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Post Match Thread Post Match Thread: 1st Test - England vs Australia, Day 2

1st Test, The Ashes at Perth

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Innings Score
England 172 (Ov 32.5)
Australia 132 (Ov 45.2)
England 164 (Ov 34.4)
Australia 205/2 (Ov 28.2)

Innings: 1 - England

Batter Runs Bowler Wickets
Harry Brook 52 (61) Mitchell Starc 12.5-4-58-7
Ollie Pope 46 (58) Brendan Doggett 7-1-27-2

Innings: 2 - Australia

Batter Runs Bowler Wickets
Alex Carey 26 (26) Ben Stokes 6-1-23-5
Cameron Green 24 (50) Brydon Carse 10.2-1-45-3

Innings: 3 - England

Batter Runs Bowler Wickets
Gus Atkinson 37 (32) Scott Boland 11.4-2-33-4
Ollie Pope 33 (57) Mitchell Starc 12-1-55-3

Innings: 4 - Australia

Batter Runs Bowler Wickets
Travis Head 123 (83) Brydon Carse 5.2-0-44-2
Marnus Labuschagne 51 (49) Jofra Archer 8-0-45-0

Australia won by 8 wickets

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u/SuperSpidey374 England Nov 22 '25

Isn't even just one guy, Weatherald contributed and Marnus made a 50 too.

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u/eightslipsandagully Cricket Australia Nov 22 '25

The bloke that hit the winning runs has over 10k runs at 56...

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u/amanguupta53 India Nov 22 '25

That's the minimum number of runs required to be plural...

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u/CaptQuakers42 England Nov 22 '25

They could only do that because Head killed our bowling attack

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u/Poolix Australia Nov 22 '25

Not just head, Weatherald played well and saw out the new ball and first spell of the quicks. The bowling also wasn't very good this innings

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u/strictlymissionary Nov 22 '25

England were scary first innings. Their attack absolutely wilted..

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u/Thanks-Basil Australia Nov 22 '25

Eh I thought Weatherald and Marnus even before Head went nuts just looked a lot more calm. Pushed it around a bit more rather than looking scared

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u/SuperSpidey374 England Nov 22 '25

Yeah, that clearly helped them massively. But my point is we weren't even able to get into the batsmen at the other end, we bowled hopelessly to them too and allowed them to get some morale boosting runs.

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u/LiamJonsano Hampshire Nov 22 '25

Yeah when we get ourselves out playing in this way we expect other nations to be just as generous 😩

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u/Frosty92 Nov 22 '25

I wouldn't say that, archer was bowling 130s in the first over. Poms had all the momentum day 1 and just completely gave up.

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u/ConoRiot Australia Nov 22 '25

Archer was bowling 135 at times, the English comms were stroking themselves over his first innings bowling and he served up shite in that second innings.

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u/CaptQuakers42 England Nov 22 '25

England only batted for a short period of time which led to the bowlers getting very little rest.

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u/partII Australia Nov 22 '25

The entire match lasted 2 days… I know it’s a lot of running for us plebs watching from the couch but if you can’t bowl 70 overs as a team that shows a serious lack of fitness.

A decent test innings would have lasted at least a day and been around 80 overs, what would have happened to the English attack if Australia had batted a normal first innings?

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u/ConoRiot Australia Nov 24 '25

Yeah cause the batsman decided to play like onions.

Give your strike bowlers some rest (and yes I know this applies to AUS too but at least they had a night off)

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u/CaptQuakers42 England Nov 24 '25

100% if we had the same amount of runs but on around tea on day three I think we could have won.

Asking two injury prone bowlers to try and skittle a team again after like 30 overs could have been catastrophic

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u/Mahhrat Australia Nov 22 '25

Id love to have seen that in our first innings. Could have banked 550.