'Sad & Hilarious at the same time' - Fans react as Harry Brook awkwardly loses his wicket to Nathan Lyon in Ashes 2023

The highly anticipated and oldest rivalry in Test cricket has been kicked off with its 2023 edition. Both teams are locking horns in the first of the five-match Ashes series at Edgbaston in Birmingham. England won the toss and decided to bat first at probably the batting-friendly turf of Edgbaston.

Apart from that, a moment from the first day of the match happened to attract the headlines of social media. It was none other than the dismissal of Harry Brook off the veteran Australian spinner Nathan Lyon in the 38^th over of the first England innings.

Harry Brook happened to nick the ball and it got tossed in the air, wicketkeeper-batter Alex Carey and the silly point fielder Marnus Labuschagne started trying to take the catch. But eventually, in a surprise for everyone, the ball went on to hit the stumps at the time when Brook was looking down towards the ground instead of looking around his height.

The video of this moment is also making rounds on social media within minutes of being shared on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Subsequently, cricket fans also came up with a lot of hilarious reactions to Harry Brook and the way he misjudged the moment resulting in his dismissal.

Here’s the video:

🤬 pic.twitter.com/Wuz8gFnPy8

— England's Barmy Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎺 (@TheBarmyArmy) June 16, 2023

Here’s how fans reacted:

Sad & Hilarious at the same time

— Hashim Tung 🇵🇰🇨🇦 (@hashim_tung) June 16, 2023

Didn't ubderstand why was he looking down and not moving at all?

— baked bean (@davidNotoff) June 16, 2023

I particularly liked Smith’s send off as if Lyon had bowled a worldie.

— David Slinger (@davidslinger) June 16, 2023

❌ “It tends to go to the boundary quicker“

✅ “I tend to go to the dressing room quicker”

— 𝗡𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗵 (@sopranonitish) June 16, 2023

I thought Harry said he was going to hit Gary out of the ground. Gary just too good for him, he couldn’t even hit it. When Harry met Gary 😂 No one wants what he had. #BazBollocks

— Mark Andrews (@Muck_Gregory) June 16, 2023

So so so unlucky!

— Emma Gregory (@emmagregory23) June 16, 2023

Aargh! It ended a fascinating passage of play with England trying to impose its game plan on a Mourinho defensive operation from Australia with sweepers and a round the wicket leg stump line.

— Mark Bussell (@TheLastBus) June 16, 2023

Bazball 😂😂😂

— Ankur Gautam (@AnkurGa79689647) June 16, 2023

pic.twitter.com/qRDyJGc0Mk

— wofte (@WofteT) June 16, 2023

Lyon celebrating like it was all part of a master plan 😂😂😂

— Darren (@Fatboynotsofit) June 16, 2023

Speaking of the action of the match at the moment, it entered an interesting mode on the very first day as the hosts England, in a surprise to the cricket fans and experts, declared their first innings on the score of 393 runs for the loss of eight wickets and made Australia bat when the game was nearing the end of the first day.

Former skipper and modern-day batting great, Joe Root scored a very crucial century and played a crucial knock of 118 runs. Other than him, the star wicketkeeper-batter Jonny Bairstow and opener Zak Crawley also played the knocks of 78 and 61 runs for England in the first innings.