Ashes 2021-22 3rd Test, Day 3: Australia v England – LIVE!

…but that final hour – oh, that final hour – it deals with the attack on Australia in the most brutal, thrilling fashion possible. Pat Cummins was fantastic. Mitchell Starc was on a hat-trick. But it’s the influence of local debutant Scott Boland that caught Geoff Lemon Eye.

Boland’s story is in many ways representative of the treatment of Indigenous Australians In the modern avatar of the country. He didn’t know about his heritage until he was in his 20s, when his family learned that Boland’s grandfather was a descendant of the Gulijn people of western Victoria. For so many people and for so long, that kind of legacy was hidden or overlooked. Instead the Boland family adopted it in a process of learning, which is still ongoing.

If a football game is a ‘two halves game’, yesterday’s game at the MCG was a six-hour game. The first five were from England, and Jimmy Anderson…

But, of course, Anderson can do it only in England. Never mind that he now averages partially better (33 more shadows) than at home in Ashes Tests. Or that he averages 12 in away Tests this decade. Anderson’s caricature as the green-wicket phenomenon remains a stubbornly persistent myth, even within his own camp. Surely you suspect that this contributed to his omission in Brisbane and later the Rusty in Adelaide. By the time Anderson was finally in motion, the Ashes was over.

Geoff is thinking like an Australian. In England we call this kind of logic fantasy.

Rob Lewis won the award for the first email of the day.

“Spring a thought for my son Josh – known to his friends as the Duke. He married his Australian love, Ella, in August, and soon after the wedding he had plans to move from Cambridge to Melbourne. So the Duke bought tickets for several Ashes matches, being a staunch cricket follower, occasional spinner and umpire. Flights were delayed by Covid until just before Christmas, and without quarantine, he will finally get to see some cricket today – third day of testing! but it’s going to be Some Cricket, not much, I imagine. As if all the ribbing and barracking from his new Australian family isn’t enough, he will witness the absurdity of this total dedication. Leave a thought for the boy.”

As a dual citizen (born in the UK, now at home in Australia) I can sympathize. Now, Rob, make sure he avoids St. Kilda when he chooses an AFL team to support, or his pain will increase every winter as well.

We have less than an hour to start the game, plenty of time to enjoy the latest last word podcast.

So what will happen today? Will Joe Root and Ben Stokes tie the knot for one of those days? Will Australia end England’s resistance before lunch? Can England get enough lead to start a nervous run chase?

To give you all you need to think about at Guardian Towers, Rob Smith is already ready to step into the field as England’s No 7 watches his side’s openers guard the new ball.

To give you an idea of ​​where we are in this fast-paced test, here it is but Martin’s Report from the stumps on the second day.

Root, who had reached an unbeaten 12 with Ben Stokes for the company, may be reaching the point where he is carried with the burden of captaincy. And at least a day later, despite news that two coaches and two family members at the touring party had tested positive for Covid-19, their side displayed a renewed fight on this green MCG pitch , only for this to be undone by a vertex. The order is still made of balsa wood.