If you shed a tall left-hander, he can swing it tonight if he can get below 145 km/h on the day, and he learned to take it out with a now-famous habit, and then a famous middleman.
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He is not captain, not pat cummins. He’s not “Benmeer Bullet”, Josh Hazlewood. He is not Glenn, Dennis Lilley, Jason Gillespie or even Bruce Reid, his injuries are one of the biggest banes of Australian cricket.
But when his best of 7-58 reduced England to just 172 on the first day of the Test, Starc did not ensure how many questions were asked about where he was in the bowling pantheon.
This is a series of leading man performances with lilli, mcgratia or barmmins.
Read Dan Brettig’s full analysis here.
