Pat Cummins has insisted Mitch Marsh’s Test career isn’t over after Australia made the call to drop the struggling all-rounder for the SCG and replace him with the tall Tasmanian Beau Webster.
The best thing about day five of a Test match is that there is everything to play for. And on this day,Australia held their nerve.
In 2004,Sachin Tendulkar shelved the cover drive on his way to a famous unbeaten double century in Sydney. Virat Kohli may have to follow suit if he is to bow out of Test cricket on his own terms.
Australia has a lead of 333 runs with one wicket in hand after a terrific rearguard effort led by Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon dimmed India’s hopes in the Boxing Day Test.
A calamitous mix-up between Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal sparked a flurry of wickets that gave Australia the upper hand on day two of the fourth Test.
Andy Pycroft – who also presided over the Cape Town Test in 2018 – charged Kohli with a level-one offence for “inappropriate physical contact”,the most lenient grade of the ICC’s code of conduct.
The young debutant has restored the game as Australia’s sport,magnetic to watch and worth arguing over
Virat Kohli is free to play in the Sydney Test after avoiding a suspension for his physical altercation with Australia’s boy wonder Sam Konstas.
After a tour in which the visiting Indian team has had to monitor crowd numbers at training including when about 5000 supporters turned up in Adelaide,there was a different mood at the MCG nets ahead of Boxing Day.
Cautiousness and a creeping self-doubt that stems from poor performances and heightened scrutiny:it’s the story of every great batter who faces the inevitability of time.