Stuart Broad left Australia in absolute shambles on Day 1 of fourth Ashes Test
Numbers Game
Australia’s dismal score...
60 Australia’s total is their lowest in an Ashes Test since their 58 in Brisbane in 1936.
47 Australia have only once been out for fewer against any side (47 v South Africa in Cape Town in 2011) since that 1936 game.
14 Never before have extras been top scorer in an innings in an Ashes Test. And it was only the third time they have even been top scorer in an Australian innings.
...and the speed it happened
18.3 No team has ever been bowled out in fewer than 18.3 overs in the first innings of a Test match.
7 It was the also the seventh fewest overs in which a team has ever been bowled out in any innings of a Test.
stuart Broad’s astonishing figures
8-15 Only two men have taken cheaper eight-wicket hauls in Tests: George lohmann, who took 8-7 v South Africa in 1896 and Johnny Briggs, who took 8-11 in 1889.
1956 Broad now has the third-best figures for England in Ashes history - only Jim laker’s 10-53 and 9-37, both at Old Trafford in 1956, can top them.
1994 Broad’s 8-15 is his best bowling figures, beating the 7 for 44 he took v New Zealand at lord’s in 2013. They are also the best figures for England since Devon Malcolm’s 9-57 against South Africa in 1994.
TWEETS
Alistair Campbell (@Campbellclaret)
The Aussies are on a bloody death wish here. Five wicket haul for @StuartBroad8 by 1140. Utterly absurd
lewis Brooks (@lBrooks11)
If you want to know what it feels like to be an Australian Batsman, find a large field, walk to the middle, Stop then walk back
Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan)
In affectionate remembrance of Australian cricket, which is currently dying at Trent Bridge. RIP.
Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats)
04W24W0W04100000W40000110W020000401000W000000000101000011W0011200010040040000W1W30000000000000400000000000001004W: Aus innings in one tweet.