Jimmy Anderson a fairground attraction with Nevill’s the pick of his six wickets | Andy Bull

England’s record wicket-taker produces his best Ashes figures thanks to some of the forgotten arts of swing bowling

Step right up and try your luck! Four balls. All you’ve got to do is pick the right one to play. The first? Full and seaming away. An invitation to drive, which Peter Nevill rightly declined. It passed by wide of off stump. The second was a little shorter, but travelling along the very same line. Mindful that his team-mate Mitchell Marsh had just been suckered by a similar delivery, Nevill left this one alone too. The third he could push for two off his pads. It was the fourth that was the one.

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