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Hello and welcome to live coverge of day three at the SCG. There’s a big first session comi- ah, I can’t be bothered. Sure, the first session could shape the rest of this match, and tell us whether Travis Head is going to make a third matchwinning century of the series, but it’s impossible to escape the end-of-term feeling that has pervaded this Test so far.
We’re used to dead rubbers in Ashes series, particularly when England play in Australia. This feels flatter than the rest, probably because we expected so much more this time. There isn’t even the jeopardy of a potential whitewash; the series will either end 4-1 or 3-2 to Australia.