In the continuing first match of the Ashes 2023 between England and Australia, Ben Stokes got here up with an unconventional area set-up to do away with Usman Khawaja, who scored a century at Edgbaston, Birmingham. It was on day 3 when Stokes introduced six fielders within the catching place, barely leaving any hole for Khawaja to attain some runs in entrance of the wicket.
The English speedster Ollie Robinson bowled a yorker size and Usman danced down the pitch to breach the six fielders however miscued it fully and the ball went on to crash his stumps. Earlier, Australia’s explosive opener Usman Khawaja made his first Test hundred in England and led the battle on Day 2 of the primary Ashes Test towards England at Edgbaston in Birmingham.
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Khawaja batted properly regardless of Australia stored on shedding wickets at common intervals, and he additionally stitched a vital 81-run partnership with Travis Head for the fourth wicket with each batters reaching their half-centuries earlier than Moeen Ali cleaned up Head within the forty sixth over. He once more made a 72-run stand for the fifth wicket with Ashes debutant Cameron Green, placing Australia in a commanding place on Day 2.
Moments after Green’s wicket, Usman reached his maiden century on English soil by hitting Stokes for a boundary within the 69th over. He took 199 balls to achieve the three-figure mark. This was Khawaja’s fifteenth Test century and his fourth towards England.
After Khawaja collected his ton, his colleague Travis Head spoke about the identical with Sky Sports and mentioned, “It’s an enormous weight off his shoulders. As a world cricketer, everybody talks about tons of abroad and he hasn’t had the best of occasions main into this sequence. I do know he’s decided and as soon as he received by the brand new ball, he performed superbly”.
