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77th over: Australia 237-5 (Head 50, Paine 1) Shami is back. Head gets off strike by dropping into a gap in the covers, and Paine gets off the mark the same way. Head flicks a couple, then some sharp running by Paine from the far end gives Head his 50th run after Head just dropped a ball a few metres from his feet with a defensive stroke.
76th over: Australia 232-5 (Head 46) Marsh out from the last ball of that over. Since when does Shaun Marsh make 60 and 45? Neither a hundred nor a duck. I don’t know what to make of it. The captain Paine will be in next, looking boyish and cheery on the stadium’s big screens. “The toughest pretty boy I’ve ever met,” was how his coach Justin Langer described him the other day.
Written by Adam Collins (earlier), Sam Perry (earlier) and Geoff Lemon (now)
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