Despite the upcoming second Test also being a pink-ball match, it’s debatable whether England’s Test batters would have benefited significantly from being here. <\/p>\n
The match was low key, played in gentle surroundings and with none of the feverish intensity expected at the Gabba.<\/p>\n
The PM XI’s attack was willing but inexperienced, apart from 41-year-old former Australian seamer Peter Siddle. The other four pace bowlers on show had six first-class wickets between them.<\/p>\n
The weather conditions will be completely different in Brisbane too. It was 12 degrees centigrade when the game finished – Tim Paine, the coach of the home team, was wrapped in a blanket as he watched on.<\/p>\n
Tongue had a solid workout on the first day. He bowled with control and good pace in his 16 overs and although he went wicketless, he had two catches dropped.<\/p>\n
Bethell, however, missed the chance to make the most of a good batting pitch. He fell to a tame dismissal against a bowler who is yet to make his first-class debut.<\/p>\n
Bethell made an untroubled start against the off-spin of Nathan McSweeney, and Siddle. He took two boundaries off Siddle through the offside, one cut through backward point, the other guided to deep third.<\/p>\n
He then pushed at a ball in the channel outside off-stump against the tall left-arm pace bowler Campbell Thompson and feathered a low catch through to wicketkeeper Joel Curtis.<\/p>\n
Bethell has only passed fifty once in the nine white, red and pink-ball innings he has played since leaving the UK in early November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the upcoming second Test also being a pink-ball match, it’s debatable whether England’s Test batters would have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-291545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}