News Summary

• Travis Head played an innings nobody at Perth Stadium will soon forget.
• Head was only opening the batting because of Usman Khawaja's back concerns, but his promotion was an accidental masterstroke.
• He obliterated the nervous tension which has surrounded this match and turned it into a celebration.
• When Head was eventually out for 123 from 83 balls, he held command over the entirety of Perth Stadium.
• Test cricket has never looked like this before.
• Neither side managed an innings of 35 overs.
• The match ended comfortably inside two days, and the team that looked most likely to win for much of it lost by eight wickets.