The action crackled and fizzed while Australia and India locked horns in a Test that adds further intrigue for the Ashes
ine in the morning, and Oval station is heaving. People are spilling out of trains and pressing along the narrow platforms, shuffling up and out towards the street. The announcer takes a break from repeating his plea for everyone to “please be patient on the escalators”, and mutters “four more days of this” underneath his breath. “Five” a passer-by tells him with a smile, “if we lose a day for rain”. The platform man rolls his eyes.
For Starc, just watching that match was enough to make him want to play in one himself. “When we missed out on the first one, it was like, well, there we go, we want to be there, right?” Australia would have made it that year if they hadn’t been docked four points for a slow over rate in a Test against India. The fact there was a title to win, and that, of all teams, New Zealand had won it instead of them, was all the context they needed to make sense of this competition.
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