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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Geoff Lemon at Adelaide Oval

Pat Cummins primed to pop the corks after bursting England’s fragile bubble

Pat Cummins roars with joy after dismissing Joe Root
Pat Cummins roars after snaring Joe Root, the wicket that in all likelihood sealed the series for Australia. Photograph: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images

On a redundancy scale, attending the Adelaide Test and noting that Pat Cummins was good is in the realm of noting that the Torrens was wet or the cathedral was spiky. Still, on day four, any one of those obvious things might justifiably have caught an observer’s eye.

Perhaps it’s more notable just how natural, how inevitable, it felt that Cummins was indeed bowling at his best in his first match back after a stress fracture cost him the first two Tests of this Ashes series and any match preparation before that.

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