They started their pursuit in good order too, first innings centurion Usman Khawaja surviving a chance fourth ball – an edge flying between Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root at first slip – before he and David Warner set about compiling a 61-run opening stand that calmed any Australian nerves.
This was yet more vintage Broad, a bowler about to turn 37 displaying all the skills and nous that have now delivered 587 Test wickets and removing the best two players in the world with it. Australia, not always famed for prevailing in tight affairs, won the fourth day. Faced with a team crackers enough to start with an attempted reverse scoop by Root first ball – and batting conditions largely restored to placid after the previous day’s brief ordeal under clouds – they allied skill with relentlessness in the field.
It helps to have a wily spinner like Lyon at one end and while he took some early tap once Boland was sent to graze, his removals of Root and Harry Brook for 46 runs apiece were pivotal. Root in particular was one for the scrapbook, this the first time he had been stumped in 240 Test innings as he shimmied down the track a fraction too early after drinks, was beaten in the air, and Alex Carey completed the formalities.
An afternoon in which England trowelled another 118 runs onto their pile saw the return of punch and counterpunch. Once again it was the guile of Lyon and the will of Cummins that proved the difference.
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