Joe Root injury adds up to England’s misery as Australia needs 6 Wickets to win the Adelaide test

Australia was ruthless as England is on the verge of another loss. So, the equation is simple, England needs 386 runs with 6 wickets remaining to win the Adelaide Test. Australia needs 6 wickets to win the test match and go 2-0 up in the series.

England started day 4 on a positive note as they struck early as Anderson and Broad got a wicket apiece. Soon, the Australian captain, Steve Smith was sent back by Ollie Robinson. Australia could only manage 10 runs and had already lost 3 wickets in the morning session. Up stepped Marnus Labuchagne has been gifted with resilience and grit like no other batsmen. He started to wear off the English bowlers scoring just 2 runs off 36 balls in his early phase of the innings. He made a healthy partnership with Travis head who also quick half-century smashing 51 off just 54 balls to propel Australia to 173. Marnus Labuchagne was taken out by Malan after scoring 51 off 96 deliveries.

Cameron Green and Mitchell Green contributed quick runs as Australia declared at 230-9. England was given a massive target of 468 runs.

England got off to a very poor start as their opener failed yet again. Haseeb Hameed knicked it to Alex Carey off Jhye Richardson in the second over of the innings. Dawid Malan and Rory Burns were starting to look Comfortable when Michael Neser took Malan’s wicket. Rory Burns also gave away a regulation catch to Steve Smith off Jhye Richardson. The English captain was struggling with an injury and Mitchell Starc took it is a responsibility to take him out of his Misery on the last ball of the day. England are reduced to 82-4 with Joe Root gone, Ben Stokes has a daunting task ahead of him to save the test.