Watch: Ben Stokes drops Steve Smith at leg-slip as thigh knocks ball out of hand moments before celebration | Ashes 2023

Watch: Ben Stokes dropped Steve Smith at leg gully off Moeen Ali’s bowling in the last over before Lunch on Day Five of the fifth Ashes Test, just as he was about to throw the ball in the air to celebrate taking the catch.

Australia started the final day of the 2023 Ashes at the Kia Oval on 135-0, needing another 249 runs to complete a 3-1 series victory. However, their top order was wrecked by Chris Woakes and Mark Wood early in the morning. Woakes got rid of both openers David Warner and Usman Khawaja, and Wood accounted for Marnus Labuschagne, getting him to edge one behind to second slip.

From 140-0, Australia slipped to 169-3.

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