The Independent - 05.09.2019

(Tuis.) #1
MONDAY 5 AUGUST 2019

England end fourth day in grim


fight for survival


England 375 & 12-0
Australia 284 & 487-7

Ben Stokes reacts as the hosts lose their grip on the first Test (Getty)


JONATHAN LIEW


AT EDGBASTON


Moeen Ali was the last England player to leave the field. He had been fielding at long-on, at the
Birmingham end of the ground, when James Pattinson smashed the six that ended Australia’s innings. And
so, as his team-mates scuttled back to the safety of the dressing room, Moeen had to trudge fully 120 yards


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