Mitchell Starc headlined several encouraging performances against Sri Lanka, but the Ashes series is still a long way off
Walking past Manuka Oval on one of Canberra’s many circular avenues, with the heat still thick and the sun prominent at 7pm, you could hear chanting and shouting in the low thrum of men’s voices spilling through the low grandstands to compete with passing traffic in the street beyond.
It was a toss of the coin as to whether those voices belonged to the Australian Test team or the Manuka ground staff, groups who had equal reason to feel a mixture of triumph and relief after Australia had finished up against Sri Lanka with a 2-0 series win played out on a very decent surface. Both groups were under pressure coming into the match, and both acquitted themselves well.
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