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Woakes smashes through the purple stumps with his white missile and it is hard to see Australia mentally rebuilding from here.
33rd over: Australia 146-5 ( Carey 0, Maxwell 1) Just a leg bye off the over and that is the end of Archer’s spell – 3-34; ten overs of bottled poison. WinViz, now has England favourites. And as it isn’t human it doesn’t account for Morgan’s magic and the fact England are on a roll.
Darrel Boulcott points out the dangers of batters choking on gum and asks if there’s “a medical recommendation on this subject?”. writes Jeffrey Earp. Well yes there is, the Heimlich manoeuvre. It’s the medics’ equivalent of the reverse sweep so never fear, it’s in every decent cricketer’s repertoire.The bigger question is how to deal with batters choking scoreboard-wise. A much harder sporting pathology to treat.
