England Playing 11 Lord’s Test: The second Test match of the Ashes series between England and Australia will be played tomorrow i.e. Tuesday 28 June at Lord’s. The host team, which lost the first Test, has announced its playing XI a day in advance for the second Test.
Moeen Ali will not play in Lord’s Test. England has dropped him from the playing eleven. Please tell that Moeen is not playing the second test due to a finger injury. In his place, young fast bowler Josh Tong got a chance. Tong took five wickets in his debut test.
England’s playing XI for the second Test- Ben Duckett, Jack Crawley, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Josh Tongue and James Anderson.
head to head record
If we look at the record against each other in Test format between England and Australia, they have played 357 matches so far. In this, the England team has won 110 matches while Australia has won 151 matches. 37 matches have been played between the two teams at the Lord’s Cricket Ground. In this, England has won only in 7 while Australia has won in 15 matches.
pitch report
Talking about the pitch of this second match played at Lord’s Cricket Ground, it proves to be much better for fast bowling with batting. Here the average score around 300 has been seen in the first 2 innings. The effect of weather is also seen on this pitch. For this reason, 2 experienced fast bowlers of England, Stuart Broad and James Anderson have got to see amazing on this ground so far.
Possible playing XI of Australia- David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Alex Carey (wicketkeeper), Cameron Green, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland.
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