Overview
- TV cameras showed the England fast bowler carrying a pillow into the team area before play on Day 3 of the second Test in Brisbane.
- Matthew Hayden called it “a shocking look” on Channel 7 and said it would steel batters to dig in.
- Simon Katich agreed and referenced ongoing questions about Archer’s durability, noting his 15 Tests in six years.
- Ricky Ponting recounted seeing Archer with the item and a brief exchange with Ben Duckett about it.
- Australia, who resumed at 6-378 after England’s 334, extended the innings through a 50-plus ninth-wicket stand by Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland to reach 511.