D/L wrote:Words fail me for once.
D/L wrote:Words fail me for once.
D/L wrote:Words fail me for once.
D/L wrote:Words fail me for once.
D/L wrote:Words fail me for once.
D/L wrote:Words fail me for once.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Best innings against England of the year.
3. Chris Rogers, 52 at Edgbaston.
Which is the better, the epic innings in convivial circumstances, or the improbable but brief resistance in formidable conditions? Rogers scored 173 at Lord's, adding 284 with Steve Smith. In the second innings he took a blow on the head that he didn't seem to entirely recover from for the rest of the series. Australia won by 405 runs. In the ten days before the Birmingham Test, the Edgbaston ground staff used heat lamps to ensure a covering of live grass on the Test pitch, and Michael Clarke foolishly (hubristicly?) decided to bat first. James Anderson bowled the tourists out for 136. There was a sense of doubt about Rogers after the blow he took from Mark Wood. But Rogers provided the only significant resistance England faced in the first innings in either of the midlands Tests, both played on the far side of the conditions possible in England. At Edgbaston, he was eighth out with 110 on the board, the ground grassy underfoot, the sky locked down with dismal grey and rain.
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