After England’s batting collapse within the morning session gave Australia a 91-run lead, Khawaja led the guests’ within the second innings, ending the day at 130 for two.
England’s bogeyman Steve Smith was on six when the rain introduced the day’s play to an finish.
In distinction to England’s swashbuckling and at occasions reckless method with the bat, Khawaja and fellow opener David Warner placed on 63 slowly and methodically earlier than Warner was trapped lbw on 25 by a ball nipping in from Josh Tongue within the twenty fifth over.
Day 3: As It Happened
While it’s the first time since 1971 that two sides’ opening partnerships have scored greater than 50 within the first three innings of a check match, the 2 groups’ approaches to the job might hardly be extra totally different.
Warner’s 25 got here off 76 balls, a glacial tempo in contrast with England’s Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett within the first innings.
At the opposite finish for Australia, Khawaja has confronted greater than 700 balls within the first two exams of this Ashes collection.
The guests will look to set England as massive a goal as they will as they bid for a 2-0 lead within the collection – the one facet to efficiently chase down a fourth-innings goal of greater than 300 at Lord’s had been West Indies in 1984.
England suffered a minor collapse earlier on Friday, including simply 47 to their in a single day rating for his or her final six wickets, hitting 325 in reply to Australia’s first-innings complete of 416.
Captain Ben Stokes (17) fell to the second ball of the day, swishing at a shortish one from Mitchell Starc solely to get an edge on it, with Cameron Green reaching as much as his proper to take a tough catch within the gully.
Harry Brook added 5 runs to his in a single day rating to achieve his first 50 in Ashes cricket however then tried to swipe one other Starc ball down the bottom moments later, as a substitute slicing it excessive into the air to Pat Cummins for a easy catch at cowl.
Jonny Bairstow (16) chipped a easy follow stroke off Josh Hazlewood to Cummins at mid-on, and Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue all fell cheaply, with even part-time spinner Travis Head bagging two wickets for Australia.
Starc was the toast of the bowlers, nonetheless, taking three wickets for 33 runs within the morning, having been hit for 55 and not using a wicket on Thursday afternoon.
“England were in a commanding position and didn’t recognise they were on top. They created the risk themselves,” their former one-day captain Eoin Morgan informed Sky Sports.
(With inputs from Reuters)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com