ENG vs AUS | Twitter reacts to Salt's disbelief after succumbing for duck to Starc's pace and bounce

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Opening the batting in England is considered to be the hardest job in cricket which is why Phil Salt's explosive antics of late have been nothing short of a revelation. However, the veteran fell in uncharacteristic fashion on Tuesday after failing to contend with the menace that is Mitchell Starc.

Some rapid knocks in the middle order provided Australia much-needed impetus in the latter half of their batting innings in the third ODI against England at Chester-le-Street to help set a commanding target of 305. Phil Salt and Ben Duckett walked out to bat in response and found themselves on the receiving end of a stellar spell from new-ball gun Mitchell Starc. The left-arm quick bowled four overs with the shiny Kookaburra, managing one maiden and scalping both the openers while only conceding just 17 runs. While the numbers themselves tell quite the story, the manner in which he dispatched Salt truly elucidates the sheer threat of one of the all-time greats.

Starc managed to find some swing under the lights and began with six dot balls to Salt, including a couple play and misses. The battle resumed in the third over and the Aussie pacer extracted another timid defence from the opener to further stamp his authority. Majorly going full until that point to extract some swing, Starc changed tactics with his ensuing effort and surprised the opener with a back-of-a-length ball angling into his hip from over the wicket. Salt was clearly taken aback by both the pace and bounce, and could only manage an instinctive swipe at the white rock that lobbed off his willow and straight into the hands of Matthew Short at short midwicket.

Starc was unsurprisingly ecstatic at having dismissed the explosive batter while Salt stood his ground in shock, unable to believe he had been outdone by sheer speed. Twitterati wsa equally suprisied as they took to social media to express their reactions.

Too early

The limit

Destructor

On fire

Never works

Too poor

Not this time

Poor performance vs elites

Lol

Time waster

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