He’s bespectacled, shortish, seems serious, even studious, has played just 14 first class games, and was a last-minute replacement for injured off-spinner Nathan Lyon.
But Victorian off-spinner Todd Murphy emerged as the unlikely hero after Australia managed to retrieve some sort of level standing in the final couple of hours of the second day of the Fifth Ashes Test at The Oval.
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Andrew Clark is a former editor of The Sun-Herald and Australian Business. He was a correspondent in Europe and North America, a political correspondent in Canberra and has been a journalist for more than 55 years. Email Andrew at aclark@afr.com.au
