Australia wins 1st test: England overpowered baseball, started dream, then lost the match in hand

Australia wins 1st test: England overpowered baseball, started dream, then lost the match in hand. New Delhi. The England team has lost the first Test match of the Ashes series even after a dream start. In the first Test match played against Australia in Birmingham, England made the mistake of declaring the innings when it could easily cross the score of 400 runs. But in an attempt to give a strong message, England captain Ben Stokes declared the innings by scoring 393 runs for 8 wickets. In a five-day Test match, it took more time for England to bat even for a whole day. Australia took advantage of this. He blunted England’s aggression with his intelligence and won the first Test to take a 1-0 lead in the Ashes series.

Did hosts England lose the first Test match of the Ashes series due to over-attack? Before knowing the answer, let us know the complete condition of the match. England won the toss and batted first in the first Test match of the Ashes series played at Edgbaston. He declared the innings by scoring 393 runs for 8 wickets. In response, Australia scored 386 runs in their first innings. After this, England scored 273 runs in their second innings. In this way Australia got a target of 281 runs to win. Australia achieved this target by losing 8 wickets in 92.3 overs.

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England may have lost this match, but he took some such decisions in the game, which will be remembered for a long time. Especially by scoring 393 runs at a run rate of more than 5 on the first day, England gave the message that it is going to perform well in baseball. Leaving aside the technical definition of baseball, it simply means scoring runs fast, without worrying about how fast the wickets are falling. Aggressive Batting. ODI style game in Test cricket too.

Australia wins 1st test: England overpowered baseball, started dream, then lost the match in hand

It was still okay to score fast runs, but England made a mistake in trying to give a strong message, which overshadowed them. When England scored 393 runs for 8 wickets in just 78 overs on the first day. So at that time it seemed that he could score 450. But English captain Ben Stokes declared the innings. He didn’t even bother to bat for a whole day.

When England declared the innings on the first day, Joe Root 118 and Ollie Robinson were playing on 17 runs. Root and Robinson had an unbeaten partnership of 43 runs off 44 balls. That is, both were scoring runs fast. There is no doubt that if both of them had batted for the next 7-8 overs, they could have added 40-50 more runs. But Ben Stokes felt that now his team does not need more runs. He declared the innings. There can be a thousand excuses or reasons for the defeat, but there is no doubt that declaring the innings on the first day was the biggest reason for England’s defeat.

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