Five Extraordinary First Balls In Ashes History

England‘s Rory Burns has an undesirable place within the report books after changing into solely the second batsman to be out to the first ball of an Ashes collection. Let's have a look at 5 mem

5) Covid restrictions and poor climate meant England’s prime order had little significant time within the centre going into the first Test, once more in Brisbane.

It confirmed as Burns’s nervous footwork noticed him shuffle to the offside and expose his leg stump to Mitchell Starc‘s full, quick supply.

Angled in the direction of the leg aspect, any batsman in good nick would have regarded such a ball as an early Christmas current and despatched it to the boundary.

But Burns is a notoriously sluggish starter and he fell for his sixth duck in 2021, equalling essentially the most by an England participant in a calendar yr, together with bowlers Jimmy Anderson (2013) and Stuart Broad (2018).