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Ashes kept Test cricket alive: Ex-Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly

| @indiablooms | Aug 19, 2019, at 05:30 pm

New Delhi, Aug 19 (UNI) Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly has said that the Ashes series between England and Australia have 'kept Test cricket alive".

'The” Ashes “ series have kept test cricket alive .... upto rest of the world to raise their standards,' Ganguly tweeted late on Sunday.

Australia took the Ashes opener by registering 251-run win over England, while the second Test at Lord's both the side settled for a draw on Sunday.

Day four of the Test match had given cricket fans a spectacle as there was a fierce battle between the bat and ball.

With a 1-0 lead for the visitors, Australia and England will now lock horns in the third Test beginning Thursday at Headingley, Leeds.

 

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