Marcus Harris becomes Anderson’s victim for slow hitting – Ricky Ponting AUS vs ENG
Hosts Australia continue to dominate the Ashes series. The Kangaroos scored 267 runs in the first inning to take an 82 run lead over England on the second day of Test 3 in Melbourne. England had scored 185 runs in their first innings. Starter Marcus Harris was instrumental in leading Australia to this score, which played the highest innings of 76 runs. England’s veteran bowler James Anderson put an end to Harris’s innings. Commenting on Harris’s hitting, former captain Ricky Ponting said the starter was hitting slow before he was fired, so he took the brunt of coming out.
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Ponting told cricket.com.au: “This is definitely his best test inning, but he had to work hard to get there. When he reached his half century after that, he slowed down his scoring pace. He became a victim of Anderson “.
Harris scored 76 against England’s bowling attack led by James Anderson.
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He had his first fifty in 17 innings. He also scored his first half century in the ashes. He shared a 61-race partnership with Travis Head to help Australia take the lead in the Boxing Day Test.
Ponting said: “He started hitting just before he left, which the bowlers started putting pressure on him and he finally came out and went back to the pavilion.”
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