Nasser Hussain
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Appearances Over Time
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Both of them just coming into the side.
Bethel for the fourth test, Josh Tongue for the third.
We'll start with Tongue because that's really where the day started.
England, A, had a horrendous start because Ben Stokes went off after just 10 balls with an adductor strain.
He limped out to bat late in the day, but was obviously discomforted.
I can't see that he's going to take the field tomorrow.
So his tour is done, isn't it?
Well, he got him again.
That's the fifth time in first class cricket now, four times in Test cricket.
And he's another tick in the talent ID box for this current regime in the same way that Bethel was.
Because when Tongue was first picked from Worcestershire out of county cricket, I can't think of anybody who was saying, you know, Josh Tongue should be your man.
and yet now you'd probably say he's the first choice fast bowler, because he's now got, what, 15 wickets and 21s here in the Ashes, some helpful pitches, but he's done pretty well, and he clearly just worries Smith, doesn't he, with the angle that he creates from his arm, which is beyond the perpendicular.
So England had a pretty good morning, really.
They're not the last three wickets over in an hour or so.
And then we're 80 for one at lunch.
Well...
as an opener?
First of all, I thought it came back a long way.
I think it was a combination of the swing in the air and then it seemed to nip off the pitch as well.
So I didn't think it was a horrendous leave.