Thanks for your company on a pulsating opening day. Geoff’s hastily rewritten feature will be here soon, and we’ll be back for the second – maybe even the final – day in the morning. Goodnight!
At the time, with Australia on top, Nathan Lyon’s spell of 5-1-23-0 seemed like a minor detail. Now it feels like a waste of 23 precious runs.
Australia aren’t out of this but they surely need Alex Carey to get them to at least 100. It’s hard to make sense of it all after such a dramatic day.
It’s worth stressing that the pitch wasn’t dangerous or uneven. The ball zinged through, as it always should in Perth. When you couple that with some extravagant sideways movement, particularly when India bowled, it’s no surprise that 17 wickets fell.
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