Marnus Labuschagne’s tortoise movement reminded him of the year 1984
The India vs Australia series has its own excitement. The first day of the Perth Test was fantastic. From now on, no team can be named ahead or behind. Meanwhile, as wickets fell one after another, Marnus Labuschagne’s batting remained a topic of discussion in itself. He didn’t go out and couldn’t score runs. This type of batting is often seen in Tests, but what Labuschagne did was not expected. His batting reminded me of the year 1984, when English batsman Richard Ellison had crossed the line.
Marnus Labuschagne did not open his account until 22 balls
Let’s talk first about Marnus Labuschagne, who today reached third place after the dismissal of Usman Khawaja. He was expected to work to strengthen his team after recovering from the first setback. But he wasn’t ready to score runs. He did not score any in his first 22 balls. He made his first run with the 23rd ball. The interesting thing is that he played 52 balls and during this period he could only score 2 runs. Let alone six, he didn’t even have a four to his name. If we talk about strike rate, it was 3.85. Seeing this hit rate, you might start laughing. But even before this, a batsman had done worse than this against India.
Richard Ellison did not score any runs after playing 52 balls against India.
The year is 1984. Then a test match between India and England was being played in Mumbai. In the second innings of the match, English batsman Richard Ellison faced 52 balls and did not have any runs in his account. This is even more surprising than that. The people reading this news may not have even been born during that match, but today Marnus Labuschagne’s batting suddenly reminded him of that match too. Now if we talk about the history of Indian Test cricket, Marnus Labuschagne has become the second batsman to score the fewest runs against India even after playing 50 balls. Richard Ellison is still number one and may always remain so.
Marnus got the team into trouble
Marnus Labuschagne is among the world’s greatest hitters. He also scored a lot of runs for Australia, but he seemed to be in a different zone today. Only he knows if he couldn’t play properly or didn’t play well, but his team definitely seems to be in trouble right now since he only scored two runs despite playing so many balls. Now it remains to be seen how Marnus bats in the second innings of the Australian team’s match.
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