England vs Ireland LIVE: Test cricket score and updates as England trail by 20 runs at stumps
England are 152-1 in response to Ireland’s 172 all out
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Your support makes all the difference.England kicked off the summer a superb performance on the opening day of their four-day test match against Ireland. With the clouds hanging overhead in this morning Ben Stokes won the toss and elected to bowl.
In the absence of James Anderson, Stuart Broad led the attack and gave England the early initiative reducing the visitors to 19-3. James McCollum (36) dug in but couldn’t stop the host from running rampant. Jack Leach was backed once again by his captain and was rewarded with three wickets while Matt Potts chipped in with a couple but it was Broad’s day. He took 5-51 to get on the Lord’s honours board as Ireland were dismissed for just 172.
In response England’s opening pair made hay in the early evening sunshine. Zak Crawley rode his luck on his way to 56 before chipping a drive back to Fionn Hand who claimed his maiden test wicket for Ireland. Ben Duckett (60*) and Ollie Pope (29*) saw England safely through to the end of the day with the deficit just 20 runs.
Relive the action from Day One at Lord’s as England take on Ireland:
England 88-0, Crawley 43, Duckett 43, Adair 0-38 (3), trail by 84
Zak Crawley launches at a short, wide ball but only gets an inside edge. He’s lucky it doesn’t collide with the stumps as the ball races away for four.
Adair looks to correct his line but strays too straight and Crawley turns him back to fine leg for four more.
A groundhog day moment then occurs for the bowler as he draws Crawley into another loose shot but this inside edge results in a third boundary!
14 runs come from the over.
England 74-0, Crawley 29, Duckett 43, Adair 0-24 (3), trail by 98
Mark Adair’s first spell wasn’t great. He found the challenge of bowling to the right-handed Zak Crawley and left-handed Ben Duckett a little tricky.
He’s brought back on and will need to back-up Graham Hume’s tight lines.
England 74-0, Crawley 29, Duckett 43, Hand 0-25 (4), trail by 98
England’s deficit dips under 100 as Ben Duckett works Fionn Hand away for a couple of twos. He takes four from the over and closes in on a half century.
England 70-0, Crawley 29, Duckett 39, Hume 0-24 (6), trail by 102
Graham Hume has found his rhythm and with a more protective field, he’s managing to slow England’s run rate down. Just one run comes from his sixth over.
England are comfortable though. There’s not a great deal of threat from the Irish bowlers.
England 69-0, Crawley 29, Duckett 38, Hand 0-21 (3), trail by 103
A false shot from Crawley sees him fizz an inside edge past his own stumps for one. Fionn Hand was excited for a moment as he drew Crawley into the drive.
A leg stump half-volley from Hand is flicked away by Duckett who continues on his merry way. There are fielders out on the legside boundary now so he only collects a couple.
England 65-0, Crawley 28, Duckett 35, Hume 0-23 (5), trail by 107
Duckett has got on top of anything that has strayed onto his legs. He’s punching everything away through midwicket and seemingly earns at least two every time.
Andrew Balbirnie now plugs that gap with a fielder and Graham Hume records the first over of England’s innings that didn’t yield a boundary.
England 63-0, Crawley 28, Duckett 33, Hand 0-17 (2), trail by 109
Oh that is superb from Zak Crawley.
Hand sends down a floaty half-volley that Crawley nails between the cover and mid-off fielders in what is the best shot of England’s innings.
Crawley doesn’t stop there and plays a late punch off the back foot to record consecutive boundaries.
England 55-0, Crawley 20, Duckett 33, Hume 0-21 (4), trail by 117
There’s still around an hour of play left to go today. If England continue at this pace, they’ll almost catch up to Ireland’s first innings total before the end of play.
England 53-0, Crawley 20, Duckett 32, Hume 0-20 (3.2), trail by 119
50 up for England! It’s taken Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley just 7.2 overs to get to fifty as Duckett latches onto another loose ball outside off stump.
He slices a square cut away for four more.
England 49-0, Crawley 20, Duckett 28, Hand 0-9 (1), trail by 123
Ireland need to gain a bit of control back. Mark Adair is hooked off and replaced with Fionn Hand.
Hand angles his first ball across Duckett and almost finds the edge as Duckett hangs out his bat and misses it. The next ball is too short which allows Duckett to rock back and cut Hand through point for four.
There are more runs for Duckett as Hand overcompensates and sends one down leg. Duckett swivels and guides the ball away to the fine leg boundary.
Nine runs come from the over.
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