![]() ![]() So hopefully it is not a trend for the whole series. It has been hard work for the seamers and ultimately we are looking to entertain, have fun and get the crowd jumping and it is quite a difficult pitch to get play-and-misses on and nicks to slip. “It is certainly one of the slowest pitches I can remember bowling on in England. It is pretty characterless so far, pretty soulless, but you can only judge a surface towards the end of the match and see how it develops. Speaking to BBC Sport, he added: “It is a very slow, low surface that saps the energy out of the ball. ![]() While that trademark burst with the crowd behind him gave Broad “feelings that will live with me forever”, he was less than impressed with an Edgbaston surface that has offered scant lateral movement for the seamers and not seen a single catch go to the slip cordon off them during the first two days. Steve Smith survived the hat-trick ball, Broad straying down leg as he tried to produce a magic delivery. You can’t do anything about it now and you just have to find your rhythm and keep hitting the pitch hard.”īroad had lit up the morning session, finding himself on a hat-trick in the seventh over of the day when he removed David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne in the space of two balls. Stuart Broad bemoaned a soulless pitch and his own struggles with the front line after a fine unbeaten century from Australia’s Usman Khawaja left the first Ashes Test of the summer. ![]() “It was a close call, but it’s still a no ball. Buffy meets Jane Austen in the first book of this wickedly funny NYT bestselling series about a young woman whose brush with the supernatural leads to a. The outfield was a little bit spongy, so you are trying to gain from the outfield. The first day in the field in the Ashes, the emotions are high, you are charging in. “I’ve probably bowled more today than I have in a Test match before and I think there’s a couple of reasons for that. “It was a great ball and it’s very hard to put it at the back of your mind,” said Broad, reflecting on a day that saw him claim two for 49 but also no-balled six times. ![]()
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