2015 The Ashes England Vs Australia Fourth Test Match At Trent Bridge Thursday August 06- 10,2015

      

 

England won the First Test Match at Cardiff by 169 Runs and lead the 5-Matche Series 1-0

It has been 14 years for Australia to have won a test series in England

Australia have had a great 2015 so far.

A tri series (Australia,England and India)win at home was followed by a World Cup win. Then the Kangaroos simply massacred the West Indians in the Caribbean.

Ashes Result Summary
 

Total Tests = 336
Australia 138, England 105, Draws 93.
In Australia = 175
Australia 91, England 57, Draws 27.
In England = 161
England 48, Australia 47, Draws 66.

Australia and England have played 77 Ashes series till now, with Australia winning 37 of them and England 32 while 8 finished as draws.

Interestingly, both teams have whitewashed each other 3 times

The Last  Four Ashes Series Results

• 2013-14 in Australia -Australia beats England 5-0

• 2013 in England - England won the series 3-0 with wins at Trent Bridge,Lord's and Riverside Ground,Durham and the matches at the Old Trafford and Th Oval drawn

• 2010-11 in Australia -  England won the series 3–1 with wins at ,Adelaidw,MCG and Sydney,drawing the Brisbane Test and losing theTest at Perth

• 2009 in England -England won the series 2-1 with wins at Lord's and The Oval,drawing the two test matches at - Cardiff and  Edgbaston and losing the test match at Headingly,Leeds

2015 The Ashes Series Result

First Test Match @ Cardiff July 08-11,2015
England 430 and 289
Australia 308 and 242
Match Result -England won by 169 Runs
MOM - Joe Root for his 134 and 60  and 2/28(6 Overs in the 2nd innings


Second Test Match @ Lord's July 16-19,2015
Australia 566/8 Declared and 254/2 Declared
England 312 and 103
Match Result - Australia won by 405 Runs
MOM - Steve Smith for his 215 and 58 Runs

Third Test Match @Edgbaston,Birmingham July 29 - 31,2015
Australia 136 and 265
England  281 and 124/2
Match Result - England won by 8 wickets
MOM - Steven Finn(England )for his 2/38(10 Overs)and 6/79(21 Overs)

Fourth Test Match @ Trent Bridge Aug 06-08,2015
Australia 60 and 253
England 391/9 Declared 
Match REsult -England won by 78 Runs
MOM - Stuart Broad(England)

 

Three Test matches have been concluded in the Ashes series so far and none of them has been a 5-day affair. 

The first and the second Tests finished within the first four days, while the third Test was even shorter as it was concluded inside three days. 

If the first and the second Test matches were dominated by England and Australia respectively, the third Test was once again dominated by the English side

This makes the 4^th Test at Trent Bridge starting Thursday even more interesting.Australia will have to come up with their best cricket at Trent Bridge. Even as the English are hungry for a series win, the Aussies will be eager to take the series to a fifth Test decider.

England have won 5 of the last 6 Test Matches at Trent Bridge with One Draw Vs India in 2014

England's first three wins of 2015 have each been followed by a defeat, and after victory at Edgbaston that sequence now spans seven matches

Inconsistent England
Opponent	Result	Margin	Venue
West Indies	Won	Nine wickets	St George's
West Indies	Lost	Five wickets	Bridgetown
New Zealand	Won	124 runs	Lord's
New Zealand	Lost	199 runs	Headingley
Australia	Won	169 runs	Cardiff
Australia	Lost	405 runs	Lord's
Australia	Won	Eight wickets	Edgbaston

Trent Bridge Statistics

England's Mike Atherton has the most runs with 1,083 in 11 Tests at an average of 60.16, including five centuries  

James Anderson has the most wickets with 53 in eight matches, including six five-wicket hauls

Former Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan holds the best figures in an innings with 8-70 in 2006

 The highest score at the ground is England's 658-8 declared against Australia in 1938

Playing at his home ground, Broad needs one more wicket to become only the fifth England bowler to take 300 Test wickets

Day One Thursday August 06,2015

Squads

Australia: David Warner, Chris Rogers, Steven Smith, Shaun Marsh, Michael Clarke (C), Adam Voges, Peter Nevill (WK), Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon  


England: Alastair Cook (C), Adam Lyth, Ian Bell, Joe Root, Jonathan Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (WK), Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad, Mark Wood, Steven Finn

England won the toss and chose to field

England Dismiss Australia for 60 Runs as Stuart Broad took 8/15 in 9.3 Overs(career best figures)

 

England needed only 100 minutes to rout Australia for 60 in 18.3 Overs

 

Also Stuart Broad joins the 300+ Wicket Taker in Test Cricket

 

Stuar Broad struck five times in his first four overs, claiming his 300th Test victim with the third ball of the morning when he had opener Chris Rogers caught at first slip by Alastair Cook for a duck.

Stuart Broad claimed his 300th test victim with the third ball

Stuart Broad now has taken taken 307 wickets in 83 Test Matches(151 Innings)

8/15(9.3 Overs)in an Innings Career Best Bowling Figures Vs Australia @ Trent Bridge on Aug 06,2015

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	5	10
JM Anderson	2003-2015	107	201	23826	12134	413	7/43	11/71	29.38	3.05	57.6	18	2
IT Botham	1977-1992	102	168	21815	10878	383	8/34	13/106	28.40	2.99	56.9	27	4
RGD Willis	1971-1984	90	165	17357	8190	325	8/43	9/92	25.20	2.83	53.4	16	0
FS Trueman	1952-1965	67	127	15178	6625	307	8/31	12/119	21.57	2.61	49.4	17	3
SCJ Broad	2007-2015	83*	151	17282	8888	307	8/15	11/121	28.95	3.08	56.2	14	2

Australia scored 60/10 in 18.3 Overs
Fall of Wickets(Australia)
Chris Rogers                  00(3 Balls) - 0.3 Over -  first duck in 46-innings career in Test cricket.
Steve Smith                    06(3 Balls 4x1) - 0.6 Over)
David Warner                 00(2 Balls) -1.2 Over
Shaun Marsh                   00(4 Balls) - 2.4 Over
Adam Viges                     01(4 Balls) - 4.1 Over
Michael Clarke                10(15 Balls 4x2) - 6.1 Over
Peter Nevill                      02(15 Balls) - 9.2 Over
Mitchell Starc                   01(8 Balls) -12.4 Over
Mitchell Johnson               13(25 Balls 4x2) - 12.6 Over
Nathan Lyon                     09(20 Balls 4x2) - 18.3 Over
Josh Hazzlewood              04*(15 Balls)
Wicket Takers(England)
Stuart Broad                8/15(9.3 Overs)
Mark Wood                 1/13(3 Overs)
Steven Finn                   1/21(6 Overs)

Australia were bowled for 60 Runs in 18.3 Overs - Quickest team bowled out in Test match

Left-handers Rogers and Warner became the first Australia openers to both fall for ducks in an Ashes Test innings since Arthur Morris and Jack Moroney at Brisbane in 1950.

 

Australia's lowest Test Scores

• 36 v England, Birmingham, 1902.
• 42 v England, Sydney, 1888
• 44 v England, The Oval, 1896
• 47 v South Africa, Cape Town, 2011
• 53 v England, Lord's, 1896
• 58 v England, Brisbane, 1936
• 60 v England, Lord's, 1888
• 60 v England, Trent Bridge,Nottingham Thursday August 06,2015

Cheapest 8-wicket hauls in Test Cricket:

• 8-7: G Lohmann, England v SA, 1896
• 8-11: J Briggs, England v SA, 1889
• 8-15: S Broad, England v Aus,Trent Bridge,Nottingham Thursday August 06,2015
• 8-24: G McGrath, Aus v Pak, 2004

At lunch England were 13/0
Adam Lyth      08*
Alastair Cook 04*

At close of play on Day One,England were 274/4 in 65 Overs
Fall of Wickets(England)
Adam Lyth                   14(28 Balls 4x2)
Ian Bell                         01(6 Balls)
Alastair Cook               43(87 Balls 4x7)
Jonny Bairstow             74(105 Balls 4x12)-5th Test Fifty in 16 Test Matches(26 Innings)
Joe Root                      124*(158 Balls 4x19 and 6x1)-8th Ton in 31 Test Matches(56 Innings)

Mark Wood                   02*(10 Balls)
England lead by 214 runs with 6 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

England 2-1 up in the series and without their leading bowler James Anderson, needed only 18.3 overs to run through the touring side who collapsed to their joint sixth-lowest Ashes total

Jonny Bairstow(74) and Joe Root(89) put on 173 Runs in 34.1 Overs for the 4th Wicket

Joe Root completed a 128-ball century, his eighth in Test cricket and second of the series following his 134 in England's 169-run win in the first Test in Cardiff, when he cut occasional medium-pacer Warner for his 17th four.

For the second match in a row England, 2-1 up in the five-match series and needing one more win to regain the Ashes, had all but assured themselves of victory with their first-day performance following last week's eight-wicket success at Edgbaston

'Embarrassed, Demolished, Humiliated': Australia media slam team after Ashes rout

 

Australia's total -- with extras the top score on 14 -- was the lowest by either side in an Ashes innings since England were dismissed for 52 at The Oval in 1948. Australia's stunning dismissal for 60 runs on day one of the fourth Ashes Test prompted incredulous headlines in local newspapers on Friday along with calls for the citizenship to be stripped from the entire team. "What a disgrace," was a front-page headline on Sydney's Daily Telegraph, above a picture of embattled Australia captain Michael Clarke. "We'll let you choose the headline: Embarrassed, Demolished, Humiliated," the tabloid offered on its back page. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was asked whether the team should have their citizenship revoked in the wake of the rout. "Yes, that has crossed my mind," she quipped. The brevity of Australia's innings prompted derision on social media, with Antony Green, an election analyst with state broadcaster ABC, noting the entire ball-by-ball summary could fit in the 140-character limit of a tweet on Twitter.   The Australian newspaper described the Nottingham nightmare as a "Trent Bridge Horror Show" Melbourne's The Age newspaper said England had humiliated Australia "on a first day that will live in infamy".  England's lead of 214 Runs at the end of day one, the third-highest ever after the first day of a Test The only higher ones have been 286, by South Africa against Zimbabwe in Cape town in 2005 It took Australia to lose their first five wickets only 25 Balls, the quickest any team has lost five wickets since 2002 (prior to which ball-by-ball data is not available). Stuard Broad too wickets in the first over of the match an there has been only two instances prior to this -Irfan Pathan(India)Vs Pakistan in 2006 and Chris Cairs(NZ)Vs  England in 2002

   

Day Two Friday August 07,2015

Resuming from 274/4,England scored 391/9 Declared

Fall of Wickets(England)

Joe Root                           130(176 Balls 4x19 and 6x1)

Mark Wood                       28(32 Balls 4x5)

Jos Butler                          12(11 Balls 4x3)

Ben Stokes                         05(10 Balls 4x1)

Moeen Ali                          38(24 Balls 4x7 and 6x1)

Stuart Broad                     24*(29 Balls 4x2 and 6x1)

Steven Finn                        00*(8 Balls)

Wicket Takers(Australia)

Mitchell Starc              6/111(27 Overs) - Career Best Figures

Josh Hazzlewood             2/97(24 Overs)

Mitchell Johnson             1/102(21.2 Overs)

 

England lead its1st Innings with a lead of 331 Runs 

Australia scored 241/7 in 62.2 Overs in the 2nd Innings

Fall of Wickets(Australia)

Chris Rogers                 52(83 Balls 4x10)-14th Test Match Fifty in 24 Tests(47 Innings)

 David Warner               64(74 Balls 4x9 and 6x2)18th Test Match Fifty in 42 Tests(80 Innings)

Shaun Marsh                  02(6 Balls)

Steve Smith                    05(9 Balls 4x1)

Michael Clarke               13(37 Balls 4x1)

Peter Nevill                     17(57 Balls 4x2)

Mitchell Johnson              05(16 Balls 4x1)

Adam Voges                    48*(91 Balls 4x7)

Mitchell Starc                   00*(4 Balls)

At close of Play on Day Two,Australia trail by 90 runs with 3 wickets remaining

Australia made a good start with Chris Rogers(52) and David Warner(48) adding 113 Runs for the 1st wicket 

Ben Stokes struck three times in three overs  to remove Chris Rogers,David Warner an Shaun Marsh in the 23.6;25.6 and 27.6 Overs respectively

Pace bowling all-rounder Ben Stokes took 5/35(16 Overs) including a spell of three for four in 13 balls

 
Ben Stokes salutes the crowd after bowling England to the brink of Ashes victory, England v Australia, 4th Investec Test, Trent Bridge, 2nd day, August 7, 2015

			Day Three Saturday August 08,2015 Resuming from 241/7 Australia scored 253/10 in 72.4 Overs  Fall of Wickets(Australia) Mitchell Starc              00(17 Balls) Josh Hazzlewood         00(10 Balls) Nathan Lyon                04(12 Balls 4x1) Adam Voges                 51*(118 Balls 4x7) - Maiden Test Match Fifty in his 6the Test(9 Innings) Wicket Takers(England) Ben Stokes                 6/36(21 Overs) Mark Wood                3/69(17.4 Overs) Stuart Broad               1/36(16 Overs) Match Result - England won by an innings and 78 Runs MOM - Stuart Broad(England) Series Result -  England led the 5-match series 3-1       Ben Stokes completed his five-wicket haul by dismissing Mitchell Johnson Mark Wood put the seal on England's thumping win getting the wikcet of Nathan Lyon bowled England regained the Ashes 10.2 overs into the third day at Trent Bridge as they completed a thumping win by an innings and 78 runs in the fourth Investec Test.  It was 599 days since England fell apart in an Ashes whitewash in Australia.  The rebuilding has been painful, but Alastair Cook's young England team has beaten an experienced Australian side that will now be dismantled.  The England players were filmed toasting the victory in the dressing room with champagne