Nathan Lyon, Australia’s new attack-dog-in-chief, says that his side are delighted that the pace attack he has hyped up were still able to bounce England’s batsmen out on even the deadest of Gabba wickets. Dawid Malan and Moeen Ali put on 83 runs and were grinding out a formidable total on the second morning, but Mitchell Starc went round the wicket, set a leg trap with two men back and Malan — despite splitting the field once — fell into it, top-edging a pull. That set about a collapse of six wickets for 56 runs in an hour’s play and England were bundled out for 302 at lunch, with Jonny Bairstow, Jake Ball and Stuart Broad also dismissed by short balls. Australia suffered a collapse…

Source: The Times November 24, 2017 12:00 UTC