3rd Test: Australia vs England
Two-nil down with three to play; the Three Lions like a challenge…but this is a humdinger!
Sports betting fans expected a tight contest between two closely matched teams. With not much to choose between the bowling attacks, Australia have one world-class batsman and home advantage, against England with two. But the betting tips predicting an epic series are in danger of dissipating if neither Joe Root nor Alastair Cook scores big at the WACA.
Aussie skipper Steve Smith’s superb century won the First Test, while both Cook and Root failed, and betting odds of 1.50 for another home win in Perth hints at more of the same. England are at 4.30 to win and the draw at 4.50 and those odds look generous to me.
Okay, it’s two-nil, but England have been beset by off-field controversy, and the UK Crown Prosecution Service still can’t decide whether to charge the absent Ben Stokes, the one player who scares the pants off the Aussies!
If Stokes is available for the Fourth Test and if we go in at two-one, then we have a series on. The Three Lions showed enough at the Second Test to say they can win. They fluffed their chance, failing to score the 178 needed with six wickets standing. But to get in that position, they had fought back bravely, with quick bowlers James Anderson and Stuart Broad clearly rattling Smith as England skittled the Aussies in the second innings to set up a winning chance.
The gloves are off in Perth. If England can retain their discipline, on and off the field, while showing the same aggression, then we could still have an Ashes to remember.
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Disclaimer: Odds are correct at time of publish.
