Here’s Kim Thonger and he’s not happy. “I wonder if you could ask England to stop taking wickets quite so regularly. I’m trying to multi-task, following the OBO while also booking skis, boots, helmets and lift passes online via the Ski Club of Great Britain app, which is frankly requiring more attention than I’m able to give while stumps and bails are flying hither and thither. Thank you, most kind.”
“Morning Tim!” It’s my friend and yours, Emma John. “I’m watching this session from Perth where it’s just coming up 9.30am and already a lot warmer than Melbourne. I’ll miss most of the afternoon’s play flying over there so I’m just hoping England can keep this up while I’m in the air… My Perth family, who considered themselves Aussie through the first three Tests, have suddenly remembered that they’re English!”
25th over: Australia 72-4 (Khawaja 21, Carey 9) Atkinson beats Carey again, angling the ball in from round the wicket, then nipping it away. Carey dabs the next ball down into the gully, where Jacob Bethell makes another of his fine stops – and shows us his underpants, which are bright blue Budgy Smugglers. “I wonder if he realises,” says one of the commentators, “that his trousers are drawstring.”
