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Third Test, Headingley
Day Two
With the match in the balance, Australian wicketkeepers Ruthless and Kasinathan looked like getting Australia on top as they batted through the first hour and compiled a sixth wicket stand of 71. But from a strong looking 281/5 England hit back with the second new ball, Thrust getting the breakthrough as Kasinathan edged to slip for another middling score. That sparked a collapse of 4 wickets for 12 runs as Thrust and Smyth-Brown picket up another, and Ruthless became the ninth man out to Herregonaes after putting together a fifty at the other end.
England weren't quite able to claim the spoils outright though as last pair O'Fcoco and David managed to edge and eke the score up to 300. Lunch came with the score on 305/9, and the last wicket stand frustrated England a little longer before Thrust ended the first innings for 322.
In the afternoon O'Fcoco added to his good day by trapping debutant Daemon in front with the new ball. But that was to be the only wicket of the session as England started galloping towards a response total, with Jason Arquis uncharacteristically thwacking a pair of sixes off Ruid. By tea the score was 75/1, and Arquis and Howe pushed England's total into three figures before the visitors hit back through Thexton David.
The match seemingly refusing to let one side have any ascendency, the legspinner had Arquis caught behind after another half century, and soon after dismissed David Worcester-Park and Sir Mole in successive deliveries in a quality spell. During all this Howe had made his way to 64, but was beaten by Ruid in a controversial lbw call to leave England on 144/5.
But once again, advantage couldn't turn into dominance. A late flurry of counter-attacking shots from Herregonaes and Roome broke the collapse, and though Herregonaes was dismissed for Starfighter's first wicket, Roome and Inksquid saw England past 200 and back in the game.
Day Two
With the match in the balance, Australian wicketkeepers Ruthless and Kasinathan looked like getting Australia on top as they batted through the first hour and compiled a sixth wicket stand of 71. But from a strong looking 281/5 England hit back with the second new ball, Thrust getting the breakthrough as Kasinathan edged to slip for another middling score. That sparked a collapse of 4 wickets for 12 runs as Thrust and Smyth-Brown picket up another, and Ruthless became the ninth man out to Herregonaes after putting together a fifty at the other end.
England weren't quite able to claim the spoils outright though as last pair O'Fcoco and David managed to edge and eke the score up to 300. Lunch came with the score on 305/9, and the last wicket stand frustrated England a little longer before Thrust ended the first innings for 322.
In the afternoon O'Fcoco added to his good day by trapping debutant Daemon in front with the new ball. But that was to be the only wicket of the session as England started galloping towards a response total, with Jason Arquis uncharacteristically thwacking a pair of sixes off Ruid. By tea the score was 75/1, and Arquis and Howe pushed England's total into three figures before the visitors hit back through Thexton David.
The match seemingly refusing to let one side have any ascendency, the legspinner had Arquis caught behind after another half century, and soon after dismissed David Worcester-Park and Sir Mole in successive deliveries in a quality spell. During all this Howe had made his way to 64, but was beaten by Ruid in a controversial lbw call to leave England on 144/5.
But once again, advantage couldn't turn into dominance. A late flurry of counter-attacking shots from Herregonaes and Roome broke the collapse, and though Herregonaes was dismissed for Starfighter's first wicket, Roome and Inksquid saw England past 200 and back in the game.
