England fast bowler Jofra Archer yesterday marked his Test debut with a wicket as Australia suffered a top-order collapse at Lord’s.
Australia lost three wickets for 11 runs on the way to reaching 80-4 when rain forced an early lunch on the third day of the second Test.
That left Australia 178 runs behind England’s first-innings 258.
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Archer, on the ground where he bowled the Super Over that saw England seal a World Cup final win over New Zealand last month, had fine figures of one wicket for 18 runs in 13 overs, but Australia star batsman Steve Smith was still there on 13 not out, with Matthew Wade unbeaten on nought.
Australia, 1-0 up in the five-match series after their 251-run win in the first Test at Edgbaston, resumed on 30-1 having seen Stuart Broad dismiss David Warner cheaply for the third time in as many innings this series.
Play resumed under gloomy skies, the floodlights on at full beam, with conditions difficult for batting.
Cameron Bancroft was five not out and Usman Khawaja 18 not out following a lively opening spell late on Thursday by Archer, in for the injured James Anderson, England’s all-time leading Test wicket-taker.
Khawaja struck two offside fours in as many balls when first-change Chris Woakes dropped short.
However, England altered the momentum of the morning with two wickets for no runs in four balls as Australia’s 60-1 became 60-3.
Archer had his first Test wicket when he nipped one back sharply to have Bancroft LBW for 13.
The 24-year-old Sussex paceman’s celebrations were put on hold as Bancroft reviewed, but replays showing the ball would have clipped the top of the stumps meant Aleem Dar saw his decision upheld.
There were some boos as Smith, fresh from twin hundreds at Edgbaston in his first Test following a ball-tampering ban, came into bat.
He could only watch as Woakes, with England at last bowling over the wicket to Khawaja, induced an outside edge to wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow that saw the left-hander caught behind for 36.
Australia were 71-4 when Broad had Travis Head LBW for seven, although England had to review Dar’s original not out verdict, with technology indicating that the ball would have smashed into the left-hander’s middle and leg stumps.
All-rounder Ben Stokes thought he had Wade LBW for a duck, but the batsman’s review revealed the ball had pitched outside leg stump.
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