The out-of-form star’s rotten run continued in the Adelaide Oval nets as he copped a low blow from an Australian assistant coach. Watch the video.
Delivered with a “whanger”, designed to impart more spin and pace, the pink ball rears up from short of a length and follows Labuschagne. It hits amidships and sends him down to the ground like the proverbial sack of spuds – He lets out a theatrical howl of displeasure and takes a while to recover.Getty Images
There was a veritable rugby scrum of reporters and videographers competing to get shots of him from behind the nets on Tuesday afternoon, and he was watched also by the big and sunny crowd of fans who are welcomed to watch training in Adelaide. The shot that stood out from that perspective was a back-foot forcing shot, one of the toughest to play in the game but essential for a top-order player to score runs from the disciplined fourth and fifth-stump lines pursued by Test pacemen.There is risk in it.
As wicketkeeper Alex Carey said of dealing with Bumrah and others, it is a case of finding a way both to score and survive – the two being closely linked.
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