Little wonder that Lyon, while noting the loss of wisdom and “mongrel” that those long-time servants brought to the playing field during the reign of Michael Clarke, believes the current crop is capable of creating some enduring history for themselves. “It’s just a really good environment”.
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Smith noted Cricket Australia had given players a “few pointers of what to do if there was a big earthquake”.
“I thought Usman Khawaja and Adam Voges did that really well in the last test match”.
“We’ve had to work hards for our wickets in Australia over the past six months, the wickets have been quite flat”.
“Patto obviously wasn’t right for that first Test”, Smith said.
“I’m not sure how it goes here whether it dries out quite quickly or not, we’ll wait and see in the morning”.
The Victorian, who was not risked for the first game of the series, is happy with the way he has progressed, “I think I bowled close to 35 overs so I’m full of confidence now”. And considering how dominant the visitors were in the first Test, they are hot favourites to win the second Test match too.
Stuart Broad is the No. 1-ranked bowler, leading India’s Ravichandran Ashwin by just one point.
The events of 2011 resonated with both teams since before they arrived in Christchurch on Wednesday.
In 61 Tests Siddle has taken 208 wickets for Australia. Australia won the match by an innings and 52 runs Monday.
“We played really well in the first Test to adapt and it’s going to be important to do that a lot”.
“For me it’s satisfying [if we] get that ranking”. “The challenge for a young group is how they play away from home and I’m pleased with the way we have started this tour”, Lehmann told reporters. When you’re number one you want to stretch that as a group.
After suffering another bout of back spasms, Peter Siddle has been replaced by James Pattinson for the second Trans-Tasman Test.
“I think that’s understandable (that Bird took some time to find his rhythm), it was his first game back for a little while, he was a little bit nervous”.
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“It looks pretty similar to the last wicket the day before the game”.
