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The highly anticipated and the oldest cricket rivalry of the oldest format of the game, The Ashes has been kicked off between the two arch-rivals England and Australia with the first Test of The Ashes 2023 at the Edgbaston in Birmingham. The hosts England won the flip of the coin and decided to bat first in the first of the five-match Test series.
Apart from England’s steady start in the first session till lunch, the dismissal of England opener Zak Crawley attracted the headlines as Australia didn’t go for DRS after the field umpire denied the clear edge of Crawley’s bat when he was caught by Alex Carey.
Although Crawley couldn’t carry and capitalize on this advantage for a long time and he got out after being caught almost in the same manner by Aussie wicketkeeper-batter Alex Carey. It was the time when the visitors’ side didn’t fail to go up the stairs and successfully got the wicket of Zak Crawley who was gradually becoming a danger for Australia.
Subsequently, the cricket fans also took to Twitter and reacted with a lot of different kinds of reactions on this controversial turn-around of things just around the dismissal of Zak Crawley two times in the match. Some of the fans also trolled the umpires for their less-vigilant attitude.
Here’s how fans reacted:
Review choro bhai no one appealed
— Md Haroon (@Muneerharoon24) June 16, 2023
They are playing with a batsman's attitude and the opposition has not even a clue which way the ball goes after the bowler release the ball that's simply a good tactic to unset the momentum of the bowlers
— Cric Fan (@Cricketfan2ict) June 16, 2023
Jo ashes haar jata ha wohi wtc sa bahir ho jata ha 😂😂
— 𝕭𝖎𝖑𝖆𝖑𝕽𝖆𝖏𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖙 (@BilalRajpoot005) June 16, 2023
That umpire Erasmus has to be blind or deaf to give Crawley’s wicket a not out.
— Amy (@AmyAnthony2003) June 16, 2023
Nevertheless CRAWLEY’S GONNEEEEEE 💪 #Ashes2023
Aussies under the pump.#Bazball #Ashes2023 #ENGvAUS
— WestManCOLOR (@arindamchakrab) June 16, 2023
@ICC can we please scrap independent umpires this contest deserves the best officials and I will take Kettleborough Gaffney & Illingworth over these 2 deaf blind guys every time #Ashes2023
— Mark Daniels (@ManUGiggsfan) June 16, 2023
Lmao Australia
— Ayãn ✨ (@wayward_ayan) June 16, 2023
Be attentive on the field now
Reminded me of first ball by Starc pic.twitter.com/LnAwszOMVf
— NIKHIL (@nikhil_nsu) June 16, 2023
So weird
— Tej (@b_tej11) June 16, 2023
Zak Crawley Edged it but no real appeal. pic.twitter.com/teFnZRSmeU
— CricketGully (@thecricketgully) June 16, 2023
Oh dear...
— Fox Cricket (@FoxCricket) June 16, 2023
It looks like Australia missed an outside edge, and Zak Crawley gets an extra life on 40 😯
LIVE 👉 https://t.co/lL5EuEUFEv#Ashes pic.twitter.com/dfRCVzSiYe
— Brendon Corlett 🇳🇿 (@BrendonCorlett1) June 16, 2023
How did carey not hear or see it??🤓
— Jack Madden (@madden_jac98028) June 16, 2023
Speaking of the ongoing action of the match, Zak Crawley had scored 61 runs with seven boundaries before getting dismissed off Scott Boland. Other than him, the number three batter Ollie Pope also scored 31 runs.
England have started their innings after the lunch break; they have scored 128 runs for the loss of three wickets in 28.1 overs. At the time of filling this copy, former skipper and batting superstar, Joe Root was there in the middle on the individual score of 22 runs alongside Harry Brook who is currently on the score of 2 runs.