On a sunny weekend in Queensland, tourists will flock to the wineries of South Burnett to sample the produce.<\/b><\/p>\n
But true connoisseurs will have looked to the Gabba, for the finest vintage in the state was at the crease for Australia.<\/p>\n
Mitchell Starc, closing on his 36th birthday, shows no sign of slowing down, taking delight in grinding England’s hopes into the Brisbane dirt.<\/p>\n
Having taken 6-75 in England’s innings, adding to his match figures of 10-113 in the first Test, Starc arrived at the crease on day two and took the game away from England.<\/p>\n
At the time of his arrival, Australia held a first-innings lead of 49. When he departed, 34 overs later, it was at 157 and the tourists were staring firmly down the barrel of another defeat.<\/p>\n
While England’s tailenders may favour an aggressive approach, Starc was more stoic, playing shorter lengths on merit and punishing the fuller ball in his 141-ball 77.<\/p>\n
His strike-rate touched 200 to anything pitched up by England’s seamers, but back-of-a-length balls only went at 61 – marginally higher than his career rate of 49 to those deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a sunny weekend in Queensland, tourists will flock to the wineries of South Burnett to sample the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-218335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115671973615437090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}