When Head arrived at the crease on the second day, he came spotting a new moustache. Head floundered for Sussex last summer, and perhaps only won out over Usman Khawaja because of his relative youth: at 27, he is seven years Khawaja’s junior. His recall for this series was contentious.
In his last Test series, against India a year ago, Head eked out 62 runs in 158 balls in three innings and was then dropped. His response has generally been to accumulate rather than dash, scoring at under one run every two balls and almost invariably earning the description ‘nuggety’. Over his 19 previous Tests, Travis Head has been a cricketer whose place is seldom far from scrutiny. Instead, Gilchrist had an unlikely impersonator at the Gabba. The hope, perhaps, was that Carey would assume the Gilchristian role as a left-handed swashbuckler reordering the feel of Test matches from the middle order.
Leach's average of 24.7 to right-handers in Tests soars to 60.9 against lefties - a major worry given Australia have four in their top sevenīefore the first Test in Brisbane, Adam Gilchrist presented a new baggy green cap to debutant Alex Carey. In one brutal session, Travis Head may have hit Jack Leach out of the Ashes
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