India vs England Highlights: India lost three quick wickets late in the final session to hand over the advantage to England at Stumps on Day 4 of the second Test at Lord's.
After emphatically quashing worries over the future of Tests with an edge-of-the-seat Edgbaston thriller, England and India move to the ‘home of Test cricket’. Lord’s hasn’t escaped the current dry spell in the UK, but with rain forecast for the weekend this match could bring all three possible results into play.
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Joe Root pleaded guilty to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction
The first Test between England and New Zealand had ended in a draw
Joe Root-led England on Monday were fined 40 per cent of their match fees for maintaining a slow over-rate against New Zealand in the first Test at Lord s Cricket Ground. Chris Broad of the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees imposed the sanction after Joe Root s side was ruled to be two overs short of the target after time allowances were taken into consideration. In accordance with Article 2.22 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to minimum over-rate offences, players are fined 20 percent of their match fees for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time, ICC stated in an official release.
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Devon Conway scored a Test debut double century
England ended Day 2 on 111 for two
New Zealand s Devon Conway made exactly 200 on his Test debut before England captain Joe Root helped the hosts recover from a top-order collapse on the second day of the series opener at Lord s on Thursday. Opening batsman Conway was last man out in a first-innings total of 378. England, who slumped to 18-2, ended the day on 111-2, a deficit of 267 runs. Burns was 59 not out and Root unbeaten on 42, with their partnership worth 93 runs. Earlier, South Africa-born left-hander Conway was in sight of becoming the very first batsman in the 144-year history of Test cricket to carry their bat throughout the entire innings in their first knock in the format when he was run out to end a stay of more than nine-and-a-half hours.
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The first Test will be played in Brisbane on December 8
The 5th and final Test will be played at the Optus stadium in Perth
Cricket Australia said they were hopeful of staging an Ashes series in front of full crowds later this year but stressed they would follow government advice when it came to admitting travelling supporters as the schedule for the England s men s and women s tours was released on Tuesday. The five-Test men s Ashes will start in Brisbane on December 8 before a day/night match in Adelaide. The traditional Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground will then take place.