England’s Ben Duckett expressed solely delicate disappointment at lacking out on 100 at Lord’s on Thursday, focusing as a substitute on how nicely his facet had responded to Australia’s first innings rating of 416 on the second day of the second take a look at of the Ashes.

Duckett hit 98 as England raced to 278-4 in reply in an one other excessive octane “Bazball” batting show, solely to sky a ball to David Warner for a cushty catch. “At the start of the day I’d have been over the moon if I was offered 98 but falling so close to scoring three figures here at Lord’s, yeah I’m obviously gutted about that. But I thought it was certainly my best innings in an England shirt,” Duckett advised reporters after the shut of play.

He stated that for him a very powerful factor was to be true to himself in the way in which he performs his cricket, which generally entails attacking each ball with out concern or favour. “I’d have been gutted with myself if I’d gone away from it and gone into my shell and gloved one to the keeper behind,” he stated.

“For three or four overs leading up to that I felt so comfortable hitting it for ones, and 10 metres either side of him (Warner) there I’d have got a hundred.” “I always make jokes about never leaving the ball and sometimes I don’t know how I’m getting runs because of it,” he added.

Duckett fell throughout a wild hour in the course of the afternoon when Australia appeared to bowl nothing however quick aggressive balls and England appeared to do nothing however swing arduous at each one in every of them. For England’s half, that took place all by itself, in keeping with Duckett.

“There wasn’t really any discussion. Everyone individually went about it differently,” he stated. “It’s the way we play our cricket. If they’re going to have plans like that and we’re going to go in our shells and get bombed out, people round the corner would be going totally against what we do,” he stated, in a nod to among the criticism of the workforce’s “Bazball” type of play named after their coach Brendon McCullum.

Overall, Duckett stated he felt that England had had the higher day and put themselves again in competition after Australia had seemed set to placed on an enormous first innings rating. “From a position where they could potentially go on and score 500 I thought we fought back so well,” Duckett stated.

“I think we’re in a great position.”

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