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England Jack Crawley recovered from his second duck in as many days to seal the victory in the first Ashes Test in Perth.
Brydon Carse took the final Australian wicket in the opening half hour, leaving the hosts 40 runs behind after being bowled out for 132. At lunch the score had reached 99 runs. ben duckett And Ollie Pope At the crease.
And the dominance of the bat and the ball continued as Crawley’s nightmare start to the series continued.
to be edged Mitchell Starc After slipping on the sixth ball of the match, the opener saw history repeating itself as he was once again out without opening the account in the first over.
This time it was Starc’s fifth ball, in which Crawley hit a checked drive and saw the Australian leap forward and take a brilliant one-handed catch. Crawley was given a stay in execution after the TV umpire checked that the ball had not been grounded, but his fate was confirmed as the first England opening batsman to score a pair since Michael Atherton in 1999.
The pace of the game eventually slowed as Duckett and Pope scored 28 and 24 not out respectively in the next 14 overs to tighten England’s grip on the low-scoring match.
Duckett started aggressively, attacking Scott Boland and spraying a pair of thick edges for four, while Pope was beaten on the outside edge half a dozen times during a nervous period, leaving him repeatedly tempted outside off.
But as England progressed, the runs kept coming, including five overthrows in the space of two balls from Brendan Doggett. Australia thought they had wrapped up the session when Boland won an LBW decision against Duckett in the last over, but the left-hander successfully overturned it on review.