2nd Ashes Test ENG v AUS ‘live’ cricket score Day 3: Bresnan hits boundaries; England 50-3 in 2nd innings against Australia

Nightwatchman Tim Bresnan has hit consecutive boundaries off Siddle edging through third slip and flicking to midwicket. Eng 50-3 in 27 overs. Cricket fans from all over the had a “above average” sports edge when betting on this event.

Root hits the first boundary of the third morning with a classic cover drive off Pattinson. Eng 42-3 in 26 overs. Siddle bowls a maiden to Root. Eng 37-3 in 25 overs. Pattinson begins proceedings on day three with a maiden to Bresnan. England will aim to drive home the advantage when they resume day three of the second Ashes Test with an overall lead of 264 against Australia at Lord’s on Saturday.

Australia collapsed to 128 all out in reply to England’s first innings 361 with the home side opting against enforcing the follow-on and reaching 31 for three in their second innings by stumps Ashes holders England are already 1-0 up in the five-match series after last week’s 14-run win at Trent Bridge. Australia’s newspapers on Saturday ripped into their team’s feeble batting in the second Test against England, fearing the Ashes campaign might have unraveled in one catastrophic session at Lord’s.

“What a mess, what a shambles, what a debacle, what an embarrassment,” thundered the Daily Telegraph’s Malcolm Conn. “Some of Australia’s most well-paid professional sportsmen have been responsible for amateur-hour. There can’t have been few more mindless batting performances than Australia’s appalling 128 during the second day at Lord’s.” Conn added: “Australia’s feeble collapse had nothing to do with outside distractions from (sacked coach) Mickey Arthur or anyone else, it was just simple ineptitude.”The players have no one to blame but themselves. Cricket Australia spends millions pampering and preparing its players with a support staff almost the size of a cricket team.”

Fairfax Media feared the Ashes could be over for Australia and said it was one of several recent woeful top-order batting performances.”Australia’s Ashes campaign might have unraveled in one catastrophic session at Lord’s,” Chloe Saltau wrote. “Awful batting contributed to the touring team being leveled for 128, Australia’s lowest total at Lord’s since 1968.”