[crowd cheering]
[commentator] Australia win the World Test Championship.
[commentator] And the celebrations will begin.
[Head] The feeling was just, now is our time.
[Labuschagne] We're a very, very good team.
We shouldn't lose one game.
[commentator] The most eagerly anticipated Ashes
for a generation.
They're not good enough to compete against us.
This was an England side transformed
to the most ultra-aggressive side
the game had known.
[Lalor] Bazball's a great concept,
but you need the right leader.
And who better, than Ben Stokes?
-Got him! -No!
Cometh the man, cometh the hour!
Playing an away Ashes,
that defines your career, defines you as a captain.
[Head] He's going after it.
[Cummins] If this doesn't go right
everything gets called into question.
[commentator] There'll be one.
Come on! Come on!
[man] Four!
[commentator] Australia are home.
Ice in his veins, Pat Cummins.
[US commentator] Here we are again in England,
ready to rock with the London series.
Tonight's game featuring
the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals.
[Lyon] Between the first and second Test,
I got asked to do the first pitch
with Jimmy Anderson at the Cubs v Cardinals game,
Major League Baseball.
I went down to West Ham's home ground
and it was probably the most nervous I've ever been
throwing a ball, though.
[man] The Cardinals made that for you.
-Did they? -Yeah.
Gangsta!
[Lyon] It was pretty amazing.
One of those bucket list things that you tick off.
I'm gonna catch your first pitch.
- Are ya? - Yeah.
I'm Nathan. Lovely to meet you.
Yeah, Andrew.
[Lyon] You're not going to move the glove on me?
You're just going to hold it right there?
Right where I want you to throw it.
I'm gonna hold it right there.
Had a moment to myself like,
"Shit, that's actually pretty cool."
Like not many people get to do that.
[crowd cheering]
Nathan Lyon is the centrepiece of all of Australia's success
and their quest here to win the Ashes.
[Lalor] The second Test is massive for Nathan Lyon.
It's his hundredth consecutive Test Match.
Pretty good for a groundskeeper from Young.
[Lyon] It's something that I'm really, really proud about.
I had my wife Em over there and had her family there.
Had my brother there.
[Emma Lyon] For Nate, it's just like a massive year
of huge expectations.
He's got more time behind him than in front of him,
so you want to just enjoy every game
and just appreciate the sacrifices
and you just want to see the people you love do well
and perform and yeah, celebrate.
[Head] A hundred Test Matches is, that hard to achieve,
let alone do it all in one.
To play a hundred straight I think speaks to his resilience
as a character and his achievements
and that's just another one of the many achievements
of the GOAT.
I set the bar high, so high for me
to personally play a massive role in this series.
Understanding what can be the difference
in winning the Ashes.
[commentator] Momentum's definitely starting to shift
in England's favour here and this Australian bowling group,
they've got to do something about it.
[man] Catch!
[commentator] It's down the ground. Mid-off is there.
It's long enough. It's six!
[crowd cheering]
[Lyon] Headingley 2019 was an incredible
but disappointing game.
It was a hell of an innings from Ben Stokes.
[commentator] The whole of Headingley,
the whole of England, rise to Ben Stokes.
Better keep a clear mind here.
Yeah, obviously everyone will align that game
with me dropping the run out.
Take him!
[commentator] Could be a run out.
Oh, he's fumbled!
[crowd cheering]
You're always thinking back about the what ifs.
How could I have done better?
[crowd cheering]
[commentator] The Ashes well and truly alive
because of one cricketer.
That is one of the best innings I've ever seen.
That's a feeling of hurt or cruelty in sport
or however way you want to look at it.
That's a feeling that sometimes you can't hide away from.
That's why I was so eager to get over to this Ashes series.
[Mitchell] Lord's could not be more different to Edgbaston.
Lord's is the bastion of Britishness and tradition.
[Agnew] Lord's is where the Ashes lives.
The urn is there.
[camera snapping]
[man] Nice, and a bit of a smile for me.
Lord's is like Wimbledon or Augusta is to golf.
Throw the ball up a few times for me.
[Cummins] It's always beautifully manicured.
You always have lovely lunches in the lead up at training.
It's always really welcoming.
[Smith] People are generally very respectful and very proper.
I enjoy going to Lord's.
Probably my favourite away trip, I reckon.
Certainly get a nice gentle clap.
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
As opposed to Edgbaston.
Fuck off! [laughing]
[Lalor] Lord's is run by the MCC,
the Marylebone Cricket Club.
It's a private members' club,
so it has got that sort of rather crusty old fashioned
old colonel's image about it.
The anomaly is the ICC governs cricket
but the MCC sets the terms of the way cricket is played.
[Haigh] They're the lawmaker for cricket.
The maintainer of standards.
A place that the rest of the world looks to
for exemplary behaviour.
[Lalor] The Long Room is the most privileged place.
That's where the V-V-VIPs hang out.
[Agnew] I think Lord's must be the only place left
where the players actually walk through the Members'.
You do get a great cheer.
It's a lovely experience.
[Khawaja] I love the Long Room. I love the Lord's crowd.
Like, they were always so welcoming.
They just love cricket.
I always put the Long Room and the MCC members, like...
They were the best.
[commentator] After an incredible week at Edgbaston,
we go again and Lord's Cricket Ground
hosts the second Test Match.
It is one of the great occasions of the sporting calendar.
[bell ringing]
[commentator] He's heaved that away.
This is Smith getting busy early on.
[Mitchell] Coming into Lord's, the idea is, right,
this is game on in the Ashes.
[commentator] And again.
Back-to-back boundaries for Smith.
[Whateley] Australia batted first and posted 416,
highlighted by a Steve Smith century.
[man] Yes!
[commentator] Drives it beautifully through the offside.
32nd Test Match hundred for Steve Smith.
One of the all time greats.
[Whateley] England's openers were unstoppable
against the Australian quicks.
[commentator] Very nice.
It's coming off the middle of the bat right now.
His second boundary in the last couple of overs.
[Mitchell] Bazball was still alive.
[commentator] Oh, shot that!
Very steady start from the England opening pair.
Crawley and Duckett scored briskly.
[commentator] He's got a head on that, Pat Cummins.
Some good batting at a good tempo.
[commentator] Ben Duckett times it beautifully.
68 without loss. They'll want to build on this.
Try and put Nathan Lyon under some pressure.
[Lyon] Crawley and Duckett were off to a pretty decent start but
felt like I was in the game to Duckett a lot.
Yeah!
Alex, that's very close!
Nice, Nathan!
[Lyon] With Crawls, just change of angle
and he's tried to do something
that he hasn't done many times before.
[commentator] Down the pitch. Gone!
Outstanding wicket-keeping from Carey.
[Carey] There doesn't go too many periods
where you feel like Nathan's not going to get a wicket.
[commentator] Incredibly quick glove work.
My job is every ball, expect an opportunity,
whichever mode that might come.
[commentator] What a take that was.
They needed that wicket, Australia.
[Mitchell] You always felt that Nathan Lyon
was in the game at that point
and you were just watching and waiting to see, right,
is he going to be the man
to pull this innings around for Australia.
And then the worst happened.
[man] Catch!
He's had cramp a couple of times,
so my first thought was, oh I hope it's just cramp.
[commentator] Just keep an eye on whether
Nathan Lyon has got cramp, or if he's tweaked a calf.
You sort of hope he's just jigged his knee or ankle
or something and it's going to be alright.
[commentator] Remember, a hundred Test Matches,
consecutive Test Matches.
This doesn't look good.
I remember Usi running over and he goes,
"You've got cramp?" I said, "Nuh."
He goes, "What's wrong?" I said, "I've blown my calf."
"To bits."
So, I knew straight away.
[commentator] Yeah, this could be a big moment
in the Test Match, in the series,
with back-to-back Tests.
He's a major, major man in this attack.
He's pivotal in this attack.
[Lyon] I hopped off the boundary and laid on the boundary,
edge of the boundary,
and Jonesy just said,
"Oh, we need to get to the change room."
So I knew straight away. I was, I was gutted. I was devastated.
[crowd clapping]
[crying]
You're thinking the worst.
You're thinking shit, is your career done?
But more importantly, thinking,
I've let my teammates down.
[sobbing]
[Lyon] I set the bar high, so high for me to personally play
a massive role in this side and in this series.
I want to be the best in the world and I want to
make a difference within the Australian Cricket Team
and I feel like I could have made the difference
in that side,
so that's where the emotion comes from.
[commentator] What a day of Test Match cricket we have had.
Hardly a dull moment. England trail by 138.
[Smith] We pretty much found out as soon as we came off the field
that he was done for the series.
We were shattered for him.
[Marsh] The mood definitely changed in the change rooms.
It went real quiet straight away.
One, you're obviously worried for Gazza,
making sure he's okay, but two,
we know how important he is to our group
and what he brings.
A part of me straight away was like,
oh boy, this makes winning the Ashes a whole lot harder.
[Lalor] What's Australia going to do without Nathan Lyon?
It had never considered that before.
[commentator] Day three. England batting.
[man] Catch Patty!
[commentator] Gone!
[Haigh] On the third day, Australia,
somewhat to their surprise, ended up with an ascendancy.
[commentator] Gee, it's been a good morning for Australia.
They're going to take a handy lead of 91 runs
into the second innings.
[commentator] Can England get back in the game?
Can get back into the series?
The game became a bouncer barrage.
[commentator] Ooh, that's got him on the glove!
The thing to remember as well is
Australia have only had the ten batsmen, won't they?
Nathan Lyon will not go out there and bat.
[Mitchell] In cricket there is no substitute.
You can't send someone else out to bat for you.
So that's one less wicket that England need to get.
[Lyon] The morning of day four, I said to Em,
"Just so you know, I'm going to bat."
And she looked at me.
She goes, "You're an idiot."
She said, "What do you mean?"
"I'm going to bat, like, I'm going to bat."
She goes, "You can't even get in the shower."
Jonesy, our physio, was treating Pat
and I said, "Jonesy, what about batting?"
I'm hobbling around on crutches here.
And Pat just looked at me and goes, "Gaz, you're not batting."
Yeah, well I said, "No, you shouldn't bat."
And he was like, "Oh, we're going to have a look at it."
And I was like, "No."
[Lyon] He goes, "You're an idiot."
So I got the shits and hobbled over to Ronnie.
I said, "Ronnie, I want to bat."
He goes, "Good, so I want you to bat."
I'm like, "Thank fuck for that."
[Jones] Rightio, Gaz, let's get into your batting stance.
[Lyon] Jonesy's like,
"Right, show me how you're going to bat."
You can go there. Full, there.
Like just to, like, keep it out.
-Yeah. -Duck.
[Lyon] I stood there and played a couple of shots.
Somehow convinced him that I was right to go.
Deep down, he knew that he wouldn't be able to stop me
because I was so adamant at going out there.
[Jones] Good. Alright, let's go back in and talk about it.
[Head] If he wanted to do it, he'd go and do it.
Runs are going to be pretty important.
[commentator] Dramatic shots of Nathan Lyon
hobbling down the stairs.
I can't think that England are going to do anything else
but bowl exactly the same way at him.
[crowd gasping]
Everyone's got a job,
whether it's accountant or lawyer or ambulance
or whatever it may be.
Some days you've got to go to work
when you're uncomfortable, so...
[commentator] And gone!
We await to see whether Nathan Lyon is coming.
Out you pop.
[dramatic music]
[crowd applauding]
[commentator] Lord's standing to applaud
the bravery, the commitment,
the dedication to his team's cause.
The game produces many dramatic moments, really,
and here is another that will go down
in the annals of the Ashes.
[Starc] What is going on here?
This peanut's walking out to bat.
Not walking, he's hobbling out, using his bat as a crutch.
[Lyon] Well, Starcy had the shits with me.
He goes, "This is ridiculous, you being out here."
I said, "Well, bear with me.
"Let's try and get a couple of runs here."
[commentator] Nathan Lyon, he's cooked
and he's not going to find it easy
to get out of the way of the ball.
[Cummins] I wasn't so much worried about his calf
because I knew you could strap that up,
but I was more worried about,
I knew they were just going to bowl bouncers at him.
So I was more worried
that he was going to get hit in the head.
[crowd groaning]
[commentator] He is really struggling.
[Cummins] I couldn't watch and I've never had that before.
It's just like he's so injured that, you know,
to see him be vulnerable out there, it's hard to watch.
And I think Ronnie was the same.
We're both just like, "Oh, this is not good."
[commentator] Good shot. But what's he going to do?
It's all very well
that's showing bravery to get out there,
but if you can't score a run, it's utterly pointless.
Starc is going to have a swing here, surely.
Well, he does swing it, and it goes high.
And Rehan Ahmed is under it,
but oh, he does brilliantly actually to get it,
and Nathan Lyon is hopping in and gets home.
Oh no, he's in real trouble here.
He is really struggling.
Effectively, Mitchell Starc has to score a boundary
or they don't score.
Mitchell Starc swings away fine and swings it for four.
So Nathan Lyon has helped
at least his team add four more to the total.
They lead 360.
He's hit that one well.
Huge roar from the crowd
as Mitchell Starc swings Josh Tongue away for six.
Another six runs. This partnership now worth 11.
Well, that is why Nathan Lyon went out to bat.
[Hazlewood] I remember the boys putting on a few and him just,
basically just there having batting practice.
He almost played better.
[commentator] Oh, he's hit him for four. Unbelievable scenes.
The crowd going wild.
Nathan Lyon, on one leg, has just pulled Broad for four.
[Smith] When your mates go out and try and help you win a game
when they can barely walk that certainly lifts the room.
Particularly when he's hitting boundaries
and everyone's cheering.
[upbeat music]
[commentator] And this will be the end of Nathan Lyon.
He's gonna make his way very slowly off the field.
[Lyon] It's pretty incredible to see
the reaction from the English crowds.
[man] Well done, Nate!
[Lyon] They're the type of things that you'll look back at
in your career whenever that may be
and think, shit, that was pretty special.
[commentator] Nathan Lyon showed great courage there
to come out and just help Mitchell Starc
add 15 for that final wicket.
Very valuable runs for his team.
Go Gazza!
So good.
[commentator] And this fascinating Test Match
now reaches its fourth innings.
England requiring 371 runs to win.
Oh!
That is fantastic bowling.
That is good as it gets from Mitchell Starc.
That's exactly why I love the big fucker.
I think I was still steaming at the ears
for having to bat with Gazza.
And I felt like I'd just hit my rhythm,
so things were starting to gel together.
Catch!
[commentator] Toe end of the bat, down to fine leg.
Unbelievable.
How has Duckett got that down to Starc at fine leg?
Big breakthrough late on day four for Australia.
113 for 5.
Well, he's celebrating there, Mitchell Starc.
He won't be celebrating in a second.
[Umpire] Direct to third umpire.
[commentator] The third umpire feels
that he's grounded that ball
as he dragged it along the floor.
[crowd cheering]
What!
How?
[commentator] And that's been overruled. It's not out.
Unbelievable moment.
A surreal day at Lord's. It really was.
It started fairly normal,
but throughout the day,
there's been some unbelievable cricket,
and right at the end,
controversial non-dismissal in the end, of Ben Duckett.
[smattering of applause]
You can't walk off now if you get caught.
Just hang around and wait for the replay.
[Labuschagne] Don't understand,
the rule is that you have to have control of the ball.
[Starc] At what point is that not controlling the ball?
[Labuschagne] Yeah, that's what I mean.
You didn't use the ground to help you take the catch.
I felt like it was pretty regulation.
It just so happened, that the way I went to brace myself,
the ball touched the ground.
So, to the letter of the law, it's not out,
and I'm completely fine with that.
[commentator] An enticing day in prospect,
with England needing 257 more to win
and level the series.
Australia needs 6 wickets to go 2-nil up.
First of all, yesterday, Gaz, well done, mate.
That was courageous. So, all of us were a bit worried,
but you ran out there before we could catch you,
so well done, mate.
[laughing and applause]
And then, I thought yesterday's last session was brilliant.
The way all the bowlers stuck at it, the fielders,
again, the buzz.
Everyone got to their positions.
I thought it was an awesome couple of hours.
[bell ringing]
[Cummins] Really simple today. Not much changes.
We might go a little bit fuller at Stokesy at the start.
Duckett, we'll go straight into bombing
and I don't think it'll take too long.
So like yesterday, keep buzzing around.
I thought it was awesome.
[commentator] First boundary of the morning.
And this has been a good start by England this morning.
[Whateley] England was growing in confidence
and they were pegging back what looked like
a formidable chase.
[commentator] This partnership is worth 90 now
between Duckett and Stokes.
[Hazlewood] We knew it was going to be a flat wicket.
We didn't have our spinner.
We had to get a few wickets straight up I reckon,
Duckett probably in particular.
[commentator] Gets under 200.
[Carey] We knew Duckett was quite compulsive
in playing the short ball.
So I thought for that chance was to get down to leg side.
[commentator] Oh, what a catch. What a beauty from Alex Carey.
Carey again. Boy, he's having a good series.
[Starc] Yes!
Fuckin' justice.
[commentator] England 177 for 5.
It really was excellent thinking from Alex Carey.
Now the Australians will know
there's still a lot of cricket to be played here.
They need five more wickets.
Here comes Jonny Bairstow.
He's been the real star in this new era of English cricket.
Jonny Bairstow can turn a match in an hour.
[Bairstow] Yep!
[commentator] Shot. Nicely timed from Bairstow.
[Whateley] The longer Stokes and Bairstow batted together
the more likely that they were going to be able
to level this series at Lord's.
[Bairstow] No!
[commentator] Bairstow, not looking to take it on
at the moment.
That emphasises how important he thinks
this period of play is for England.
[Bairstow] No!
[Smith] All that innings,
he was walking out of the crease.
[Bairstow] No!
[Cummins] I saw him do it a couple of balls in a row.
Cam Green was bowling and bowled a bouncer,
and he'd duck underneath it.
And then he'd just walk out of his crease.
[tense music]
[Cummins] So I just said to Kez, the ball before,
I just said, "Kez, let's have a throw."
[Carey] I knew it was going to be a bouncer,
so more than likely the ball was coming my way.
Sort of within one ball yeah, it all happened.
[commentator] That's another short ball.
[Carey] Howzat!
[commentator] Oh, now this is going to be interesting.
Jonny Bairstow's walked out of his crease here.
This could well be out.
I don't think there was a call of 'over'.
Jonny Bairstow's ducked and then walked out of his crease.
Alex Carey's just thrown the ball at the stumps and hit them.
Short ball, stayed a bit low, landed a foot in front of me,
so you know, picked up on the half volley
and quickly as possible turned the body to throw it.
It was on target and didn't look like missing, so yeah.
This is going to be interesting.
It smacks the stumps and Kez comes down,
and I'm like, "That's out!"
[commentator] Bairstow's walked out of his crease,
thinking it was the end of the over.
Carey has flung the stumps down from long range.
[Carey] The only discussion from Stokes to maybe Pat,
or mention it to the umpire
was the over signalled from the main umpire?
And once he said he didn't signal or call over,
then the ball's still live.
[umpire] The umpire to director,
we have an umpire's review for the runout.
I didn't know what to make of it.
I sort of, you know, you see the, the bails go off
and he was clearly down the wicket,
and then they referred it, and I was like dunno.
[Khawaja] If the umpire calls over, it's over.
I went, "Did you call over?"
And the umpire was like, "No, I didn't call over."
I'm like, "That's out."
[dramatic music]
For me, it was just clear cut.
You know just, that's out.
[umpire] Roll through, please.
[crowd cheering]
[commentator] This might not be very well received
if it's given out, I'll be honest.
[crowd groaning]
[commentator] That is going to go down really badly.
They could have withdrawn the appeal
and they've chosen not to.
[Lyon] Mate, that's just blatantly out.
[laughing]
Oh, that's made my calf feel better.
'Same old Aussies, always cheating.'
Suck eggs!
[crowd chanting]
I've never heard Lord's like that.
[crowd chanting] Cheat! Cheat! Cheat!
[crowd booing]
[commentator] People are going to be unhappy with it,
but it's the right decision.
You've got to wait for the umpire to call 'over'
and then the ball is dead.
[Carey] Stuart Broad walked out to bat
and basically walked straight up to me and Pat
and I think he said to me,
"That's all you'll be remembered for."
That's all you're ever going to be remembered for that.
It's all you'll ever be remembered for.
[commentator] Now, Broad's on strike to Pat Cummins.
[Broad] Wait, wait, wait!
[commentator] Broad keeps his bat in the crease
and says to Australia, "Is the ball dead?"
When Broady started going on, the crowd just got on top.
That's when it started to really escalate from there.
[commentator] This Lord's crowd
are really getting behind England here.
After that it was just absolute carnage.
[commentator] Huge cheers as Stokes pulls Cameron Green
to the Mounds stand for four.
Pure theatre with Stuart Broad, isn't it?
And he's making Australia feel very uncomfortable right now.
No doubt. I mean, it pressed a switch on Ben Stokes.
[commentator] Hammered away by Stokes. He's on the charge.
England need 148.
A very different atmosphere at Lord's. It's all on.
[man] Catch!
[commentator] 6, 6 and a 4 in the over from Stokes.
Come on!
[commentator] An epic way to go to a Test Match hundred.
England's captain, Ben Stokes.
While he is there, England have hope.
And an incredible session of cricket, ill-tempered at times,
comes to an end.
Great scenes in the Long Room
as Stokes and Broad just behind him
make their way into the dressing rooms.
[crowd booing]
[crowd] Same old Aussies, always cheating!
[Cummins] Walking back, into the Long Room.
That's how I'll always remember the Lord's Test Match.
[booing]
[Cummins] It was like, we'd ripped the soul out of them.
It wasn't overly pleasant,
particularly how close people are to you.
[booing]
[Khawaja] One of the MCC members started spraying me.
I was like, "Mate, you can't, you can't be saying this stuff."
Absolute disgrace.
He was like, "I can say whatever I effing want."
Like that sense of entitlement almost.
[angry chattering]
[Khawaja] There was probably only about
three of them that I called out.
One of them was really inappropriate.
[Khawaja] Him and him. These two.
Absolutely, yeah, people stepped over the line.
Like that's, yeah,
I don't think how you should treat people.
[Labuschagne] I don't think I've ever seen
a group of grown, old-as men...
Like mate, this one bloke was foaming at the mouth.
A bloke kicked Bull when he went up the stairs.
We're at Lord's!
[Harris] They were kicking off over the fence.
I was like, "You wrote the rules,
"you fucking idiots. Not our fault."
[laughing]
[man] Blame Alex Carey.
Someone told me to throw it. I'm not sure who it was.
It's like yesterday's catch, right?
It's like, there's an interpretation of the law.
So, you didn't see Duckett go,
"Oh, by the way, he caught that,
"claiming my interpretation of that law was the opposite."
It's gonna polarise, but it goes upstairs,
they're there to officiate for a reason, so...
Yep.
You guys felt comfortable, there was an appeal,
you went through with the appeal and he was given out, so...
There wasn't anything cheeky about it.
It was literally, got the ball, rolled it back.
Any highlights?
[Cummins] Broad, saying, "Oh, unfortunately mate,
"that's what you're going to be remembered for.
"I can't believe you've done that."
And I'm like "Oh, Broady, because you're such
"an upstanding citizen, mate, aren't you?"
And he's like,
"Listen to the crowd, mate. Listen to the crowd."
And I was like, "Yeah, they're not my mates, mate."
[Labuschagne] Oh please,
you almost missed a brawl in the lunchroom.
- Is it happening? Really? - Yeah.
Jonny came in hot.
He goes, "Are you guys happy with that?"
Bull goes, "Yeah."
[laughing]
Davey is like mid-chicken thing and he just stops and he's like,
takes it out and goes, "Yeah, very."
It was freaking priceless.
Fortunately, I wasn't looking at the England team,
but I'm just like...
I was sitting there like a school kid
who shouldn't be laughing, just...
...and I eat my soup and then I look up at Jonny
and Jonny's just staring over at us
and I'm just like...
[Whateley] England needed a further 128 runs.
Australia was pushing for the last four wickets.
[Lalor] The balance of the game was in Australia's favour.
But anything can happen when Ben Stokes is at the wicket.
We're going to go with a spread outfield for Stokesy.
We're going to go five on the leg, four on the off.
Last couple of balls we'll try and keep him on strike...
...if not, don't stress but we'll try our best.
Let's drag it out.
He's going to hit one in the air.
Broady. Same stuff.
Plenty of short stuff. Might throw in the odd yorker.
Stay really calm out there. Stick tight. Enjoy it lads.
[Carey] No probs. [crowd booing]
[commentator] Ben Stokes stands in the way
of this Australian team going 2-nil up in the Ashes.
He's flicked that switch.
Can he flick it and keep it on after lunch?
[Hazlewood] Those situations for Stokes,
he just plays so freely because it's, you know,
it's all down to him. If he's out, that's it.
[commentator] Goes down the ground. Will it go all the way?
You bet it does. It's Ben Stokes.
[Agnew] Ben Stokes loves that sort of contest.
It really was Stokes or bust.
[commentator] Goes leg side.
There's a man out there, can he catch it?
Oh, he's put it down!
One of the best fielders in the world has just dropped a dolly.
Yeah, I was like, "Oh jeez, what's going on here?"
[commentator] How costly might that be?
I thought, I don't know if we'll get another chance here.
Like, that might have been it.
[commentator] I've never seen Lord's like this.
[interviewer] When that chance just spills,
what were your thoughts?
Oh, straight away, Headingley.
[commentator] History is repeating itself here.
No, not again. Can't do this again.
[commentator] I reckon that's six.
But he just kept doing it.
[commentator] It is a six. It's down to 103.
[Whateley] It cast the mind immediately
back to Headingley 2019.
If you were ever going to make amends for the past,
it's right now.
[commentator] And again, and again.
Yes, indeed. Two in a row.
England only needs 71 now.
The wheels are coming off here, Australia.
[Cummins] It didn't feel like we had
a hundred options to throw at him,
and we didn't have Nathan Lyon.
Half of it's stressful and hoping it to be over,
and thinking of, okay, what can I do differently?
But the reality I kept landing on
there's not really a heap you can throw at him
that's going to be different.
[commentator] Australia, they need Stokes.
They need him quickly.
From four years ago at Headingley,
if there's one thing they would do differently
what would it be that they need to do here?
[Starc] We probably got caught buying into the emotion a bit
for a period of time where he got away
and scored a lot of runs and it was just like, well,
he's going again here.
We've got to change something to change the narrative on him,
rather than just playing to his strengths.
[commentator] Down the hill to the short boundary.
[Hazlewood] He was hitting 15, 20 off each over from that end.
And from the other end, he was hitting,
basically it was maidens.
[Stokes] No, Ben!
[Cummins] You saw us shift plans
from just trying to bowl top of the stumps
and bounces and hoping for an error,
to suddenly we try to shut out his scoring options
from that end.
[Hazlewood] Stagnating that scoreboard
just built the pressure, built the pressure.
That then can force the hand a bit more.
[commentator] Australia's got every player on the fence,
bar the keeper and the bowler.
I remember it going up in the air.
It didn't go that high,
so I was like "There's no one here."
[commentator] Sliced away.
And Carey, Hazlewood combine
to end a quite magnificent innings from Ben Stokes.
He wanted to get his team over the line. He's not done it.
He's left England 70 short,
but those Australia players know what they've witnessed today.
[Cummins] I was pretty happy.
Yeah, maybe part of it relief.
You're like, "Oh phew."
"It's not Headingley over again. It's okay."
That felt like that was game over.
[commentator] Australia, well, that's the big wicket
that they desperately wanted.
England still requires 70.
[Agnew] Yeah, with him went England's hopes, to be honest.
[man] Yeah!
[commentator] The contest is done now. Australia win.
[Carey] Won the Test Match, and to Patty's credit,
he basically said to the group,
"There's no need to carry on like idiots to the crowd.
"It's about us."
[commentator] Australia love playing here.
They've won now and go 2-nil up.
What another magnificent game of Test Match cricket.
What a great day we've seen today.
[crowd chanting] Same old Aussies, always cheating.
[Whateley] The ensuing furore
was as intense as I've ever experienced.
[Mitchell] I could barely hear what the players were saying
because of a crowd that had gathered
and had stayed behind in the stands after the match,
specifically it felt to abuse the Australian players.
[crowd jeering]
[announcer] And now, for your appreciation,
England captain, Ben Stokes.
[TV interviewer] It was the Jonny Bairstow dismissal
that prompted your change of approach today.
Did you have any issues with the way that dismissal went?
[Stokes] Look, at the end of the day, it's out.
You know, and I think if the shoe was on the other foot,
I would probably just have to have a little think
around the sort of whole spirit of the game,
and things like that.
[crowd applauding]
-[booing] -[man] You cheat!
You six fingered bastards!
[crowd chanting] Same old Aussies, always cheating!
It was within the laws of the game.
I don't see what, how,
spirit of cricket's got anything to do with
Bairstow being out of his crease.
[booing]
[journalist] Pat, is there such a thing
or do you believe in such a thing
as the 'spirit of cricket'?
Yep.
[Haigh] It is an understanding, a philosophy,
that cricket is about more than the black letter law.
[journalist] Did you consider the spirit of cricket?
Can you defend not withdrawing that appeal?
Okay. Um...
I thought it was fair.
I think everybody has their own idea
of what the spirit of cricket is.
In that situation,
Jonny Bairstow was not going for a run.
You'd give him a warning.
Would I want to potentially win a game
with something like that happening,
and it would be no.
[Lyon] That's a load of crap. It's a stumping. It's out.
It's out every day of the week.
People use the spirit of cricket
in whichever way suits them on that day.
Everyone's got their own, 'spirit of cricket'.
But the laws of the game are the laws of the game.
And if it's in the laws of the game,
it can't be against the spirit of cricket.
[Cummins] You do something, you expect a certain outcome.
That was like, I thought, relatively vanilla,
and it just blew up.
[Agnew] Is it going to affect relations between the teams?
[McCullum] Well I can't imagine
we'll be having a beer anytime soon.
[Lalor] This was already a tense series,
but it went up a notch. It went up ten notches.
[Piers Morgan] The home of cricket witnessed
an act of unsporting treachery by Australia.
[commentator] He was out in the rules of the game,
but that's not the spirit.
[Agnew] There were some horrible headlines over here.
You know, Carey and Cummins took a lot of flack in the media.
[Piers Morgan] The person I blame is your captain.
Why didn't Pat Cummins withdraw that appeal?
[Boycott] If Pat Cummins and his team
don't know what standards are, then I can't teach 'em.
The Prime Minister today waded into the controversial row
sparked at Lord's Cricket Ground.
The Prime Minister's got involved.
I mean, I think the last time that happened
was Bodyline, wasn't it?
[newsreader] Rishi Sunak accused Australia
of breaking the spirit of cricket.
[Piers Morgan] Where's the glory in winning a sport,
if in the process of winning
you abandon basic honour, integrity and fair play?
[chattering]
[Whateley] Amidst the blazing controversy,
the Australian team has to refocus
and zero in on the task of winning the third Test.
But the fresh concern was
how would Australia replace its prized all rounder.
Cam Green is injured,
and the back-up all-rounder is Mitch Marsh.
Mitchy, yeah. I love Mitchy. [laughing]
[man] Hey, give us a look...
Have a look at the size of that nipple.
[laughing]
Look at that!
[man 2] The other one's pretty good, too.
[Marsh] I like to enjoy life.
I mean, the whole team just takes the piss out of me.
And I give it as good as I can take it,
so it all works out well.
[laughing]
[funky music]
[Marsh] Well the reef is nice, hey?
[Marsh] I like to make sure I'm having fun
and I like the people around me to feel happy.
That's about it really. Pretty simple.
This is where the slow motion comes in.
[Melissa Marsh] Do you guys remember that time
when we were kids
and you started throwing balls in the bowling machine
and then just turned it up and up
and eventually it was just ball after ball, full pelt,
and I remember just standing there with the bat up like this.
[Marsh] Yeah, totally.
[Melissa] You guys having a good old laugh
and I thought, I'm never playing cricket again.
[Marsh] What are brothers for?
[Shaun Marsh] Remember that golf ball that I hit?
I chunked it and it went straight into your forehead?
Yeah, that's why I'm a bit, not all there.
[Shaun] Geez, I got in trouble with Mum that day.
[Marsh] I'm obviously the youngest.
Melissa's six years older than me
and Shaun's eight years older than me,
so I guess we didn't really connect till I got a bit older
and maybe a little bit more mature.
[Shaun] To be able to say
that I played Test cricket with my brother
is something that, you know,
growing up that's what we dreamt of.
Just being a good person and a really good mate
means more to me than anything else.
-[Marsh] It's crazy. -[Shaun] I know he's my brother,
but I don't think I've met a better person in my life.
I absolutely love him.
[Marsh] I guess he's finished playing now
and he sort of rides my career like it's his own
and he's my biggest supporter.
When I was a lot younger, you know,
if cricket was going well, then I was going well as a person.
And if cricket wasn't going well,
then I was down in the dumps,
and that was um, a bit of a roller coaster.
[Marsh] The last fifteen Tests that I played,
I just failed a heap.
And I just kept on failing, failing, failing.
There was a lot of people that were really frustrated
with how much opportunity I got.
It was like a snowball effect,
walking down the street and just getting sprayed
for being shit, pretty much.
Growing up as a kid playing on Boxing Day as an Australian,
it's a very special day in our calendar,
and I remember coming on to bowl
and the whole crowd booed me.
[booing]
[Marsh] Yeah, that was probably, no doubt,
the toughest day of my career.
Yeah, most of Australia hate me.
[laughing]
But I love playing for Australia.
I love wearing the baggy green cap and I'll keep trying
and hopefully I'll win them over one day.
There's definitely been times where I thought,
do I really want to play Test cricket again?
Times where I'd just ring Shaun and be like,
"I'm done. Don't want to do this anymore."
And he would just be like,
"Shut up, mate. You're not done."
[Haigh] Mitchell Marsh had slotted in,
having played four first class matches
in the four years since he'd played his last Test.
So really had no form to speak of.
[interviewer] Who did you call first?
Ah, Shaun. Yeah...
Yeah, basically just said, "I'm in."
And he was going off his tree.
Yeah, he was in Bali for his 40th so he was up and about
and he just sort of reminded me of all those conversations
that we'd had over the last couple of years
to I guess say, this is why you don't give up.
Been a long time coming, so, nice to get an opportunity.
Poor Greeny's injured but I'll warm his seat for a week.
[McDonald] Just wanted to start the meeting
by just reviewing the series so far
and sometimes we're remiss not to reflect on
how well we are going in certain areas,
and in particular,
the amount of care that you showed each other
through those moments,
when you come up, you know, through the Long Room.
Only you guys experience that.
We saw the outcome of when we got to the rooms
but the way you come tight together
and were able to navigate your way through that,
that's a huge challenge.
But to me that shows great amount of care within the group,
so all I implore you to do is just focus
on what really matters to us as a group.
And that's the reason why I show the families up there,
the success that you've had.
Zero into it and that's our game plan and that's our families,
everything that matters around us.
And it's a singular focus on those things.
[Cummins] I think if anything it made us as a group tighter.
We're playing the right way, hold our heads high.
Don't worry about the opposition, the crowd.
We play our own way at our own tempo
and just keep doubling down on that.
[Agnew] Well, we were expecting fireworks at Headingley.
[dramatic music] [crowd cheering]
[Agnew] It doesn't need something like that
to fire up the good Yorkshire folk.
The West Stand is legendary for its hostility.
[crowd jeering]
Of course they were going to get some stick.
Of course they were.
[crowd chanting]
[commentator] England winning the toss here this morning
on what looks like a greenish and hard pitch
and they've made three changes, mainly to that bowling attack.
Wood back, Woakes back, Ali back.
That is a huge boost for them in a game they must win.
[Whateley] Mark Wood gives England raw pace
and that unsettles batters.
[Agnew] Well there's no finer sight in cricket
than a proper fast bowler.
Running in, tearing in down a hill, giving his all.
Batsmen having to be really brave.
[crowd groaning and clapping]
That's what Test cricket's about.
[Khawaja] That first spell was rocket, lightning fast.
It was fast.
[Agnew] No one likes facing that.
No one enjoys getting hit.
[crowd groaning]
[commentator] Well that's just express pace.
Crowd getting involved.
[Khawaja] It was swinging while he was bowling fast,
and once you get a little bit of movement at that pace...
[crowd cheering]
Man! That's hard to face.
[commentator] 94.6 miles per hour from Mark Wood.
Delight for Wood, delight for England.
[Agnew] Mark Wood produced
one of those fantastic firework spells.
He just lifted the game to another level.
[Mitchell] Edged and taken.
Inside edge. Bairstow takes it.
[commentator] And that is a very good morning for England now.
Australia, 85 for 4.
[commentator] Well, Mitch Marsh into the side today.
Probably wasn't going to be thinking
that he was going to be out in the middle before lunch.
[commentator] And Australia put under serious pressure
this morning.
[Marsh] As a batsman, one mistake and you're out,
so I guess that's a fear of failure.
[commentator] Mitch Marsh
is going to have to have his wits about him here
because the crowd are up and about.
Dropped! Put down!
That's a catch that you take every day in the slips.
[Marsh] If he takes that catch,
I would have walked off going, "Oh, well, I'm still shit."
[laughing]
But somehow he dropped it.
In the past, when I've had moments like that
or I play a bad shot...
Mentally, I would go into a place
where I'm thinking about the false shot
or I'm thinking about getting dropped or...
Whereas all the work I've done
on the mental side of the game,
I went straight back into my pre-ball routine,
my breathing and I forgot about it straight away.
[commentator] Oh, and he goes big
for his first delivery against Wood.
[Marsh] I always said to myself
that if I got another opportunity
to play Test cricket, I'm going to play the way I want to play,
regardless of game situation.
[commentator] When it is short, Mitchell Marsh will take it on.
It's up in the air.
Takes him all the way for six.
Oh, that's some shot.
[Marsh] I felt really good and moved well.
And for me, that's when I was like,
"Yeah, I'm back."
[commentator] That's nailed.
He hits the ball seriously hard, this lad.
When he gets going,
he's my favourite batter in the world to watch.
[commentator] He pulls that, swats it.
He's so big and strong.
Whenever he's playing,
everyone's always pretty excited going,
"Oh, if he goes off here, it could be fun."
Oh, yes, Bison!
[commentator] Thunderous power.
Really good batting from Mitchell Marsh.
[Cummins] There was no fear there.
It was him just saying, "I'm here to play."
[commentator] Wow. That's quite a statement. 93 miles an hour.
Take that.
[Head] I just felt like my job at that time
was to try and get him on a strike
and let him ride the wave and yeah,
it's some of the best batting I've ever seen.
[commentator] Smashed!
[Mitchell] Just the power of the man.
[Mitchell] Oooh!
In a blink of an eye, Mitch Marsh has moved to 99.
[Marsh] Probably the thing I've been most proud of is
just the fact that I've always continued to try
and just not give up.
A lot of people asked me sort of what changed,
but really I just didn't give up
and I got another opportunity.
I feel like a lot of people give up way too easily,
so keep trying.
Yep.
[Marsh] Yes!
[Mitchell] He's going to get going, and he does! He does!
[crowd cheering and clapping]
Yes! Yes! Yes!
[Mitchell] In 2019 he said, "Most Australians hate me."
In 2023 every Australian is absolutely loving him.
[Marsh] Just to come back to be true to myself,
to play the way that I want to come out and play.
I didn't think I'd play again,
so it was just a really special moment
in my career and my life.
Yeah, it was just an amazing feeling.
[Mitchell] Australia in strife,
and he's come to the rescue, has Mitch Marsh.
[Cummins] I can't think of any other hundred
I've enjoyed more than watching him score a hundred there.
I was just like, oh, I could have gone out and kissed him.
[man] Great work, big boy.
[gentle music]
[Marsh] Walking to the press conference,
I was literally just about to walk in
and someone came up to me and said,
"Have you seen the video?"
Have you seen the video of your Dad and your brother yet?
No, where is it?
Oh, it's wicked! I've got it here.
And straight away I was like,
"Oh, no. What have they done?"
[all cheering] Yeah!
[man] What time is it in Bali? Jeez.
[man] He's hugging your Dad. That's your Dad in white.
Look at him!
[Marsh] No way.
Yes the Bison! Go the Bison!
Bison!
Come on the Bison!
They certainly enjoyed themselves that night.
[Bhogle] That hundred was special,
and sometimes at 20 you find yourself.
Sometimes at 27, 28, you find yourself.
Sometimes you take knocks on the way.
Everyone finds himself at different stages in life,
and I think Mitch Marsh has found himself.
[commentator] Australia looking to win the series
for the first time since 2001.
And he smashes it.
A tidal wave of emotion behind England.
Have you seen an Australian side look this devoid of ideas?
Serious problems for Australia.
[upbeat music]