Live cricket updates: Australia v England – The Ashes, second test, third day

Live updates from Adelaide on the third day of the second Ashes test between Australia and England.

Second day report:

Marnus Labuschagne became the first player to hit three centuries in tonight’s test matches, while captain Steve Smith missed a ton as Australia strangled England with a strong overall score of 473-9 in the second Ashes test on Friday.

Labuschagne scored 103 and Smith scored 93 before Australian tailenders knocked out some quick runs against England’s worn bowlers and Australia declared after the tea.

England limped to 17-2 in the 8.4 rounds – after another 456 runs – before a massive flash of lightning took players off the field and closed the second day of play prematurely.

Michael Nesser got yeast from his second ball in test cricket when he caught Haseeb Hameed (6) midway after Mitchell Starc caught Rory Burns (4) slipping across his left hand. bat shoulder.

Starc (39 not outdoors) and Neser (35) had previously shared a fast half-century streak of eight points after England seemed to curb damage and gained Australia 390-7.

Jhye Richardson lofted Chris Woakes (1-103) a big six off his second ball over the midwicket before Smith announced when Richardson was caught behind Woakes.

Ben Stokes, who dropped a tough Starc catch from his own bowling, finished 3-113, but Australia eliminated both England openings cheaply before the game was suspended early.

Smith and Alex Carey (51) combined 91 runs at the sixth door before Anderson eliminated both bats in consecutive turns just before tea. Smith shuffled back across the line and was sentenced to lbw and Carey grabbed an easy catch on the decks.

Earlier, England took three places during a steady first session, with Australia continuing 221-2.

After a dramatic 40 minutes since the start of the day, Labuschagne, who returned at the age of 95, elevated Jimmy Anderson to the third man in four to record his career in the sixth century and first in Ashes.

A moment later, he was caught behind Ollie Robinson and retreated to the boundary wire before replays showed it had been a non-ball.

After 400 minutes, Labbchagne fell awkwardly, but was determined to stay in the match. That’s the spirit!

Of the 3,068 players in the 144-year history of test cricket, only Don Bradman, George Headley, Herbert Sutcliffe and Mike Hussey have achieved 2,000 runs faster than Labuschagne’s 34 innings.

Bradman reached 2,000 runs in 22 innings, with Headley 32 in Jamaica and Sutcliffe in England and Hussey 33 in Australia.

Labuschagne has now achieved centuries in three consecutive day-night tests in Adelaide Oval, averaging nearly 100 and only one score below 40.

Australia’s staggering total of the first innings could prove significant in the outcome of the game. All eight teams that have made 300 or more strokes in the first day-night tests have won. And the eight teams that fall below that mark are all lost.

Australia are playing their ninth day-night match and have won the previous eight, all at home.

Travis Head, the first experimental maker of the century, was absent on Friday 18 after Captain Joe Root threw him over the ball. Cameron Green soon followed with two, Stokes bowling, as England’s allrounder rose and delivery hit his stance.

On Thursday, Smith returned to the position of Australian captain for the first time since the exclusion of Pat Cummins, the 2018 sandpaper scandal in South Africa. Cummins was considered to be in close contact with a positive COVID-19 incident when he dined at a restaurant in Adelaide on the eve of the match.

Smith became Australia’s third captain in three tests. Tim Paine, who replaced Smith as test captain after the South African sandpaper scandal, resigned last month after being investigated for sending an inappropriate text to a colleague four years ago.