The England team, which won the World Cup for the first time in the Lord’s ground on 16 July, made an embarrassing record on the grounds of the same Lord’s on July 24.
Two years ago, Ireland got Test status of by the ICC, Ireland started playing the first Test against England on Wednesday. On the very first day of the match being played at Lord’s, Ireland surprised everyone including world champions England with their bowling.
After winning the toss, the whole team of England came out to bat at 85 runs in 23.4 overs. At the same time, the England team also got an embarrassing record. England played only 142 balls during their innings, which is the shortest innings played in home in their history so far.
Apart from this, this was the first time in England’s history that the entire team was already out in the Test before lunch. Earlier, England had lost seven wickets for 43 runs, and they were close to making their lowest score, but England’s team survived a more embarrassing record with the help of Sam Curran’s 18 and Olly Stone’s 19 runs.
England won the toss and chose to bat first and Denly top-scored with 23 runs, while Tim Murtagh took 5 wickets for Ireland.
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