Over-by-over updates from day three of the first Test at the GabbaRoot’s meticulous approach pays Ashes dividends for EnglandAnd feel free to email Adam or tweet him @collinsadam 1.55am GMT 86th over: Australia 212-7 (Smith 81, Cummins 1) We’re about 12 minutes away from lunch. Broad will get a couple more of those. Smith and Cummins both grab singles into the leg side, the latter off the mark. I don’t think they have had the chance to leave a single delivery since the second new ball was taken. Jimmy Anderson v Steve Smith in that 85th over: one for the purists. 1.51am GMT 85th over: Australia 210-7 (Smith 80, Cummins 0) Shout for leg before! Smith hit by Anderson, but denied. It’s high, he isn’t offering a shot, but Aleem Dar isn’t convinced and England aren’t reviewing. Another shout later in the over, but it is well down leg, they rotate the strike for the first time since Cummins arrived in the middle. “I didn’t learn much off John Buchanan,” starts Shane Warne. Goodness me, how sad. He then rattles off a stat that if there are three maidens on the trot you are 85 percent more likely to take a wicket in the next over. It follows on from Warne saying the other day that he heard that in multiple choice questions, 85 percent of the time the answer is ‘B’. What a ~coincidence~. Continue reading…
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