{"id":317918,"date":"2023-07-21T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=317918"},"modified":"2023-07-21T23:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T23:01:30","slug":"brutal-bairstow-stuns-with-absolutely-smoking-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=317918","title":{"rendered":"Brutal Bairstow stuns with 'absolutely smoking' six"},"content":{"rendered":"

England produced another dominant\ufeff display on day three of the fourth Ashes Test<\/a>, building a lead of 275 runs before taking a clump of wickets.<\/p>\n

When Marnus Labuschagne (44) and Mitchell Marsh (one) reached stumps at Old Trafford, the Australians were 4-113 and trailing by 162.\ufeff<\/p>\n

A day after Zak Crawley blasted 189 from just 182 balls<\/a>, Jonny Bairstow pummelled 99 not out from 81, before Mark Wood captured the crucial wickets of David Warner, Steve Smith and Travis Head.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Watch the day three highlights package in the video player above!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong>Aussies' desperate hope after Bairstow, Wood carnage\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

AS IT HAPPENED:<\/strong> Fourth Ashes Test, day three at Old Trafford\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Fatty stunned as Bronco binned for 'dangerous' act\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Big-hitting Bairstow's stunning six<\/h2>\n

Perhaps the most incredible shot of Jonny Bairstow'\ufeffs innings was the one that took him to his half-century.<\/p>\n

The England gloveman smacked a short-arm jab for six over deep square leg off the bowling of Mitchell Starc.<\/p>\n

"Absolutely smoking pull shot," said\ufeff former Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik in commentary.<\/p>\n

\"Ridiculous\u00a0shot\u00a0brings\u00a0up\u00a0Bairstow\u00a050\"<\/p>\n

Here's every wicket that fell on day three<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ben Stokes 51 (74): b Pat Cummins\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Cummins<\/p>\n

Every ball of the Ashes will be live, free and exclusive on<\/strong> 9Now<\/strong><\/a>, and if you miss any of the action you can find full highlights and exclusive replays after every day's play<\/strong> here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Harry Brook 61 (100): c Mitchell Starc, b Josh Hazlewood\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Brook<\/p>\n

Chris Woakes 0 (1): c Alex Carey, b Josh Hazlewood\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Hazlewood<\/p>\n

Mark Wood 6 (8): b Josh Hazlewood\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Hazlewood<\/p>\n

Stuart Broad 7 (10): c & b Josh Hazlewood\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Hazlewood<\/p>\n

James Anderson 5 (18): lbw Cameron Green\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Bairstow<\/p>\n

Usman Khawaja 18 (34): c Jonny Bairstow, b Mark Wood\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Wood<\/p>\n

David Warner 28 (53): b Chris Woakes\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Woakes<\/p>\n

Steve Smith 17 (38): c Jonny Bairstow, b Mark Wood\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Wood<\/p>\n

Travis Head 1 (7): c Ben Duckett, b Mark Wood\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Head<\/p>\n

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England produced another dominant\ufeff display on day three of the fourth Ashes Test, building a lead of 275 runs before taking a clump of wickets. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317932,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317918\/revisions\/317932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/317920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}