Australia defeated England by two wickets in the first match of the Ashes Test series at Edgbaston in Birmingham, Australia has made a lead by 1-0 in the five-match series. In the exciting and highly intense match. The day 5 match began after a rain-delayed, Australia scored 107/3 at the end of day 4’s play, and the Aussies needed 174 runs to win while the English team needs 7 wickets.
Australia lost their 8 wickets in 227 runs and all their top-order batsmen lost their wickets, Khawaja was bowled by England skipper Ben Stokes for 65 and it looked almost an impossible task for the tailender to chase the remaining target and England was closing in on victory. But Cummins and Nathan Lyon’s 50 runs partnership launched a fightback and sealed victory with Cummins scoring an unbeaten 44.
Once again a Similar kind of environment of the 2005 Ashes Test at Edgbaston was created, In 2005 England set a target of 282 and Australia suffered an agonising two-run defeat. But this time Australia chased the target successfully and won the match by 2 wickets.
Pat Cummins said:
“You just need that belief that you can win from anywhere…that belief that anyone is a match-winner and you can be the guy to step up and win. When you are in the backyard as a kid, you wish to be in these moments and going out there in the middle of an Ashes series.”
“This is No.1, yeah, absolutely. Start of an Ashes series, definitely number one. Probably when we got down to 10 runs or so required or maybe 16 runs or something, I thought like 2 runs an over and felt pretty confident about winning. It felt like from almost the first session of Day 1, it was 50-50 the whole way along. Like it never felt like it swung too far, one way or the other,”