Quicks

Bangladesh’s main finger-spinners, Mehidy Hasan Miraz and Shakib, took six wickets for only 55 runs, while the quicks hit the pitch hard and created awkward angles with pace variations and clever use of crease.

Family photos hang on the wall of the Quicks’ home on Capitol Hill.

Bairstow will be working on his batting during a net session at Durham today when he faces England quicks Ben Stokes and Mark Wood in preparation for a lively West Indies attack.

India's current crop are made of sterner stuff, as Australia's quicks learned two years ago when they were battered into submission, admittedly on docile tracks which did not suit the home side's strengths.

Missing all three of their first-choice ODI quicks, New Zealand were now under the pump in the death overs.

The question among the quicks is who will support the frontline four of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and James Pattinson.

Wallace said along with the four quicks he would also include off-spinning all-rounders Roston Chase and Rahkeem Cornwall in the final XI for the opening Test – a move designed to also boost the Windies’ batting.

A day to remember at the Gabba as Marnus Labuschagne posted his maiden Test century before our Aussie quicks claimed three wickets in the evening session pic.

But Pakistan coped and for all the talk about England's quicks, it was off-spinner Moeen who took the first three wickets.

At the start of Kohli’s innings, quicks need to bowl at a fourth-stump line and make him play on the back foot.

Coach Ottis Gibson admitted Rabada and fellow youngster Lungi Ngidi might be “shocked” by the tough conditions for quicks on the Island but Rabada feels primed.

The Indian bowlers backed up Cheteshwar Pujara's efforts on Day 1. Travis Head remains unbeaten on 61 and his was the only act of resistance in an Australia batting line up that crumbled to India's quicks and Ravichandran Ashwin.

With both teams bursting at the seams with quality quicks, the four-match Test series between South Africa & Australia could be decided by fast bowling.