Mitchell Starc took 5 wickets (Photo: PTI)

Mitchell Starc 7 Wickets: There was neither Pat Cummins nor Josh Hazlewood in the Australian team… In such a situation, the entire responsibility was on the shoulders of Mitchell Starc alone, which he fulfilled very well. Mitchell Starc bowled so lethally in the first innings of the Perth Test against Australia that the England team was unable to score runs. He single-handedly took not one, two, three, four or five, but 7 wickets of England. During this devastating bowling, Mitchell Starc did something which he had never done before in his 14-year Test career.

That fatal spell of Mitchell Starc

Mitchell Starc started writing the story of his wickets from the very first over of the match. The impact of his havoc on England was evident from the very first spell he bowled in the first session. Mitchell Starc took 3 wickets for 17 runs in 6 overs in the first spell, which included the wickets of both the openers i.e. Jack Crilly and Ben Duckett. Apart from these, he took the third wicket of Joe Root in the first spell. Stark’s havoc was such that even the accounts of Crowley and Root could not be opened.