{"id":35729,"date":"2017-12-06T10:25:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T10:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=35729"},"modified":"2017-12-06T10:25:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T10:25:46","slug":"australia-beat-england-by-120-runs-to-go-2-0-up-in-the-ashes-marsh-man-of-the-match-starc-gets-a-fifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=35729","title":{"rendered":"Australia beat England by 120 runs to go 2-0 up in the Ashes; Marsh man of the match, Starc gets a fifer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">For a better part of the second Test of the Ashes at the Adelaide Oval, Australia would have been the happier side, yet going into the 5<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"> day with less than 200 runs to get and 6 wickets remaining and key man Root unbeaten, one would have thought that England gave&nbsp;themselves a&nbsp;slight chance in the match on the final day of the test to level the series. But Australia\u2019s pacer Josh Hazlewood removed both the overnight batsmen without them scoring any run on the fifth day and with that destroying the distant dream of glory that England had. Especially, the wicket of Joe Root was the key. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-35728\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Marsh-0612.jpg\" alt=\"Marsh 0612\" width=\"520\" height=\"325\" style=\"margin: 1px; float: left;\" \/>At the end of it all though, Mitch Starc finished with impressive figures of 5 for 88 and Australia have managed to win the Test with a good enough margin of 120 runs and with it have gone 2-0 up in the series with 3 Tests to go. Although England managed to put up a fight and take the game into the 5<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"> day with some sort of hope, essentially England had lost the match in the first 2 days itself, when after winning the toss and electing to bowl first, England saw the Aussies bat for more than 5 sessions and setting up a huge score, thanks to the efforts of eventual player of the match Shaun Marsh (126*) and <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Tim Paine (57), to which England couldn\u2019t find a fitting reply and managed only 227 in the first innings and 233 in the second, the difference was clearly someone batting through the innings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">England needed their all-time highest successful chase to win the match and on the final day morning it looked quite probable with Root still there. 17 deliveries later, Root edges the ball to Paine and only formalities remain for Australia to wrap up the match. Australia maintain their unbeaten pink ball test record at the Adelaide Oval, in fact winning all three of them that have been played there. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Both teams meet at Perth\u2019s WACA next, Australia one win away from Ashes title yet again, England one win away from regaining their momentum going into the final 2 tests. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Action begins 14<\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"> December, 2017 <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">8:00 AM (IST). <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a better part of the second Test of the Ashes at the Adelaide Oval, Australia would have been the happier side, yet going into the 5th day with less than 200 runs to get and 6 wickets remaining and key man Root unbeaten, one would have thought that England gave&nbsp;themselves a&nbsp;slight chance in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-cricket-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Australia beat England by 120 runs to go 2-0 up in the Ashes; 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