Bairstow row casts shadow over third Ashes Test
Australia can expect to face a fired-up England and a furious crowd in the third Ashes Test at Headingley starting on Thursday.
Australia can expect to face a fired-up England and a furious crowd in the third Ashes Test at Headingley starting on Thursday.
Australia stand-in spinner Todd Murphy expects to be targeted by the England team and home fans alike in the third Ashes Test at Headingley.
Nathan Lyon will play no further part in the Ashes, with the Australia off-spinner backing Todd Murphy to pick up where he left off.
Jonny Bairstow tried to dismiss Marnus Labuschagne on day three of the Lord’s Test in the same way that he would be dismissed on day five.
Jonny Bairstow was dismissed in controversial fashion at Lord’s on Sunday. Should Pat Cummins have withdrawn Australia’s appeal?
Ben Stokes’ brilliant 155 wasn’t enough for England at Lord’s as Australia took a 2-0 Ashes series lead.
Australia took a stranglehold on the Ashes series after beating England by 43 runs in a fiery and controversial second Test at Lord’s on Sunday.
Jonny Bairstow’s controversial dismissal in the second Ashes Test on Sunday sent the Lord’s crowd into an unprecedented rage as Australia players clashed with spectators in the famous Pavilion Long Room.
Usman Khawaja was held back by security while the Australians were booed by Long Room members at Lord’s on Sunday.
Jonny Bairstow was stumped during the final day of the second Ashes Test at Lord’s after mistakenly thinking the ball was dead.
Nathan Lyon has criticised suggestions that he went out to bat at Lord’s on Saturday “to get hit in the head”.
Injured Australia spinner Nathan Lyon insisted he had no regrets about risking further damage to his torn calf during his extraordinary innings at Lord’s on Saturday.
Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins put Australia in charge at Lord’s on Saturday.
Mitchell Starc sparked an England collapse at Lord’s on Sunday before Ben Duckett was given a controversial reprieve .
Mitchell Starc celebrated catching Ben Duckett, only for the third umpire, Marais Erasmus, to rule that the Australian was not in control of his body when grounding the ball.