Travis Head gets reward for attacking flair and rescues Hobart’s Ashes debut | Geoff Lemon

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Batter’s quickfire century hauls Australia out of trouble and silences criticism of Bellerive Oval’s emerald green pitch

n the first afternoon of Hobart’s Ashes debut, the knives were out for Bellerive Oval. Australia had lost David Warner, Usman Khawaja and Steve Smith for a combined six runs, while Australia as a team had scored 12. The pitch looked like it belonged to the Emerald City.

But there were no more unplayables. The first batting partnership barrage ended when Labuschagne bizarrely went wandering outside off, leaving Broad an untended set of stumps to knock over. Those bloody green pitches, hey? It was a telling intervention from a player whose approach to the game has changed. Always regarded domestically as an attacking type, Head’s batting strike rate in Test cricket before this series was 49. Through the current series he has scored at 87. He looked liberated in doing so at the Gabba, which flowed into a fast fifty in Adelaide and now this hundred.In Hobart, Head played attacking shots to almost half of the deliveries he faced, a rate he has never exceeded before.

 

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