Daily Mail, Friday, August 23, 201991
T P SPIN
AT THE TEST
LAWRENCE BOOTH
AT HEADINGLEY
JOFRA ARCHER’S figures of six
for 45, despite barely touching
90mph all day, were England’s
best in a Test at Headingley for
more than 20 years. You have
to go back to 1998 for a better
analysis, when Darren Gough
claimed six for 42 to help
defeat South Africa.JOFRA GIVES US
SIX OF THE BEST
STUART BROAD has had a
knack in this series of
taking wickets before the
batsman has settled in. Of his 12
victims, 10 have not reached
double figures, while another —
Pat Cummins — was dismissed
for 20. The one exception? That
was Steve Smith, bowled by
Broad in the first innings at
Edgbaston for 144.THANKS to the hospitality of
Glamorgan, Marnus
Labuschagne, who batted in
the second innings at Lord’s as
a concussion substitute for
Steve Smith, came into this
Test with more first-class runs
this summer than anyone in
the country. Labuschagne
eased himself into English
(and Welsh) conditions by
scoring 1,114 Division Two runs
for his county, including five
centuries. He has also made 15
and nine not out for the
Australians against
Worcestershire, 59 at Lord’s
and now a high-class 74 at
Headingley.LABUSCHAGNE’S
FEELING AT HOME
AS RUNS FLOW
NO ONE has had a more
lop-sided series than
Australia’s No 6, Matthew Wade.
Of the 118 runs he has scored in
five innings, 110 of them came in
the second innings at
Edgbaston, where he feasted
on the part-time leg-breaks of
Joe Denly and the low-on-
confidence off-spin of Moeen
Ali. Other than that, his scores
read one, six, one and nought.WHEN Broad bowled
Travis Head with the
delivery of the day — a beauty
that passed the left-handed
Head’s outside edge before
clipping the top of off stump —
it was his 44th Test wicket at
Headingley. That equalled
Fred Trueman’s record at this
venue, though Trueman’s
wickets cost just 18 apiece to
Broad’s 26.DAVID WARNER became
the first Australian opener
to pass 16 in 10 attempts this
series during the course of his
61, but he enjoyed plenty of luck
early on. According to CricViz,
34 per cent of Australia’s shots
in their first 25 overs were
categorised as ‘false’ — their
fourth-highest such figure since
those records began in 2006.
Australia’s three totals in those
games were 60, 47 and 88.one-way system, bowled
noticeably slower than he did at
Lord’s, where he took five wickets
in the match and hit Steve Smith
on the helmet, forcing him out of
this Test.
But he said the drop in pace was
deliberate. ‘It wasn’t a short-ball
wicket. It was a bit soft on the
top, so you don’t always need to
run in and bowl at 90 miles an
hour to get wickets,’ he
explained.
Australian opener David Warner,
who scored 61 after reaching
double figures for the first time in
the series, was full of praise for
Archer’s performance, comparing
him with former South Africa
Test great Dale Steyn.
‘That was incredible Test
bowling,’ he said. ‘As a left-
hander, Stuart Broad is going to
challenge your off-stump a lot —
the same as Jofra. It’s a bit like
how Dale Steyn with the new ball
tried to use the conditions and
then ramp it up when he needed
to. That was world-class bowling
at its best.’
After celebrating his first Test
fifty since his year-long ban for
his part in the sandpaper ball-
tampering scandal, Warner
received an earful from fans in
Headingley’s Western Terrace.
And the jeering continued as he
addressed the media after play
when a group of England
supporters spotted him through
the window of the press-
conference room.
‘They pay to come in and watch
cricket and are allowed to carry
on if they want,’ he said. ‘If they
carry on too much they get
evicted. But it’s hard enough
trying to hit a swinging and
seaming ball without worrying
about what the crowd are doing.’THE ASHES
England v Australia
(Day 1 of 5)
EMERALD HEADINGLEY: England won the toss.
AUSTRALIA — First Innings
Balls 4s 6s
D Warner c Bairstow b Archer ............ 61 94 7 0
M Harris c Bairstow b Archer ............... 8 12 2 0
U Khawaja c Bairstow b Broad ............ 8 17 1 0
M Labuschagne lbw b Stokes ........... 74 129 10 0
T Head b Broad .................................... 0 6 0 0
M Wade b Archer.................................. 0 3 0 0
*†T Paine lbw b Woakes .................... 11 26 1 0
J Pattinson c Root b Archer ................ 2 8 0 0
P Cummins c Bairstow b Archer .......... 0 13 0 0
N Lyon lbw b Archer............................. 1 4 0 0
J Hazlewood not out ............................ 1 3 0 0
Extras (b4, lb2, w5, nb2) ................. 13Total (52.1 overs) 179
Fall: 12, 25, 136, 138, 139, 162, 173, 174, 177.
Bowling: Broad 14-4-32-2, Archer 17.1-3-45-6, Woakes
12-4-51-1, Stokes 9-0-45-1.SCOREBOARD
Jofra bowls
like Steyn
— Warner
From Back Page61, Warner fell to Archer without
further cost to England.
The umpires had been far too
quick to take the players off
during a frustrating morning and
early afternoon — cricket cannot
afford the embarrassment of
stopping play for bad light under
floodlights — but Gaffaney and
Joel Wilson stayed on when they
again looked at the light with
Australia 138 for four.
That was all the encourage-
ment Archer needed, fortunately
bowling Matthew Wade off his
glove and thigh pad and then
mopping up the tail once Chris
Woakes had got in on the act by
trapping Tim Paine, again with
the help of a review.
Through it all Labuschagne,
Smith’s concussion sub at
Lord’s, showed Australia how to
do it with proper Test batting in
English conditions and seem-
ingly relishing taking several hits
to his body.
It needed a full toss that clat-
tered into Labuschagne’s pads
and sent him crashing to the
ground from Stokes to eventu-
ally do for the man who warmed
up for this Ashes with a produc-
tive spell at Glamorgan.
That left who else but Archer
to have the final word with hisfirst ball from the Kirkstall Lane
End where fast bowlers have
traditionally flourished at
Headingley.
Root brought him back to
claim Nathan Lyon on the stroke
of the 7.30pm finish.
What a display again from
Archer and what a day for
England this eventually turned
out to be.
If the sun shines today and the
ball does less on this flat pitch
then they really should be able
to score enough runs to put this
Test out of Australia’s reach.
And then the Ashes really
would be ignited.5.15pm Warner brings up his first fifty
of the series by hitting Stokes for four.
5.37pm Australia lose three wickets
for three runs in the next 15 minutes.
Archer gets Warner for 61, Broad
dismisses Head for 0 and then Archer
bowls Wade to swing the momentum
England’s way. Australia 139-5.
6.41pm Paine out. Australia 162-6.
6.56pm Archer takes his fourth wicket
as Pattinson is caught. Australia 173-7.
7.14pm Archer gets his fifth wicket inthe form of Cummins. Australia 174-8.
7.24pm Labuschagne out. Australia 177-9.
7.29pm Archer claims a brilliant 6-45
and the visitors are all out for 179.
Australia lose their last eight wickets
for just 43 runs. Advantage England.