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Ashes Daily: All eyes turn to the Oval

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The Mental Fatigue of Australia's Tour

Australia came into this summer looking at the World Test Championship final first. I'm not sure if fatigue is there in terms of the matches that have been played, because Australia's bowlers haven't actually had to bowl that many overs compared to what you might usually. There might be something about just the mental exhaustion of being in the middle of a high-stakes, high-pressure, high-attentioned long tour for a period of time. This isn't ducking over to New Zealand for three weeks to play a couple of test matches. This is a couple of months that they've been here,. some of them coming off the back of the IPL and coming off the India test

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