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How do you explain the NZ test, in that case?All I'll say is that it didn't surprise me at all that the blokes who dug us out of 4/27 were the guys with 160 and 70 Tests between them. They've seen it before, they've done it before, they won't be as unnerved by the situation by, for example, an Ed Cowan or Dave Warner.
Or the fact that Ponting and (to a lesser extent) Hussey have been famously awful at putting the brakes on Australian collapses for the past three years. Something doesn't quite add up.
Both had lbws that were out not given in the 20s too, ftr. There's nothing wrong with this- you can't recover from 24/4 without a little bit of luck somewhere along the line. But it is a bit tiresome that the narrative in sport always derives so heavily from the result when the result is so reliant on fortune.
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