Harm scare? Stokes winces after taking catchSolely Take a look at, Lord’s (day three of 4)Eire 172 (Broad 5-51, Leach 3-35) & 362 (Adair 88, McBrine 86*, Tongue 5-66)England 524-4 dec (Pope 205, Duckett 182) & 12-0 (Crawley 12*)England gained by 10 wicketsScorecard

England lastly overcame a spirited fightback by Eire to win the one-off Take a look at at Lord’s by 10 wickets.

Mark Adair clubbed a freewheeling 88 and Andrew McBrine an enterprising unbeaten 86 to increase what had beforehand been a one-sided contest previous tea on the third day.

When Eire misplaced their sixth wicket, successfully their seventh as a result of opener James McCollum was absent injured, they nonetheless wanted 190 runs to make England bat once more.

However quantity 9 Adair repeatedly flogged the ball by the leg facet and McBrine performed some high-class strokes in a seventh-wicket partnership of 163 – Eire’s highest for any wicket in Exams.

Although Adair finally feathered Matthew Potts behind and tempo bowler Josh Tongue accomplished a five-wicket haul on his Take a look at debut, final man Graham Hume pushed Eire into the result in the delight of a Lord’s crowd wanting to see as a lot cricket as attainable.

Eire had been lastly dismissed for 362 when Hume was bowled by Stuart Broad, leaving McBrine stranded and England needing 11 to win.

Zak Crawley scored all of them in 4 balls to seal victory in England’s remaining Take a look at earlier than the Ashes sequence in opposition to Australia which begins on 16 June at Edgbaston.

Earlier than then, consideration turns to the Australians and their World Take a look at Championship remaining in opposition to India at The Oval, beginning on Wednesday.

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The heroics of Adair and McBrine disrupted what had in any other case been a simple week for England, an Ashes tune-up for a workforce in supreme type and brimming with confidence.

However, in a single sense, the trouble of the seventh-wicket pair is probably the most helpful factor to come back out of the sport for England – runs flowing in situations doing…

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