

8 and then roused himself with the ball in the second innings when conditions afforded him some help. Pat Cummins 9 Was subdued on the first day, starting the moment Zak Crawley cracked him to the cover boundary on the first ball of the series.

Should England continue to prepare these pitches, he will be hugely difficult to dislodge. If there were times when some felt he may have tried to score more freely, Khawaja’s reliability contrasted with some of the more unsteady innings played around him. More than 500 balls negotiated, a century in the first innings and a second innings survival effort that got Australia to within 72 runs of their target before Pat Cummins finished the job. Usman Khawaja 9 Another keynote performance in Khawaja’s late-career surge through Test cricket.
