Doubts over Poms\u2019 shock Stokes update as Ashes mystery brews<\/a><\/p>\nSo, Head thought he better acknowledge the surface for how good it has been to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a little in the mouth,\u201d Head told reporters with a laugh when asked if his \u2018kiss\u2019 of the pitch left grass in his mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got the rise out of the dressing room that I expected. I took the piss a bit, but the wicket\u2019s looked after me over the last few years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think I\u2019d get one (hundred at Adelaide Oval), so to get four is not too bad\u2026 I felt all right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Head century puts Australia in charge | 02:51<\/p>\n
There were nervous moments in the lead up at Head faced eight dot balls while stuck on 99.<\/p>\n
England brought the field up for Root and he was unable to penetrate, while he was dropped by Harry Brook in the gully off Jofra Archer at the other end.<\/p>\n
The Adelaide crowd took great delight in Brook\u2019s drop with the cheers louder than when other players have reached milestones in the game, but while the tension built around the ground, Head insisted that he remained calm.<\/p>\n
\u201cCould have been there for a while,\u201d Head said.<\/p>\n
Head strikes again with historic ton | 06:25<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say nervous. I was pretty good. I just had in the back of my mind that I got stumped off Joe Root at Lords trying to slog him out of the ground a few years ago, so I wasn\u2019t going to take too much risk. I thought I\u2019d be able to get one through the gap.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just going to bide my time. Went through it well. We got there eventually. Wasn\u2019t probably too long.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did joke with some of the boys that it could take while if this was the field.\u201d<\/p>\n
England drop Head on 99! | 00:21<\/p>\n
As for the atmosphere and sharing such a special moment with his Sheffield Shield teammate, the significance of the occasion was not lost on Head as he walked off embracing Carey.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnywhere I go I try to take the atmosphere in. You\u2019re not going to play forever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially at home, take that in. When I\u2019m walking out to bat, I always take it in.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs your innings goes on, you\u2019re sort of looking into the crowd, you\u2019re pretty close here in Adelaide, so I can normally see my mates on the terrace.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Travis Head smashes home ground 100! | 01:08<\/p>\n
The Saturday crowd will go into overdrive tomorrow morning if Head can push for a double ton and Carey can chases a second century of the match.<\/p>\n
It would be a remarkable feat from the gloveman and Head said he ensured they got through to the close of play on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s playing well. He probably kept me up-and-about there those last 45 minutes, I started waver a bit. I was pretty stuffed,\u201d Head said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t really talk much, but you could sense his energy at the crease and in between overs to get to stumps \u2026 he kept me going out there, and it was nice to walk off with him at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis Head has admitted that he \u201ctook the piss a bit\u201d as he shared the inspiration behind his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[18761,64,63,689,190605,29465,196036,740,196038,196033,76112,196037,195827,196040,196041,113273,196035,17066,196034,47483,677,196039,28637,195824,85,18784,44867],"class_list":["post-358825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-alex-carey","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-gloveman","tag-australian-superstar","tag-century-celebration","tag-cricket","tag-customary-raise","tag-dot-balls","tag-evening-session","tag-favouritism-stakes","tag-head-century","tag-head-strikes","tag-hilarious-admission","tag-hometown-hero","tag-impressive-batting-performance","tag-joe-root","tag-kiss-century-celebration","tag-michael-clarke","tag-oceania","tag-quartet-club","tag-sir-donald-bradman","tag-smashes-home","tag-sports","tag-steven-smith","tag-travis-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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