This Ashes series is only seven days old but a remarkable turnaround is already required from the visitors to make it anything like a contest. cricket TheAshes
Mitchell Starc has revealed how close Australia came to having their entire first-choice attack wiped out by a COVID scare, after he and Nathan Lyon kept the home side’s foot on England’s throat in the second Test.
“It was just fortunate we were sitting outside. It was almost a bit of a piss take because Pat didn’t reply to a message we thought we’d sit away from him and sit outside,” Starc said. “That’s pretty lucky.” On available evidence, the Australians are a class above Joe Root’s England side, whose best is competitive but worst is barely Test level.The absence of Cummins and Hazlewood was felt during a wicketless first session but once Cameron Green broke another considerable partnership between Root and Dawid Malan during an incisive spell after tea, Australia steamrolled the visitors’ hapless batters.
There was an added bonus in the final hour when Harris, under the pump after a lean start to the series, gave himself a chance to play a potentially career-defining knock by seeing off James Anderson and Stuart Broad.Encouragingly for Harris, he remained calm, at least outwardly, after a breakdown in communication led to David Warner being run out. That Warner gave up his wicket was a tacit admission by the veteran of his culpability.
He outwitted Malan in his first over, enticing the No.3 to chase back-to-back square boundaries to a ball which was too close to his body to play with a horizontal bat.
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