Shamar Joseph feeling the love after his fifth wicket.Credit:Getty
Next ball,he skies a top-edged pull up over the slips. Third man Greaves takes it on the first bounce.
A Smith single brings Starc back on strike and Joseph pushes 147km/h with a short ball. He swings hard again and toes the ball high into the air for Kevin Sinclair to take a simple catch at cover.
Joseph sinks to the turf after claiming his second five-wicket haul in his first two Tests. He has five wickets and has gone at more than seven an over.
Pat Cummins is at the crease and,after a single,Joseph almost cracks 150km/h to Smith,who thumps a single to third man. With Cummins back on strike,Joseph delivers a brute of a ball.
It angles in and the skipper fends awkwardly,only able to edge through to a diving Joshua Da Silva behind the stumps. Smith is beaten two balls later,flashing at a short ball.
Joseph’s 10th straight over is the last before dinner and he’s still pushing 144km/h,mostly back of a length and targeting Lyon with short balls.
Dinner Break
Alzarri Joseph has Lyon caught behind at the other end and Shamar strives for the final wicket. His first ball of the session is pulled audaciously by Smith to the mid-wicket boundary.
Shamar Joseph’s bowling breakdown.Credit:ESPN Cricinfo.
Joseph follows up by smashing him on the glove with a short ball that just evades a fielder in the gully. He gets two balls at Josh Hazlewood to finish the over but wastes one with a full,wide ball.
Smith has taken eight runs from Alzarri Joseph’s intervening over,including a spectacularly ramped six straight out of his T20 playbook. Joseph begins his 12th over to the Australian with a 146 km/h bouncer that has Smith ducking late. It’s a beauty. Facing a spread field,he then carves out two to third man and brings the deficit to single figures with a run punched backward of point.
Hazlewood has two balls to survive. Joseph goes around the wicket. He rolls in with four slips. The ball whips in towards Hazlewood,launching at 142.9km/h. It pitches just outside off stump,Hazlewood prods forward,and the woodwork is flattened. History is made.
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