England’s wicketkeeper-batter Jos Buttler delayed the inevitable with a gritty knock in the second Ashes Test against Australia but got out in the most unfortunate manner possible. After his dismissal, the tourists lost all hopes of a draw and lost the contest by 275 runs.
Buttler tried his bes꧅t to save the game for England, playing a spectacular rearguard inning of 26 but got out hit-wicket after facing 207 ballܫs on the final day.
Buttler was facing a delivery by Aussie pacer Jhye Richardson when he accidentally trod on his own stumps.
“You couldn’t write a story like this, could you?. We were just saying he [Buttler] has been getting deep in his crease, and he has got deep in his crease, alright. He’s played back and taken off, and wow,” former Australia international Mark Waugh said o✤n air during his c🧜ommentary stint with Fox Sports.
“What a way to get out. It is a cruel way to get out. It is a cruel game sometimes cricket,” he added.
Buttler stitched a 61-run partnership for the seventh wicket with the more free-flowing Chris Woakes to keep England eyeing for a great escape. But all their hopes faded once Woakes was cleaned up by Richardson in the second session and dipped further when Ollie Robinson (8 off 39) fell off a Nathan Lyon delivery shortly before the tea break.
England were all-but eliminated when Buttler clipped the stumpღs with his foot.
Richard🌸son was the pick of the bowlers for Australia, bagging 5/42 in tꦇhe fourth innings.
Here is the video of Buttler’s dismissal:
What a way to end an epic innings! 😲
That's the first time Buttler has been dismissed hit wicket in his 193-innings first class career
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau)
