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David Wilson (68)
We should win tonight. It's of course nowhere near a sure thing but if you can't bowl a side out on a 5th day pitch with enough runs behind you that you can really attack, you're not going to win a lot of tests.
We could easily end up winning this test by 200+ runs which will paper over how close we came to disaster. If not for Smith or even just Siddle for sticking with him in the first innings we could have easily been smashed inside 3 days.
Even at the start of day 4 England were strong favourites. If we'd lost a few wickets in the first session we could have struggled to lead by much over 100 and England could have cantered home.
It's quite amazing how dramatically test matches can be turned within the space of a session.
That's the real beauty of test cricket.
Smith is simply the best. Congratulations to Wade - I didn't think he had it in him, but he didn't have to face Anderson and there are queries about the fitness of Ali and Woakes. Either way, I still think our chances would be enhanced had Labuschagne been included to bowl his leggies into the rough outside the RH's leg stump.