One of the historic Series in the history of World Cricket dating back to 1882 – 1883 when the first Ashes Series was played.
The Ashes Series 2021-2022 Began on 8th December on a Cloudy Morning at the “The GABBA”, Brisbane. England Won the toss and to everyone’s Surprise opted to Bat first.
The Conditions were Cloudy With the pitch having even cover of grass all over and overcast conditions. England had the Worst of Starts to the series With Mitchell Starc Cleaning Up Rory Burns down the leg on the very first ball of the series.
England Choose Jack leach over Stuart Broad Which was a surprise and most probably resting Anderson and Broad for the Day night Test Which Will be Played at the Adelaide oval from 16th – 20th December.
England Were Bundled out for 147 Runs in 50.1 overs on the first day. Jos Butler top Scored with 39 Runs.Ollie pope and Chris Woakes provided the Support to Butler Scoring 35 and 21 Runs respectively.
Pat Cummins Who was appointed as the Captain of the Australian Cricket test team bowled a Captains Spell Picking Up a 5 Wicket haul on his Captaincy debut.Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood picked Up two wickets a Piece.
Cameron Green Who made his ashes debut Picked up his first wicket getting the important Wicket of Ollie Pope who was building a partnership with Butler.
Australia Were right on top of England Since Ball one of the test Match and that resulted in none of England batsman were able to Judge the Swing of the bowlers which resulted in a Collapse.
The Rain interruption ended the days Play With only 50.1 Were been bowled.The Conditions are expected to be overcast for the next two days and expect a lot of Swing for the bowlers.With England Opting to rest Both Anderson and Broad with the conditions favouring Swing Could have been perfect for the duo.
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