While the fourth day of ongoing Ashes Test was highlighted by Pat Cummins‘ double-blow and the banter between Jofra Archer and Matthew Wade, Stuart Broad was courteous towards Australian batsman Marnus Labuschagne, who was dismissed by Archer in the 10th over of Australia’s second innings.
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Broad, politely, showed a bye-bye signal to Labuschagne who had to walk back after the replays showed that he was dismissed on the basis of umpire’s call. Here is the video of Broad’s courteous send-off to Labuschagne –
Lovin’ @StuartBroad8 wave to Marnus Labuschagne as he graciously departs!#Ashes19 pic.twitter.com/wfokHWfg1j
— Matthew Fairbairn (@mrjfairbairn) September 7, 2019
The Australian batsman was confident of overturning Kumar Dharamasena’s decision but replays showed that it was umpire’s call. Since Dharamasena had given him out, Labuschagne had to walk back to the pavilion.
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His wicket meant Australia lost their third wicket on 24 but in the end, the visitors posted a total of 186/6 on the board in 42.5 overs, asking England to chase down 383.
Coming out to bat in the chase with less than 10 overs remaining in the day, England suffered two jitters. Pat Cummins got the first wicket of Rory Burns on the third delivery of the opening over. On the next ball, England skipper Joe Root missed the ball and got bowled to register his third duck in the ongoing series.
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After twin blows, Jason Roy and Joe Denly survived next six overs without giving away any wicket. On the final day, Australia need eight wickets to retain the Ashes. On the other hand, England have to either score 365 runs or survive for more than 90 overs.
They did pull off a heist in the previous Test, where Ben Stokes put up 76 runs for the final wicket with Jack Leach but England would hope not to get into a similar situation in Manchester.