Nasty, Brutish, Short: Facing up to real pace

DEREK PRINGLE

@derekpringle

If the boos resounding around Headingley for Pat Cummins were meant to embarrass Australia’s captain on the opening day of the third Test, they paled in comparison to the chastening indignity he suffered after falling lbw to Mark Wood for a duck.
Cummins was so late in getting his bat down to one of Wood’s thunderbolts that he may as well have been in another time zone. But that is the power of authentic fast bowling – it messes with your disciplines along with just about everything else you thought you knew.
Wood finished Australia’s first innings with 5...

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