Australia vs England Live Cricket Score, 2nd Ashes Test Day 1: ENG take on AUS in pink ball affair at the Gabba

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AUS vs ENG 2nd Ashes Test Live Cricket Score: Australia take on England at the Gabba. (AP)

Australia vs England Ashes 2nd Test Match Live Cricket Score Updates: England will hope for a better show with the bat when they take on Australia in a pink ball affair at the Gabba for the second Ashes Test on Thursday. In the Perth match, the England batters capitulated in both innings as Australia, courtesy of Mitchell Starc’s 10 wickets and Travis Head’s century, ran away with a 8-wicket win in a Test that lasted just 2 days.

Adapting to the day/night conditions at Gabba will not be child’s play and with Australia almost invincible in pink ball Tests, the mountain is a pretty steep one which England have to climb. The Aussies have won all the pink ball matches except one which was a shock defeat to West Indies last year. Except that, Australia have played 14 D/N Tests and have won 13 of them. England, meanwhile, haven’t won an Ashes test at the Gabba since 1986 and haven’t won a test on Australian soil since the 2010-11 series.

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What might work in England’s favour is that Australia will likely be without their regular skipper Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood. Both of them were absent from the first game too and England should have taken advantage of that but they didn’t. They are, however, unlikely to make the same mistake again.

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Mitchell Starc’s skills and Australia’s high winning percentage makes pink-ball Ashes Test a one-sided affair

The pink Kookaburra ball that gains a magenta lustre under the crimson Australian skies is a sight of dread for England. Thrice have they lost Ashes Tests to its malevolent shimmer, by bewildering margins of 120, 275 runs and 146 runs. The fourth exchange, that unfolds in Brisbane, in the cricket’s most fabled rivalry, is cast in the backdrop of a bruising defeat at Perth and the intimidating mastery of their adversaries with the pink ball.

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