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20th over: Australia 157-7 (Cummins 13, Starc 2) The last over is entrusted to Archer, who set the tone so beautifully at the start. It doesn’t go well. He bowls a wide, then another one, as a slower-ball bouncer goes too high. Cummins flashes for four, then middles a mow for six to bring up the 150 in style. There’s another wide, so the over is threatening to go on for some time. Archer recovers with an exemplary yorker which he follows up by running out Agar. And then Starc gets enough of an inside edge to sneak two off the last ball. That’s 18 off the over, and Archer finishes with 4-0-32-1, when he was worth far more. Australia may have got out of jail – after that horror start, they’ve ended up only five short of England’s winning score the other night.
Meanwhile, a small piece of cricket history has unfolded: match abandoned because of a positive test for Covid.
Another direct hit, by Jofra Archer, off his own bowling. But Agar did pretty well.
Written by Tim de Lisle
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