Australia split Joe Root’s box prior to landing three more painful blows to shift the balance of drama from England at Old Trafford…
Josh Hazlewood reignited Australia’s hopes of an victory at Old Trafford after Joe Root and Rory Burns had anchored England’s comeback day three of the fourth Test.
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Root (71) – on the floor where he struck a career-best 254 against Pakistan three decades ago and averages 99.16 – and Burns (81) shared a third-wicket stand of 141, just for Hazlewood (4-48) to dismiss them both and Jason Roy (22) as England closed a rain-shortened day on 200-5, 297 runs behind Australia and having a further 98 to prevent the follow on.
England’s sloppy fielding arrived under the microscope on day two but it was. Root had 58 runs on his title when he looked to work a full delivery from Pat Cummins through the leg-side, only to snick a major edge behind. The seamer had his man – so he thought – until the statuesque was bisected by the chunk wicketkeeper first slip David Warner and Tim Paine.
“We’ve seen Warner have a couple to his left in the series but that has to be the wicketkeeper’s catch,” said Mike Atherton. “It was not like the’keeper was wrong-footed either. If something Paine took half-a-step into his right so he was gong the perfect way but then he chose not to go in any way.”
How important are maidens? England’s bowlers mustered just 12 since Australia wrapped together at in their first innings – the home side unable to maintain pressure that the assault of Australia did on day .
The tourists’ three quick bowlers refused to allow Joe Root and hit the pitch consistently and Rory Burns score freely in their century stand that was yearlong – by bagging 3-16 in one 47, that the strain followed up another remarkable Pat Cummins display.
The stats reveal that while Australia joined up the dots once in every five overs, England bowled a maiden after every 10. Together with England needing 98 more to avert the follow-on, that build-up of stress might just prove notification.
Nasser Hussain:”Burns and Root have played closely. Outside of all the openers in this show Burns has burst out, using a hundred at Lord’s and now this innings here. For England, there can’t be any dismissals – it is a fantastic surface for the seamers, with excellent bounce. Do not give Australia anything because then they come in a pack.”
Isa Guha:”Joe Root has spoken about utilizing Ben Stokes’ knock because the blueprint for how they need to violin, giving themselves some time from the middle to see what it is doing – and that is exactly what they do possess, lots of time left in this Evaluation.”
England fast bowling coach Chris Silverwood:”We have got to be more careful with Jofra – he is enjoying his third Test match. We’ve got to cut him a little bit of flak – he’s still finding his way. But he’s put the workload in and we’ve seen what he’s capable of but he’s not likely to do it every day.”
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