Cricket Drama: Adelaide Encounter
With the Headbutt galvanizing the stage, Australia setting up an off-field drama apart from their usual verbals on the field.
England’s woes are stepping up with Moeen Ali’s finger injury. 12th man being pacer Craig Overton, England might be forced to use Joe Root as the fort-line off spinner.
With Australia’s confidence piling up with every incident towards the next Day-Night trigger, they may well not be aware of nightmare which England can produce with their formidable batting lineup.
As a result of three Ashes debutantes, James Vince, Mark Stoneman and Dawid Malan impressing with half centuries each in first innings, England will try to setup an impressive first innings score along with their experienced batting line-up.
Seamers Chris Wokes, Jake Ball/Craig Overton has to find some useful tactics to disturb stability of the inform batsman, so as to help the pace duo of James Anderson and Stuart Broad gaining the important wickets of Australian batsman.
Wicket keeper batsman Jonny Bairstow and seam all-rounder Chris Woakes has to spend more time on the crease to ensure they provide that crucial 70–100 runs to the total.
With the impressive performance set by Aussie pacers in second innings of Gabba, they could well pierce through England’s top order batting lineup with Adelaide supporting good seam movement off the pitch.
As what to expect for, Australia will surely try to dominate through the heat that they created in the first test. And England will try to dismiss key Australian batsman like Steve Smith(averaging 72 as test captain), David Warner and other inform batsman at the peak earliest to collapse the batting rthym of the Australian line-up.
