A searing Mitchell Starc revived memories of the WACA pitch at its fearsome best when he delivered the fastest recorded delivery in Test history on Sunday. The radar gun showed Starc had hit 160.4 km/h when he speared in a thundering yorker to New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor shortly before 3pm local time. Taylor defended the thunderbolt well as Starc cranked up his pace from an earlier delivery of 155km/h with the second new ball in a probing spell where he was unfortunate to not have Brendon McCullum and Taylor dismissed. Starc's searching spell came after the second new ball needed to be...
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