OPINION: If you don't get why people like cricket, last night in Perth is a good place to start
Hazlewood's departure with injury in the next over should have taken some of the life out of the contest, the tall fast bowler abandoning an over with a hamstring twinge. But Pat Cummins took over and the spark continued.
Every ball became an event, every detail a story element, in a passage of play that fizzed and tickled and bubbled in the nostrils like a couple of Berocca eaten dry. What a picture: Australia's former wicketkeeper, steaming in for the eighth over of a Perth Test match with a new ball. Wade hot-shoe-shuffling to the crease like it was 3:00am on the dancefloor, whanging down bouncers like a last hurrah. Magic happens at night.
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