The World Cup winning Australian team is on a tour of England these days and is continuously performing brilliantly here. Australia has already gained the lead by winning the first two matches of the 5-match ODI series against England. In the third match too, the Australian team came on the field with the intention of winning the series and the team scored a big score but during this time the team’s star batsman Marnus Labuschagne caused harm to himself. Labuschagne wanted to play a shot by showing cleverness but he hit the ball on his helmet and then lost the wicket.
The two teams played a match on Tuesday 24 September at Chester Le Street Stadium in Durham. The Australian team batted first in this match. Its start was not good but Steve Smith and Cameron Green handled the innings. After Green was out, Marnus Labuschagne entered the crease. This right-handed batsman played a brilliant half-century innings of 77 runs in the first match of the series and led the team to victory. However, in the second match, he could score only 17 runs.
The ball hit his helmet, he lost his wicket
Labuschagne, who came in this match with the intention of making up for his failure in the last match, had to face a worse failure this time and this time he had to pay the price for his cleverness. Labuschagne, who had just come to the crease, had faced only 2 balls but on the third ball itself, he started playing a scoop shot against spinner Will Jacks and this is where he made a mistake.
Caught off his head!
Labuschagne departs
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, The ball bounced a little too much, due to which the shot did not go through the middle of the bat and the ball hit the grill of his helmet directly after touching the bat. Due to this, the ball bounced in the air and the wicketkeeper took a very easy catch. Labuschagne just kept watching. It was even more painful for him to get out like this because he could not even open his account.
Australia’s big score
Labuschagne failed but Australia’s middle order definitely took charge of the team. Steve Smith played an important innings of 60 runs, while Cameron Green also scored 42 runs. Wicketkeeper Alex Carey was the real star of the innings, who played an unbeaten innings of 77 runs in 65 balls and took the team to a strong score of 304 runs. Apart from him, in the lower order, Aaron Hardy contributed to taking the team to this level by scoring 44 runs in just 26 balls. Australia scored 49 runs in the last 4 overs.
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