In return, Australia had a score of 311/5, as Usman had a score of 126 and Alex had a score of 52.
The next day, Australia made up a total of 386 runs as England took all their wickets.
Stuart Broad and Ollie Robinson took three wickets each.
England Innings
England were seven runs ahead when they came to bat again.
Zak and Ben opened the inning for them as Pat gave them an early breakthrough.
Joe Root and Harry Brook handled the situation as they played important knocks.
In the end, Ben played the captain’s knock as the English team made a total of 273 runs for the loss of all their wickets.
Pat Cummings and Nathan Lyon took four wickets each, and Josh Hazlewood and Scott Boland took one wicket each.
Australia Innings
The Australians needed 281 runs to win the match against England.
Usman Khawaja and David Warner opened the inning for Australia.
They both gave a good start to their teams, as they were playing well.
Ollie Robinson didn’t let the partnership be big enough as he took the wicket of David.
Stuart Broad, after that, gave two massive breakthroughs to the Australian team.
By the end of day two, Australia had a score of 107/3.
The next day, there was heavy rainfall, which interrupted the play.
However, the rain finally stopped, but the fall of wickets for the Australian team didn’t.
Pat Cummings, in the end, played the captain’s knock as Australia won the match by two wickets.