Marnus Labuschagne’s tortoise move reminded him of the year 1984
India vs Australia series has its own thrill. The first day of the Perth Test was fantastic. As of now no team can be called ahead or behind. Meanwhile, while wickets were falling one after the other, Marnus Labuschagne’s batting remained a topic of discussion in itself. He was neither getting out nor able to score runs. This kind of batting is often seen in Tests, but what Labuschagne did was not expected. His batting reminded me of the year 1984, when England batsman Richard Ellison had crossed the limits.
Marnus Labuschagne did not open his account till 22 balls
Let us first talk about Marnus Labuschagne, who came to bat at number three today after the dismissal of Usman Khawaja. It was expected that he would work to strengthen his team after recovering from the first setback. But he was not ready to score runs. He did not make any on his first 22 balls. He took his first run on the 23rd ball. The interesting thing is that he played 52 balls and during this period he was able to score only 2 runs. Leave alone no six, he did not even have a four in his name. If we talk about strike rate, it was 3.85. Seeing this strike rate, you may start laughing. But even before this, a batsman had done worse against India.
Richard Ellison did not score any runs after playing 52 balls against India.
It is about the year 1984. Then a test match was being played between India and England in Mumbai. In the second innings of the match, England batsman Richard Ellison faced 52 balls and did not have any runs in his account. This is even more amazing than that. It is possible that the people who are reading this news now 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 India’s Test cricket, Marnus Labuschagne has become the second batsman to score the least runs against India even after playing 50 balls. Richard Ellison is still at number one and may always remain so.
Marnus pushed the team into trouble
Marnus Labuschagne is counted among the great batsmen of the world. He has also scored a lot of runs for Australia, but today he appeared to be in a different zone. Only he knows whether he was not able to play properly or was not playing at all, but with him scoring only two runs despite playing so many balls, his team definitely seems to be in trouble at the moment. Now it remains to be seen how Marnus bats in the second innings of the Australian team match.
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