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Australia’s cricketers head to Durham with an historic 7-0 whitewash of their one-day series against England firmly within their grasp.
No team has ever swept a seven-match series, but Tim Paine, the stand-in wicketkeeper-batsman whose maiden international century led Australia to a 111-run victory and a 6-0 lead at Trent Bridge on Thursday, says the word whitewash has barely passed the tourists’ lips.
“We’ll be talking about the seventh game and how we’re going to go about winning it,” Paine said.
“We haven’t spoken about being 4-0 up, 5-0 up, it’s about every game and trying to do as well as we can each game.
“It would be very, very pleasing to go 7-0.”
The Australians have completely outclassed England all series and the home side have just one more chance to salvage a bit of pride.
The ever-composed England captain, Andrew Strauss, could barely contain his frustration following his team’s latest defeat.
“Sitting around in a team room having a chat about it is not going to solve anything,” Strauss said.
“What is going to solve it is a couple of guys standing up and showing the necessary character to go out and turn things around.
“That’s the only way it can happen and our players have got to do it, it’s as simple as that.”
The thought of being on the wrong end of history and losing 7-0 is obviously distasteful to Strauss, but the damage has been done.
“Six-nil is bad enough, to be honest with you,” he said.
“We’ve got one more opportunity to show our calibre as a side. We need to take that opportunity.”
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