Australia v England scores, results, start time, wickets, teams, how to watch
Brydon Carse’s bowling for most of Friday could be summed up by the poem the Barmy Army penned for Mitchell Johnson during the 2010/11 Ashes season.
“He throws it left, he bowls it right, Mitchell Johnson, his bowling…” . You get the picture.
Just as England were heading towards the point of no return, Carse transformed from whipping boy to England’s most unlikely provider of hope.
As for the plots, they don’t come any weirder than Carse tricking Cameron Green and Steve Smith with bumper bombing; Steve Smith falls to a one-handed screamer from Will Jacks.
Until his third spell, Carse’s pitching map resembled a scattering scheme to match his scattergun approach.
Brydon Carse’s course map midway through the second day.Credit: Fox Cricket
It was the worst of an attack that was unfavorably compared to third-class level by Mark Waugh, labeled “terrible” by Matthew Hayden and lacking “sharpness of brain” by England great Stuart Broad, one of the most sober critics of the visitors’ meltdown in Perth.
Captains need to have control over the bowlers to set the field. Unable to group enough balls in the same areas when bowling conventionally, Carse was sent into the bumper barrage with five boundary drives (two behind square, one in front of square, a fly slip and a deep third) as cover.
With leads in place, Smith and Green took over the short work and plundered 17 laps over Carse’s first bumper.
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Moving to the other end, Carse opened with a bouncer that sailed well above the 198 centimeters high Green, which was called wide.
Anticipating the eighth successive short ball, Green again dropped back early, but bowled a full delivery, was in no position to bowl and bowled. Three balls later, Smith pulled Carse clumsily but could not save Jacks’ right hand.
“I think they might have been lulled into a false sense of security,” Waugh told Kayo Sports.
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