Adam Collins, in Ranchi for the third Test, explains that there is no substitute for sheer pace as a young quick returns
All signs pointed to it being the bleakest of days at the cricket. Australia had been routed at Trent Bridge the week before, the famous urn had been returned.
Yet here the Australians were, at Northants, for a tour game ahead of the final rubber of the 2015 Ashes, reduced to two days alone due to rain.
Then Pat Cummins showed up. Called into the squad after Josh Hazlewood’s body had given way, the nondescript weekend suddenly had meaning.
It invariably does when...
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