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CRICKET Confidential takes a different view of the third day of the second Ashes Test in Adelaide, as Australia blows the game wide open.
SMILING ASSASIN
Joe Root batted beautifully for his 87 on Sunday as Mitchell Johnson, for the first time all series, met some resistance from England's batsmen.
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Johnson has feasted on confrontation throughout his two Test blitzkrieg, but when he tried to get Root engaged in some verbals on Sunday, all he got back was the flash of the Ellen DeGeneres lookalike's pearly whites.
So it turns out, Root's smile is as as poweful as his cover drive.
You started to wonder if a good natured batsman might just be Super Mitch's kryptonite.
Joe Root refused to take Mitchell Johnson's bait in a well made 87. Photo: Ryan Pierse Source: Getty Images
SHAZAM TURNS TO SNAIL
For a time during the first and second sessions, Root and Kevin Pietersen looked set to stage the kind of partnership to have the Aussies mulling Faf du Plessis's amazing escape in Adelaide last year.
But while things were going like clockwork with bat in hand, Root and KP weren't quite in sync when it came to celebrating their small victories.
Always the cool customer, KP's a regular exponent of the mid-pitch shazam favoured by the great West Indies sides of the 80s and 90s.
Root's more of a preppie - inclined to roll out an open palm for a quick slap or a handshake.
But it gets a bit messy when the two differing methods come together.
Call it the snail, call it the pineapple - it's just one more thing the English need to work out in the sheds.
Kevin Pietersen and Joe Root mess up their celebration. Source: FoxSports
TWEETS OF THE DAY
After predicting a 5-0 whitewash in England's favour, former British newspaper editor and current talk show host in America Piers Morgan hasn't had an awful lot to gloat about.
But that hasn't stopped the prolific Twit from sledging every current and former Aussie cricketer he can think of, and on Sunday he might have taken the banter a little bit too far.
After suggesting the England side show a bit more ticker in facing Mitchell Johnson, Morgan amped up the bravado by accepting a challenge to face one of the fastest bowlers of all time.
Even then, he managed to make out that he was a Test quality batsmen.
Amazing stuff!
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Duff Man and friends enjoy a beer on day four at the Adelaide Test.
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