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*Official* Fourth Test at the MCG
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Bill calling over with 3 balls bowled
Spark
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Even session? Nah, 1/71 is great if slightly lucky work.
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Our session by a small margin, given that we were put in, but could very easily go back the other way with a couple of quick wickets after lunch, which - given the way Root's feet aren't moving - could happen any time soon.
Factor in run rate being very slow (as normal) and the fact Australia didn't bowl that well for about half of the session. Don't think Aus will be too disappointed.
Spark
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Yeah I'm not too miffed but 1/71 is hardly awful. Hard to blame pre-lunch batting for any post-lunch collapses, unless Carberry had gotten out there.
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Harris went for 5 runs for the session.
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Archive footage. I love the utterly casual, disinterested way that Venkat gave people out.
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Yeah I'm calling that session even at best from an England pov. Normally if you were put into bat and were 70/1 you'd say session to the batsmen for sure.......just doesn't feel like that here though at all.
If we'd have lost Carbs instead of Cook we'd probably be 90 odd for 1 here and I'd be feeling very happy. As it is with Cook gone so has the "intent", and if England are going to salvage anything out of these last 2 tests it was always going to rest on the shoulders of skip.......England needed him to lead this charge from the front. Cook will be absolutely gutted how he went out and rightly so, he talked all the right talk this week but it needed to transfer into a performance here and it hasn't.
If we'd have lost Carbs instead of Cook we'd probably be 90 odd for 1 here and I'd be feeling very happy. As it is with Cook gone so has the "intent", and if England are going to salvage anything out of these last 2 tests it was always going to rest on the shoulders of skip.......England needed him to lead this charge from the front. Cook will be absolutely gutted how he went out and rightly so, he talked all the right talk this week but it needed to transfer into a performance here and it hasn't.