England had to settle for a draw in the second Ashes Test, but not before Australia were given a huge fright by a Ben Stokes century and another electric Jofra Archer spell on a gripping final day at Lord's.
Having to bat 48 overs to save the game, Australia were 132-3 in the 36th over, only to lose three wickets for 17 runs in the next five.
With the light fading and the tension rising, Archer tore in and spinner Jack Leach had the ball spitting from the rough, but Travis Head and Pat Cummins saw the tourists to 154-6.
Stokes' unbeaten 115 allowed England to declare on 258-5, setting Australia an unlikely 267 to win.
The visitors were without premier batsman Steve Smith, who was withdrawn from the match with a concussion sustained when he was hit by Archer on Saturday.
Once again England debutant Archer bowled with frightening pace, removing David Warner and Usman Khawaja in his first three overs.
Then, with the second ball he bowled to Marnus Labuschagne - the concussion substitute who replaced Smith - Archer dealt another vicious blow to the grille of the batsman's helmet with a delivery clocked at 91.6mph.
Labuschagne bravely battled to 59, but when he was contentiously caught by Joe Root off Leach, it began an Australia slide that also included an outrageous, acrobatic grab by Joe Denly to remove Tim Paine.
However, the light became so poor that Archer was prevented from bowling the final two overs from the Pavilion End and Australia kept their 1-0 lead intact.
They will retain the Ashes if they win the third Test at Headingley, which begins on Thursday.
If their heavy defeat in the first Test at Edgbaston left England with all the problems - Smith's two centuries, James Anderson injured, Moeen Ali dropped - then it is the home side who will go to Headingley with the momentum.
Indeed, if it had not been for the rain that wiped out 10 overs at the beginning of the fifth day as well as five previous sessions, the series would probably be level.
On Sunday, five weeks after the World Cup final, England's heroes on that day - Stokes and Archer - once again delighted a partisan Lord's crowd that was almost treated to a finale as dramatic as that win over New Zealand.
It is Archer who has changed the complexion of this series, not only by inflicting the injury on Smith that leaves him a doubt for Headingley, but by possessing the sheer pace that will surely continue to trouble the Australians.
England have made other gains, too. Jonny Bairstow and Jos Buttler have found some form with the bat and Leach looks a reliable spin option for captain Root.
The top order is however still a concern and the team as a whole are inconsistent. One poor England performance or an inspired Australia display in one of the final three Tests will see the Ashes heading back down under.
If there was still any doubt after his World Cup exploits, this debut - perhaps the most exciting by an England player since Kevin Pietersen on the same ground against the same opponents 14 years ago - proved Archer can be a potent weapon for years to come.
He backed up Saturday's venomous spell to Smith with a new-ball burst on Sunday, reducing Australia to 19-2 then flooring Labuschagne with a terrifying bouncer.
But Labuschagne, in his sixth Test, instantly got up and, after some treatment, carefully weathered the storm with well-judged leaves and handsome drives.
After Cameron Bancroft was lbw to Leach in the first over after tea, Travis Head joined Labuschagne for a fourth-wicket stand of 85 during which Head was crucially dropped by Jason Roy at second slip off Stokes with 20 overs remaining.
With Head reprieved, Australia seemed safe when the sweeping Labuschagne was adjudged to have been held by a diving Root, via a deflection off short leg, just before the ball hit the turf. It was actually the beginning of more drama.
Matthew Wade popped Leach to short leg and yet another ferocious Archer spell was rewarded when square leg Denly magnificently leapt high to his left to hold a hooking Paine in one hand.
England sensed victory and crowded the bat, but missed one more half-chance when silly point Rory Burns could not cling on to Cummins' defensive push, and the forced withdrawal of Archer sucked the life from the conclusion.
At 96-4, leading by 104, it was England who were most vulnerable at the beginning of the day.
That they were put into a position from which they could win was down to the patience then power of Stokes, who scored his first Test century in more than two years and his first since the incident outside a Bristol nightclub that denied him a place on the last Ashes tour.
Stokes, who had two lives when on six the previous evening, absorbed Australia's early-morning pressure alongside Buttler, pushing their fifth-wicket stand to 90.
Losing Buttler soon after lunch, Stokes was joined by Bairstow and switched from straight-batted defence to flamboyant strokeplay.
As England rattled along at almost six an over, Stokes swept off-spinner Nathan Lyon for successive sixes, while Bairstow hit two sixes of his own.
With the crowd carried along by the momentum, Stokes turned Lyon for a single to reach three figures and celebrated with a double punch of the air. When a Peter Siddle over was taken for 16, England declared.

We all thought West Indies batsman Chris Gayle's 301st one-day international would be his last - except for the man himself.
Gayle, 39, scored 72 in his side's defeat by India in what had been expected to be his final match.
But the opener - who recently surpassed Brian Lara's ODI run record for a West Indian, which now stands at 10,480 - is playing on "until further notice".
In June, Gayle reversed his original decision to retire after the World Cup.
Gayle, who usually wears the number 45, wore a specially-printed shirt with the number 301 on the back for the third ODI against India at the Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad.
But his 72 off 41 balls, 62 of those scored in boundaries, was not enough to help his side avoid defeat - and a 2-0 series loss.
Gayle left the field waving his bat aloft, soaking up the warm and prolonged applause from the crowd, a gesture indicating that would be the last time he would be wearing West Indies colours.
India captain Virat Kohli's impressive 114 not out helped his side to a six-wicket victory on the DLS method, and he was also swept up by the occasion, gushing about how Gayle was a "gem of a human being" and "always kind" as a tribute to his former Royal Challengers Bangalore team-mate upon his retirement.
But retired-not-retired Gayle said after the game: "I didn't announce any retirement."
In reversing his original retirement decision during the World Cup, Gayle also revealed he wanted to play in an upcoming Test match against India on home soil, but he has not been selected in the squad. The first match of the two-Test series begins on 22nd August at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua.

The Sri Lankan cricket team may soon return to Pakistan to play at least one Test match, more than a decade since militants attacked their team bus in Lahore in 2009.
Sri Lanka and Pakistan were originally scheduled to play at a neutral venue, but Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) sent a security delegation to visit Pakistan after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) gave them an offer to play one match in Pakistan — it’s first of the World Test Championship.
According to a report by ESPNcricinfo, the security delegation gave SLC “very positive feedback” upon its return from Lahore and Karachi.
“The feedback we got from the security team was very positive,” SLC CEO Ashley de Silva told ESPNcricinfo. “We’ll be talking to the PCB about some alternatives before we arrive at a decision. The government will be consulted as well,” he said.
Pakistan last hosted a Test match on home soil in 2009. International cricket in the country was largely suspended after March that year when armed militants used bullets and grenades to attack the Sri Lanka team bus taking the players to the Gaddafi Stadium.
But the country has come a long way since then.
In October 2017, a Sri Lanka team did play a one-off T20I in Lahore, but without a number of prominent players in the squad.

Winnipeg Hawks 192 for 8 (Anwar 90, Lynn 37, Duminy 33, Russell 4-29) tied with Vancouver Knights 192 for 6 (Malik 64, Russell 46*, Emrit 2-37). Super Over Winnipeg 10 beat Vancouver 9 with two balls to spare.
In a pulsating final decided in the Super Over, Winnipeg Hawks held their nerve to out-battle Vancouver Knights and, especially, Andre Russell, who could well have been on the park for West Indies at Port-of-Spain, if not for the knee injury he was managing post-surgery. Yet, as the final got tense, he batted like a man possessed, came out to bowl the Super Over, and everything asked of him and more, except win the game for his side.
Here's how it panned out: 54 needed off 19 balls in the Knights chase. Shoaib Malik has been dismissed for a fine 64. It is the final, no second chances. In walks Russell at No. 7, the Knights' last hope. Earlier in the evening, he had taken 4 for 29 to restrict Winnipeg to 192. He has been held back, even below Canada's Saad Bin Zafar, in the batting order. Now, it's all or nothing. So what does he do? Smash the ball like only he can – three fours, five sixes, all in 19 balls, to bring it down to three runs off the final ball.
Russell is on strike but this time, he can only mistime an attempted slog towards long-on. The bowler can't collect the throw as they scramble for a second. They now try to sneak in a third, but the cover fielder backing up quickly hurls the ball to the wicketkeeper. Zafar is run out, Russell's heroics aren't enough, and the game is forced into a Super Over. The Hawks are still in it. Shaiman Anwar, whose 90 allowed them to make 192 and keep them alive in the first place, can still be a winner.
Now for the one-over shootout.
Vancouver, predictably, send in Russell and South Africa's Rassie van der Dussen. Kaleem Sana, an unheralded 25-year-old left-arm medium pacer from Rawalpindi, with an experience of five List-A games and four first-class fixtures, has the unenviable task of bowling.
He's been clubbed for 50 off four wicketless overs earlier in the evening. Now, the pressure is on him and he sees the first ball of the shootout vanish for six. Russell is in his zone again, or he had never left it. Sana follows it up with two length balls to cramp the batsmen, before getting Russell caught at long-on. He's redeemed himself and Winnipeg need just 10 to win.
You'd think Russell wouldn't feature anymore in the game - creaking knees, managing his injury and all that. But no! He's bowling the Super Over. Having got the side to the doorstep of victory, only to see them fluff it, he's now got the chance to deliver the knockout blow.
He starts well, restricting the first two balls to singles, before he slips in a full toss which the batsman misses. All good for now, except, wicketkeeper Tobias Visee misses too. Four byes, game on. Chris Lynn is on strike. Four to get, three balls left, and he swings, gets a thick outside edge over short third man, and it races away for four and Winnipeg win. The Global T20 Canada couldn't have asked for a more fitting finale.
Earlier, after being asked to bat, the Hawks rode on UAE batsman Anwar's 45-ball 90, with eight fours and seven sixes, to get to a strong total at CAA Centre in Brampton. Anwar started with a 73-run stand with Lynn in the Powerplay before Russell got rid of the Australian for a 21-ball 37. But Anwar batted on, putting up another good stand of 81 with JP Duminy (33 in 27 balls) for the third wicket before falling ten short of his boundary when he miscued an attempted biggie in the 16th over. Russell's four wickets were complemented by USA pacer Ali Khan's 2 for 30 and local boy Rayyan Pathan's 2 for 24.
The Knights' reply started poorly, with Rayad Emrit reducing them to 2 for 2 by the second over, but van der Dussen (23 in 22) and Australian Daniel Sams (21 in 9) gave them stability before Malik, Zafar (27 in 26) and Russell took them to the doorstep of victory. The fell just short in the end, but only just.

On the fourth day, while chasing down a substantial target of 268 against New Zealand in the Galle Test, Sri Lanka needed an innings of substance. Dimuth Karunaratne proved to be the backbone of Sri Lanka's chase as he cracked a superlative 122 and was ably supported by Lahiru Thirimanne (64) to power Sri Lanka to a morale-boosting six-wicket victory.
On Day 5, Sri Lanka needed 135 more runs, while New Zealand were in search of 10 wickets. However, it didn't exactly go according to plan for the visitors with Tom Latham at FSL putting down his second chance of the innings off Ajaz Patel, and Karunaratne was again the beneficiary. The southpaw made the visitors pay for those fluffed chances.
The way the left-handed batsman skipped down the track to loft Ajaz over the deep midwicket fence gave an indication of Sri Lanka's positive intent. However, he lost his batting partner when Thirimanne was adjudged lbw off William Somerville. The opener took the review but to no avail. On the other hand, Somerville was rewarded for his perseverance.
At that stage, Kusal Mendis joined hands with Karunaratne and decided to take the ultra-aggressive route. For a while, he succeeded by tonking Somerville for a four and a six. Just that he tried to play one shot too many and was dismissed by Ajaz, caught at midwicket. The wicket lifted New Zealand to some extent and the Kane Williamson-led side would have hoped to make further incisions.
The luckless Somerville even forced Angelo Mathews to edge one through the on side, but it flew past the FSL fielder. Karunaratne was largely unruffled by all the action at the other end, as he notched up his third Test ton in Galle with a boundary off Ajaz. The experienced Mathews then followed it up with a cut square on the off side to bring the equation down to 78.
Karunaratne, who had already been offered three opportunities, was handed one more reprieve when Ross Taylor grassed a tough chance at slip off Mitchell Santner in the 68th over. And with that chance going down, New Zealand's window of opportunity towards posting a win was perhaps locked down. Mathews and Karunaratne played with composure and batting nous to propel the score to 218 for 2 when the latter fell to Tim Southee. By then, the left-handed batsman had put Sri Lanka firmly in control of the proceedings with the home side needing just under 50 runs for a victory.
Kusal Perera, who survived a caught-at-gully decision by taking the review, slogged a few before he was dislodged by Trent Boult. The experienced Mathews and Dhananjaya de Silva then duly provided the finishing touches to help Sri Lanka script a famous win. Meanwhile, New Zealand would be left to ponder about all those fluffed chances in the second innings. In a Test match where fortunes swung back and forth, dropped catches proved to be costly in the end.
Brief scores: New Zealand 249 (Ross Taylor 86; Akila Dananjaya 5-80, Suranga Lakmal 4-29) and 285 (BJ Watling 77; Lasith Embuldeniya 4-99) lost to Sri Lanka 267 (Niroshan Dickwella 61; Ajaz Patel 5-89) and 268/4 (Dimuth Karunaratne 122, Lahiru Thirimanne 64; Tim Southee 1-33) by six wickets.

Pakistani-origin batsman Usman Khawaja, one of the first few Asian origin players to compete at national level for Australia, in his latest blog opens up about racism and sports in Australia, saying that he does not support Australia like other immigrant children because he felt the country did not believe in him.
Usman, in the piece penned for PlayersVoice, says he was sceptical when people would say that they had not been able to play for Australia because they had the wrong skin colour until he found out why they said it.
He remembers being called a 'curry muncher' which, he says, was particularly hurtful. But, he says, it also helped him.
"Being racially vilified actually made me stronger in many respects. I even had a couple of kids try to fight me one day heading home from school. For no reason either! They were in my class one second and the school bell rang — the next minute I’m just about to leave the gates of my school and they are having a go at me," Usman, the founding contributor of PlayersVoice, shares.
Like other immigrant children, Usman too did not support the Australian cricket team when he was young because they were not like him; rather, looked like those who had vilified him.
"It was either West Indies, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka. Anyone else. It’s probably why Brian Lara was my favourite cricketer. Let’s be honest, he was pretty good!"
"I was brought up to believe if I didn’t drink alcohol growing up I was un-Australian. So then why should I support a country that doesn’t believe in me?"
And then, there was the Australian team.
"I was brought up to be respectful, humble and polite. But when I watched the Aussie team, I saw men who were hard-nosed, confident, almost brutish. The same type of men who would sledge me about my heritage growing up."
He admits being embarrassed to call himself a Pakistani and used to say he was from Saudi Arabia, where his parents had spent a few years and he would often go to visit them.
But soon, he realised that racists were only a minority in Australia, and that the country was "also growing up when he was."
Refusing to accept that "he'd never make it to the Australian side", he says he worked to prove them wrong.
Years later, he was to become "the only Asian player at first class level in the whole country." He debuted for Australia in 2011 Sydney Ashes Test, becoming the first Muslim player to ever play cricket for Australia.
In the "changed" Australia, Usman was able to joke about race with his teammates. But he understands his privilege and that in another era, him even making it to the team — let alone share a laugh — would not have been possible.
"I count myself lucky to have a very strong-willed family. And a natural instinct that always wants to compete no matter what."
"If I didn’t have those things, I may also have been lost in the process," he says.
"There is no doubt racism and politics played a large roll in selections in the past. I’ve heard a few stories from past Anglo-Saxon players where this seems to be the case. It would just be the times that they lived in. Certainly cricket and society has come a long way," Usman says of how the society in Australia, and globally, progressed.
Even his "typical subcontinent Mum" wanted him to stop playing and focus on studies when he was just 10, Usman, who averages 46 in Tests, says.
"Fortunately for me, my Dad is the greatest cricket tragic of all time, and told my Mum I could do both."
"He understood you only get one shot at a sporting career. Stop now and that was the end of it."
About the emergence of multi-racial players in sports in Australia, he says: "Maybe it was inevitable with the growing multicultural community in Australia. Maybe it was a few friendly faces at the highest level. We will never know."
"What I do know is Australian cricket is slowly changing and will finally have a chance to reflect what Australia really is. An international team truly representative of its richly diverse population."

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