Result updates from the fourth day of the second test

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It’s so easy to keep saying ‘Oh, we’re so unlucky; We’ve thrown a few of them away; We played some bad shots; This and that “but we actually need to find a way to put some kicks on the board as a group,” he said.

“If we knew why the meltdowns happened, we would stop them, but hopefully we can put in some performances as a team.

“It was very frustrating. To put ourselves in a situation where we can get close to them and then lose eight wickets is very disappointing.

“We can talk about guys who failed but in the end Roti or I should have kept getting a big hundred and taking the pressure off these guys.

“We can talk about taking 20 wickets as well but in Australia there are also big rounds that win Test matches. In the last Test, Ruti and I were in a position to score big hundreds but we didn’t. We were in the same position here. Both times we found short as a multiplication unit.

Malan has just returned to the world’s top 20 after a run of low scores for Babar Azam, but perhaps that’s reflected in Perth’s 140th in the 2017-18 Ashes trip as a career highlight.

At 34, and four games back, he never thought it would happen after three years in exile, he thirsts for another.

“The hundreds test is not easy to get to, so getting to 80 two straight runs and getting out — quietly this time — is frustrating,” he said.

“When someone walks in, whether you’re in good shape, or not fit, or whatever, we need to go ahead and make sure we get a big one. Marnus Labuschagne did it for them this time and Travis Head did it last time. A job well enough to make it valuable.”

Seymour Mitchell Stark, who led the attack at home in the absence of injured Josh Hazelwood and isolated captain Pat Cummins, was very blameless about Smith’s decision not to unleash him again by sending the England opener on the spot.

“I’m not the captain, Smithy is very happy with the way he wanted to go, so there wasn’t much chatting,” he said.

“His ways are well set and he knows which direction he wants to go. In terms of where he is now, we hold all the cards in terms of when we want to play and how far we want to go. We have a lot of options on the table.”

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